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Southwest takes aim at the Wright Amendment.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 06-JUN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 786 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Two congressmen from Texas last month introduced a bill to repeal the Wright Amendment, a controversial legality that for 26 years has prohibited long-haul airline service using anything but smaller planes from operating out of Southwest Airlines' Dallas Love Field base of operations.

If the new legislation is approved, Southwest would add a substantial number of nonstop flights from the airport to many of its stations beyond the current perimeter, which encircles Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi and states that border Texas.

The airline for years had disagreed with the Wright Amendment but did not actively fight for its repeal. It began to take a more aggressive stance late last year, however, as a result of two concurrent developments:...

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