Alaska confirms it will leave the airport in May.
An Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 landing from a test flight at Paine Field. (Photo: AirlineGeeks | Katie Zera)
Dallas Love Field will lose an airline later this year, with Alaska exiting the airport in the coming months. Delta and Southwest will be left as the only two airlines regularly serving the North Texas airport.
As first noted by Ishrion Aviation and later confirmed by an Alaska spokesperson, the Seattle-based carrier will end service to Love Field on May 14. The airline will consolidate its operations at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
“DFW is centrally located with easy access to all points across the Dallas Metroplex and allows our guests to connect beyond Dallas to cities in the Midwest and along the East Coast with our codeshare partner American Airlines,” an airline spokesperson said in a statement. “Guests who have purchased tickets for flights between Seattle and Dallas Love Field after May 14 will be reaccommodated on flights to and from DFW.”
Virgin America first began serving Love Field in 2014, with coast-to-coast flights to markets including New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Alaska later acquired Virgin America in 2016. Operations at Love Field were scaled back to just five weekly flights to Seattle.
A Virgin America A319 at Dallas Love Field (Photo: AirlineGeeks | Parker Davis)
From Dallas/Fort Worth, Alaska currently serves both its Seattle and Portland, Oregon, hubs multiple times per week.
Of the remaining two airlines, Southwest’s headquarters is adjacent to Love Field, which is the carrier’s fifth-largest airport by number of daily flights. Delta also serves the airport with up to 14 daily round-trip flights to its Atlanta hub.
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