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The major change I would suggest is to move some airlines like Spirit, Sun country, and Virgin American to E or C gates (with Southwest or Jetblue)
You need to have common use gates in all terminals....not just in one. From an airport optimization strategy if you have common gates they can be shared by airlines that usually share the terminal. An airline that does only a daily flight can instead lease a gate by the hour on the when they fly in/out.
Because of code sharing you will need to have some sort of terminal link system. It could be just shuttle buses like what Newark has.
Even after the merger...American will still likely have code share flights with Alaska.
alaska would likely share more than just one gate with Delta
In Seattle, SEATAC is in the process of a major gate change of airlines. Part of the strategy is to have common use gates throughout the airport that are shared by different airlines.