Officials with Southwest Airlines and San Antonio International Airport have reached an out-of-court settlement in their long-simmering legal fight over gate assignments.
Under the agreement, details of which were shared Thursday in an emailed statement, Fort Worth-based Southwest will gain a minimum of six gates in the airport: three in the $1. 7 billion Terminal C, set to open in 2028, and three in the renovated Terminal B. Sign up Southwest filed the suit against the airport and Director Jesus Saenz in 2024, arguing that he promised the carrier gates in the state-of-the-art Terminal C multiple times between 2021 and 2024. Instead, the airline remained stuck in the oldest, smallest terminal in the airport, Terminal A, Southwest argued in its suit.
Company officials maintained the terminal's 75-foot-wide concourse prevented it from growing at its planned rate.