DALLAS, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Southwest Airlines announced Friday that it will decline an incentive offer to begin flights out of DFW International Airport in North Texas.
Southwest, based at Dallas Love Field for more than 30 years, said the DFW offer would not be a good fit for the discount airline's style of quick-turn-around service.
The airline also said splitting business between the two North Texas airports would cause a further loss of business at the Dallas airport.
Southwest is pushing for Congress to lift a federal rule that prevents Love Field-based flights from flying beyond nearby states, a measure passed to protect DFW from competition.
DFW officials said that other airlines have expressed an interest in the incentive offer to fill 22 gates that Delta Air Lines will abandon by the end of this month.
On Jan. 6, DFW announced up to $22 million in financial aid and other incentives to lure other airlines to the big airport between Dallas and Fort Worth.
