Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma International) has no plans to give up its slots at Dallas Love Field despite the recently announced deal to lease a total of 20 slots at New York La Guardia and Washington National, which it used among others for Dallas services, to Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field), Air Transport World has reported.
The leasing of twelve slots at La Guardia and eight at Washington National is set to commence in October 2018.
Southwest Airlines is already the dominant carrier at Dallas Love Field, where it controls sixteen out of twenty gates and leases a further two from United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare), which stopped serving the airport in 2015. According to the ch-aviation capacity module, it also has an 87.8% market share by frequency out of this airport.
Alaska Airlines, for its part, currently operates 120 weekly departures out of Dallas Love Field, which puts it as the second-largest airline at the airport with an 8.8% market share by frequency. The airline controls two gates at the airport.
Southwest Airlines is currently involved in a protracted legal dispute with Delta Air Lines over gate access at the airport, in which the full-service carrier is trying to challenge the low-cost's domination of the facility.
