Southwest is fighting now to repeal the Wright amendment, which would allow Southwest to fly long-haul flights out of Love Field in Dallas. Love, like Midway, is a small airport with little buffer between it and city neighborhoods and streets.
If Southwest is allowed to expand its traffic out of Love, with other airlines thus doing the same because Southwest refuses to fly out of the larger airport, it's just a matter of time till what we see tonight in Chicago happens in Dallas.
I just re-read the article. Here are the correct numbers:
The landing fees at Love Field are 35 cents per 1,000 pounds. At DFW Airport, the fees are $4.94, which is lower than what airport managers originally reported.
Ah, Bachman Lake - at the end of the runway at Love Field. In college, we used to park out there and sometimes go over the fence and lie down on the end of the runway for the sensation of it. And planes were a LOT smaller then, a million years ago.
Baloney. Even if the idiotic Wright Amendment isn't repealed, Southwest would still fly out of Love, so increasing the number of flights only barely increases the risk of something that has only happened twice in SW Airline's HISTORY. The odds of it happening to another airline are also extremely small.
Especially considering that Love only gets ice a couple of times per year.