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(EL)Mitch Lowe of Salt Lake City is E-Ticketing at the counter of Southwest Airlines at DIA on Thursday. Southwest Airlines confirmed today that it has submitted a bid to acquire Denver-based Frontier Airlines. Southwest's nonbinding initial bid of "a minimum of $113.6 million" tops the proposed investment agreement of $108.7 million offered by Republic Airways Holdings. Hyoung Chang/ The Denver Post
(EL)Mitch Lowe of Salt Lake City is E-Ticketing at the counter of Southwest Airlines at DIA on Thursday. Southwest Airlines confirmed today that it has submitted a bid to acquire Denver-based Frontier Airlines. Southwest’s nonbinding initial bid of “a minimum of $113.6 million” tops the proposed investment agreement of $108.7 million offered by Republic Airways Holdings. Hyoung Chang/ The Denver Post
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A recent shuffle of airline gates at Denver International Airport puts Southwest Airlines in control of Concourse C.

On May 7, Southwest opened two new gates on Concourse C, and on May 27 it will add three more for a total of 17 gates.

Southwest, which has 129 daily nonstop flights from Denver to 42 destinations, will add 15 more daily Denver nonstop flights in August.

American Airlines moved Tuesday from three gates on Concourse C to three on Concourse A.

US Airways recently moved its two gates from C to B, joining its Star Alliance partners United and Continental.

Continental moved its three gates from Concourse A — where Frontier is the main tenant — to Concourse B.

The only Star Alliance member not on Concourse B is Luft hansa, which remains on Concourse A with other international carriers.

DIA amended its lease with United in a move that returned five United gates on Concourse B to the airport. Those gates were leased to US Airways and Continental. In return, DIA paid United $12.5 million.

The move gives DIA some breathing room as officials consider adding gate capacity.

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