That's not true. Every flight going through Love instead of DFW decreases the number of connection opportunities for passengers orginating at other airports.
The policy of having no interline baggage handling is an anticompetitive measure. I can't get a ticket from CRP to any New York City area airport through the Southwest online system. I might be tempted to fly Southwest from CRP to HOU and transfer to Air Tran to fly to to LGA via ATL, but the absolute refusal to offer interline baggage transfer even for an additional fee means I must get my baggage first from the baggage claim area and then check into the other flight. If the Southwest flight is delayed and I miss my other flight, I'm out the money I paid for that flight.
Back in the 1970's the Justice department investigated similar anticompetitive practices in the long distance telecommunications industry. Prior to the consent decree announced on January 1, 1982, AT&T would not allow competitive long distance companies to have the same 1+ access to their long distance service that AT&T enjoyed from the local Bell telephone companies. As a result of that consent decree, AT&T was required to let Bell customers specify the carrier of their choice of long distance companies that would be used when dialing 1+Area Code+telephone number. I see Southwest's refusal to offer any kind of interline services as being very similar to AT&T's policy of making competitive long distance services harder to access back in the 1970's.
Explain how you're making sense. Do you have the same complaint about Hobby Airport and Houston Intercontinental? You might be tempted to fly Southwest from Corpus to Houston Hobby and transfer to Air Tran at Houston Intercontinental? Or do you want to also force Southwest to fly exclusively out of Houston Intercontinental? Or reverse it to: You might be tempted to fly Southwest from Corpus to Houston Intercontinental and transfer to Air Tran at Houston Hobby?
You want interline baggage transfer even for a slight fee when the flights fly into separate airports that are over 20 miles apart?
The repeal vs not to repeal Wright really doesn't affect me now as I live in Oklahoma and it's been close to 7 years since I've flown anywhere.
You neglected the last part of my statement. Repeal of the Wright Amendment doesn't affect me since I don't fly anymore.
Why wouldn't you support repeal of the Wright Amendment where you and your luggage could fly into Dallas Love and then fly non-stop to La Guardia?
Your comparison of AT&T and the airlines doesn't really fly because 1 + area code were going to the same place using the same switching routes. It would be ridiculous for Southwest to transfer your luggage from Houston Hobby to Houston Intercontinental or from Dallas Love to DFW.