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Open skies: should the Wright Amendment be repealed?

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 31-OCT-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Congress is mulling options to repeal a 1979 federal law known as the Wright Amendment that makes it illegal to fly or advertise flights from Love Field to points beyond the four states surrounding Texas, plus Alabama, Mississippi and Kansas.

Two bills are moving through Congress that could lift the Wright Amendment restrictions: The Right to Fly Act (H.R. 2646), introduced in the House by Congressmen Jeb Hensarling and Sam Johnson with 41 cosponsors, and the American Right to Fly Act (S. 1424), introduced by Sen. John Ensign with eight cosponsors. Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-2nd District) is the sole Mississippi supporter on record. Sen. Trent Lott, who voted against the Wright Amendment in the late 1970s, "has always been philosophically opposed to it," said Lott's spokesperson...

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