When the battle over Love Field heated up again a few years ago (precipitated by Delta's near-desertion of DFW), DFW offered to build SWA its own terminal, essentially rolling out the red carpet to finally move all scheduled service out of Love Field as proposed in the Seventies. However, Southwest insisted that DFW was too big and too far away. Delays would prevent its successful business model from working. Love Field will now have a new terminal, and by 2014 all restrictions imposed on nonstop interstate service by the Wright Amendment will be removed after the cities of Dallas and Ft Worth, and SWA and American, settled on a compromise. Although route and capacity limits will be lifted, gate space will be capped at 20 (a reduction of 12), with 18 assigned to SWA. Now the USA's most successful LCC has begun service at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest (Airways, November 2009, December 2008, November 2005 December 2002). Southwest had been keen to gain access to ATL for some time, and opportunity arose with the purchase of AirTran Airways (Airways, April 2012 September 2011).
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