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American Airlines President Regrets Not Fighting Harder Over Dallas Love Field

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: Southwest Airlines headquarters employees celebrate the end of the Wright Amendment on October 13, 2014 at Dallas Love Field.  Southwest Airlines

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You can't always get what you want. American Airlines president thinks the airline handed Southwest a monopoly when American gave up its two gates at Dallas Love Field. And that merger concession, right in American's backyard, still rankles.

There's one nagging thing that American Airlines Group president Scott Kirby regrets about the 2013 settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that cleared the way for the US Airways-American Airlines merger -- the airline gave up too much at Dallas Love Field. "We gave Southwest a virtual monopoly on that airport," Kirby told attendees March 3 at the J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation and Industrials Conference in New York City. On the other hand, American could choose to expand transcontinental operations in the future at LaGuardia Airport, which Kirby

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