United will add flights to 10 new domestic destinations from O’Hare International Airport next year, routes the airline says were made possible by the additional gate space it won through the city’s airport gate reallocation process this fall.

United’s new destinations next year will include Santa Barbara, California; Eugene, Oregon; Paducah, Kentucky; and Rochester, Minnesota, among others. Service on the new routes will start next spring and summer.

United won five new gates under a “use it or lose it” provision in a lease agreement that United and its rival, American Airlines, signed with the city in 2018. Under the agreement, gates at the airport are reallocated based on an airline’s flying frequency the previous year.

United’s new gates have been the subject of a legal tug-of-war

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