LesliePHX
01-03-2005, 01:35 AM
Hey, good news for Southwest fans wanting to fly to Dallas! Southwest is going to push to get rid of the Wright Amendment in 2005!
Here's a story about it:
www.azbiz.com/articles/20...news02.txt (http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2004/12/21/front/news02.txt)
The Wright Amendment is a nasty piece of legislation that outlaws flights between Love Field, Southwest's hometown airport, and any state not adjacent to Texas. The 25-year-old law was intended to punish Southwest for not moving from Love Field to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport when DFW was built.
The law is really crazy ... if you go to Southwest's website and try to book a flight to Dallas from any city not in a Texas-adjacent state, it won't let you because they are not allowed. As soon as you select your departure city, Dallas disappears as one of the arrival city choices if the departure city isn't in a state adjacent to Texas. And it's all because of that crazy law.
What that has meant for me, living in Arizona, is that if I wanted to fly Southwest to Dallas, I had to book two separate round trips: a Phoenix-El Paso round trip and an El Paso-Dallas round trip, figuring out layover times, etc., myself. I have done this. But you wouldn't know it was possible from the website because Southwest is not allowed even to advertise that it's POSSIBLE to get to Dallas from a non-Texas-contiguous state.
Southwest has obviously thrived in spite of the law intended to hurt it, but in 2005, SWA is going to fight back! Good for them! Let's hope they win!
(If Southwest succeeds, maybe we could have a Dallas flightfest with everybody riding SWA from their non-Texas-contiguous cities to the city of LUV to celebrate. I would go to that. Just an idea ...)
Leslie
Here's a story about it:
www.azbiz.com/articles/20...news02.txt (http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2004/12/21/front/news02.txt)
The Wright Amendment is a nasty piece of legislation that outlaws flights between Love Field, Southwest's hometown airport, and any state not adjacent to Texas. The 25-year-old law was intended to punish Southwest for not moving from Love Field to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport when DFW was built.
The law is really crazy ... if you go to Southwest's website and try to book a flight to Dallas from any city not in a Texas-adjacent state, it won't let you because they are not allowed. As soon as you select your departure city, Dallas disappears as one of the arrival city choices if the departure city isn't in a state adjacent to Texas. And it's all because of that crazy law.
What that has meant for me, living in Arizona, is that if I wanted to fly Southwest to Dallas, I had to book two separate round trips: a Phoenix-El Paso round trip and an El Paso-Dallas round trip, figuring out layover times, etc., myself. I have done this. But you wouldn't know it was possible from the website because Southwest is not allowed even to advertise that it's POSSIBLE to get to Dallas from a non-Texas-contiguous state.
Southwest has obviously thrived in spite of the law intended to hurt it, but in 2005, SWA is going to fight back! Good for them! Let's hope they win!
(If Southwest succeeds, maybe we could have a Dallas flightfest with everybody riding SWA from their non-Texas-contiguous cities to the city of LUV to celebrate. I would go to that. Just an idea ...)
Leslie