If you mean takeoffs and landings, no. Remember a LARGE tenant just moved out.
My point is AA would not want WN to take those gates. They would rather have them empty for expansion due your comment below or to keep them empty to help them get lower lease from DFW
AA has more problems with getting a/c to gates on time. Tuesday evening--not a big travel day--we arrived from STL 20 minutes early. We then had to wait 35 minutes for a gate. 02JAN I worked a 32 minute flight from SAT to DFW. Waited over 1 hour for a gate.
Jim, this is so correct. You can hear the laughing when AA arrives early because now even the passengers know they won't be at the gate early. Again AA should want to keep WN at Love even without Wright to keep access to empty gates
Back to subject: NHBB started by envisioning AA doing INTL and long-haul heavy (by definition, you can't really do a transcon from the middle of the continent) from DFW and WN doing all domestic from DAL.
Two problems...
1. Forget the Wright Amendment, DAL is not capable of handling the volume of traffic that DFW handles. And, don't think for one minute that the simple folk of Highland Park would stand for that much additional noise and traffic that close to them.
2. The reason DFW exists as an International flight station is a little thing called
connecting passengers. AA domestic and AE funnel passengers to those INTL flights. Same relationship with CLT and USAIR, or IAH and CO. CLT, DFW, and Houston areas do not, of themselves, generate enough International O&D to justify the current level of INTL flying each enjoys. And, that's fine.
BUT...
Just try telling a passenger that he/she is going to fly into DAL, get on a bus, and ride 20 miles to DFW to continue their journey to Europe/Asia/South America, and we are going to "try" to get their luggage on that same bus and connecting flight. I think you will lose the sale to someone who flies into JFK or LAX or MIA.
And, don't even think that some sort of light rail system would solve the problem. As good as the light rail system is here in Dallas, the squabble over the routing and method of payment for an extension just to DAL from downtown has yet to be solved. Forget the "future" extension to DFW.
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There are about 30 gates at DAL with the master plan. Of those about 6 are at the Legend terminal. Flights will be limited no matter where the flights go. A plane to AMA is just as loud as a plane to LAX. I would even argue that WN737 are a lot quieter than RJ's CO flys out of DAL.
On connecting traffic I agree with you Jim one would not want to change airports, however AA currently sells many connection from LGA to JFK on international. If one books a DFW-Europe AAdvantage ticket often the only flights available are LGA/JFK connections
Finally AA could possibly still charge more on competing flights from DFW as AA does today with competing WN flights at Chicago(ORDvsMDW), and Houston (IAHvsHOU)
