[Sally'sConcerns]

Southwest has been flying out of Love Field for years. It's been their main hub for years too. Repealing the Wright Amendment won't mean there will be more accidents possible at Love Field. Part of the Wright amendment restricts SW or any other airlines from being able to have direct flights to airports in states that don't immediately border the Texas border.

 

http://www.fightwright.org/

 

The Wright Amendment is a FEDERAL LAW that was put in place a full six years after the opening of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to block long-haul flights out of nearby Love Field Airport. The sole purpose was to contain the then-small Southwest Airlines at Love Field while all the other airlines at DFW Airport figured out how to deal with deregulation which was causing airfare reductions across the rest of America.

 

 

http://www.keepdfwstrong.com/thefacts/background.html

 

Background

CREATION OF DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
As originally envisioned, the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth and their citizens joined together to design, finance, construct, build and support DFW International Airport. The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth adopted measures to orderly, efficiently and effectively phase out all other airports including Love Field, Red Bird, GSIA and Meacham Field from servicing any major airlines at those facilities and transferring all such activity to the new Regional Airport, which was later to be named DFW International Airport.

All airlines, except Southwest Airlines, moved their operations to DFW International Airport consistent with the cities' measures. In contrast, Southwest Airlines sued and won the limited right to fly “intrastate” (within Texas) service out of Love Field. From 1973 to 1978, Southwest Airlines only operated “intrastate” flights out of Love Field. In 1979, Southwest Airlines sought to fly “interstate” traffic out of Love Field over the objections of the City of Dallas and City of Fort Worth, DFW International Airport and other related constituent groups.

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The Wright Amendment was passed in order to provide protection for DFW back when DFW was a new airport. If you're interested in both sides of the fight about the Wright Amendment, I've provided links to 2 websites on opposing sides.

 

 

[Rte66]

Unless my memory is playing tricks on me (and it could very well be), wasn't Love Field turned into an entertainment complex for a while? I didn't live in Dallas, but I have a vague memory of that. Must have been before SW's lawsuit to put it back into service as an airport.

[Warriormom]

If Wright is repealed, do you think there will be more, less or the same amount of traffic at Love?

American is already looking into starting flights out of Love. The runways at Love are longer than those at Midway, but Love is surrounded by homes, business and major roads in a way that DFW isn't.