Posted on 07/25/2022 10:11:10 AM PDT by luvie
They absolutely wanted to shut down Love’s field.
Timeline of the Wright Amendment
Early 1960s: The Federal Aviation Administration declared Love Field in Dallas and Greater Southwest International Airport in Fort Worth unsuitable for expected future air traffic demands, refusing to provide continued federal funding
1964: The Civil Aeronautics Board ordered the two airports to merge in a single joint regional site, with the intent of rendering both Love Field and Greater Southwest International Airport inoperative
1965: Dallas and Fort Worth established an interim joint board to determine the new airport site; eventually settling on a site located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth – calling it Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
1968: Ground is broken for the new D/FW site. To make the new airport viable, each city agreed to restrict its own airports from commercial passenger service use, and all airlines serving the old airports at that time signed an agreement to relocate
1971: Southwest Airlines refused to stay out of Love Field as other airlines left, saying the move would affect their business model; Southwest then began service from Love Field to Houston and San Antonio
1972: Dallas, Fort Worth and the Airport Board are upset by Southwest’s insistence on being stationed at Love Field, and filed suit against Southwest
1973: U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Southwest, stating that as long as Love Field remained open as an airport, Southwest could do business there
1974: D/FW officially opens for business; Love Field faces a drastic dip in number of flights and decommissions most of its concourses
1978: The federal Airline Deregulation Act removed government control over fares and routes, encouraging airlines to compete freely and allowing new domestic carriers unrestricted entry into the marketplace
1979: Southwest Airlines delved into the larger market and planned to offer interstate service from Love Field. This move angered Fort Worth and D/FW
1979: To protect D/FW from losing business, Fort Worth Congressman Jim Wright pushed through the Wright Amendment, severely limiting Southwest’s non-stop flights within Texas and to the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico
1990s: D/FW International Airport’s annual air traffic exceeded its capacity
1996: A study suggested that repealing the Wright Amendment and reopening Fort Worth Alliance to passenger service would effectively provide D/FW with two reliever airports. D/FW refused
1997: Alabama Senator Richard Shelby passed the Shelby Amendment, further expanding Southwest’s business by adding Alabama, Kansas and Mississippi to the Wright zone
2004: Southwest CEO Gary Kelly calls the Wright Amendment “outdated and outmoded” and started attempts to repeal it, launching a massive public relations campaign. D/FW and American Airlines responded with their own campaign.
2005: Southwest threatened to leave Dallas unless the Wright Amendment was repealed
Oct 13, 2006: President George W. Bush signs a bill into law that fully repealed the Wright Amendment. Southwest, American, D/FW and the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth all agree to the repeal, but on several conditions, including that the Wright zone restrictions stay intact until 2014, lowering Love Field’s maximum gate capacity to 20 from 32 and keeping Love a domestic airport only
Oct. 17, 2006: Southwest announces that it will begin indirect connecting service between Love Field and destinations outside the Wright zone
May 2011: Southwest acquires AirTran Airways, which will give Southwest international destinations for the first time, but the Wright Amendment will bar nonstop flights to foreign destinations
Oct. 16, 2014: The Wright Amendment is slated to fully expire
If the 2nd amendment wasn’t unconstitutionally infringed the only “mass” shootings that would happen would be the public taking out a scumbag who thinks using people for target practice is a good idea.
“Suspect is Down” photos....
Howard Cosell: “Odufuwa is down! Odufuwa is down! And don’t think for a moment that was easy for me to say.”
He’s down ....
Thanks so much for that great classic video. One of my all time favorites. Woody Allen can’t be beat. Liked “Let me through. I’m from American television” which parts crowds everywhere.
Totally
Not so in Texas. But in airports……
She apparently arrived at the airport, went to a washroom, changed her clothes and emerged from the washroom with a gun which she propmptly pointed at the ceilong and began firing.
A security officer “shot her in the extemeties,” which is LEO nice speak for “ he shot her in the ass.”
She was taken to a hospital where she was promptly given an abortion.( sarc.)
gmta
There could be more potential perps waiting in the wings or a copycat.
Homesick Californian?
She should have BEEN an abortion.
Not really, but sometimes people just try their best to be the worst.
Not really. I suppose every gang has an outlier. Unfortunately, Texas will have to work to lose the stench of Uvalde.
She should have BEEN an abortion.>>>>
She came close. They shot her in the ass.
You can see the whole incident video here:
Thank you! That was awesome. The thing that totally amazed me, besides the officer’s quick action, is how fast people scattered and got down to the ground to make a harder target for her.
Once she absorbed a few ounces of lead in her a$$, she did not move. The officers thought she was playing dead and did not approach her. She lived because they did not hit an artery.
That first officer must put in regular time at the range.
So glad no one else was hurt.That was very lucky. She was not a killer, although she likely wanted to be. And the fact that she did not injure or kill anyone is also likely why she lived.
We really need red flag laws to intercept such gun toting women. ( sarc.)
I mean her husband should have told the police ahead of time that she was armed and likely to shoot someone because he was cheaing on her!See something say something! (sarc.)
Airports won’t be safe until they remove all guns from them and make them gun free zones ( snarc. sarc.)
LOL.
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