{"id":186109,"date":"2025-08-30T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186109\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:02:09","slug":"southwest-airlines-lawsuit-dismissed-in-dispute-over-san-antonio-airport-terminal-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186109\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines lawsuit dismissed in dispute over San Antonio airport terminal gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A judge has ruled against Southwest Airlines in its lawsuit involving the City of San Antonio and Aviation Director Jes\u00fas Saenz over gate assignments at the airport\u2019s future terminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Friday, Judge Xavier Rodriguez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/08\/20\/southwest-airlines-city-of-san-antonio-sit-in-limbo-after-federal-hearing-on-terminal-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/08\/20\/southwest-airlines-city-of-san-antonio-sit-in-limbo-after-federal-hearing-on-terminal-gates\/\">ordered the case to be closed<\/a>, granting the city\u2019s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The judge determined that Southwest Airlines did not present a strong enough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2024\/09\/27\/southwest-airlines-threatens-legal-action-against-city-of-san-antonio-as-oct-1-deadline-looms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2024\/09\/27\/southwest-airlines-threatens-legal-action-against-city-of-san-antonio-as-oct-1-deadline-looms\/\">claim<\/a> to proceed with the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Southwest\u2019s lead counsel, Lawrence Morales II, had argued that the city penalized the airline for scoring low on certain criteria, including the absence of a club lounge. He said this contributed to Southwest being excluded from Terminal C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Morales also accused the city of allegedly engaging in a \u201cbait and switch\u201d tactic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The court found that no new facts could change the legal outcome at this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As a result, the court rejected Southwest\u2019s request for a partial ruling, and the lawsuit was dismissed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has ruled against Southwest Airlines in its lawsuit involving the City of San Antonio and Aviation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,23772,7203,18817,358,522,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-186109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-san-antonio-international-airport","11":"tag-sanantonio","12":"tag-southwest-airlines","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-transportation","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115115258275118417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}