Delta Does Dallas
__ Caption: The newly installed (old) sign pointing travelers to Dallas Love Field. Email: mpeterson@dallasnews.com Phone: 2149778793 OrigName: 1364846089_0887923001364846089_0.JPG Name: lovefieldsign.JPG Byline: Eric Sheffield/Staff Submitter: Matt Peterson Timestamp: 2013-04-01 14:54:49 Section: METRO CENTRAL_NMC
Courtesy: Aviationblog.Dallasnews.com
Two years after Southwest Airlines set up shop on Delta Air Lines’ home turf here in Atlanta, Delta announced it’s returning the favor by expanding at Dallas-Love Field.
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“It really is more about us seeing the opportunity to bring in some new competition to Love Field,” says Delta spokesman Trebor Banstetter, playing down the move as any sort of retribution. 
Southwest operates nine out of ten flights at Love Field, which is closer to downtown Dallas than Dallas Ft. Worth International.
In all, the expansion will add 18 flights between Dallas-Love and Delta’s hub cities. That includes two more daily flights from Atlanta.
Banstetter says Delta hasn’t assigned an aircraft to the expanded route.
Delta asked the U.S. Department of Justice to allow it to bid on Love Field gates as part of the American/USAirways merger.
The additional flights begin next October.
Southwest had no comment.
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