What "I'm getting at" is how many times has the WA, or any other thing like it, been changed to suit SWA?? (DFW should have never even been built and we'd have been spared the WA) And now SWA is unhappy (again) with what they just signed?? Sounds like it...
Settle down, Flopgut, before you blow a gasket or something.
I get your "pencil" remark now, and the answer to "how many times" has some law been changed to "suit SWA," is one: the WA itself. You remember, the anti-competitive law that was forced on us over our objections by another airline's political stooge. The one that was created solely to
change existing law specifically to hobble SWA and prevent competition,
after we had prevailed in every court in the land, Texas and federal, that the other parties had dragged us to. So yeah, after nearly 30 years of being yoked by it, we
lobbied to change the anti-Southwest law.
And so then all the parties then actually negotiated, and agreed to the compromise in 2008 that became the law that essentially got rid of the WA, with newer and narrower limitations. So I doubt you'll see
SWA trying to change that law, since they actually
agreed to these terms for a change, rather than them being forced on us.
It was
me specifically, not my airline, who suggested to Andy that he have
his airline lobby to change the law. And not to suit
Southwest, but rather to help the
other, hypothetical airlines that he claimed he was trying to "enable."
Who cares what ALPA thinks. A job created to fly the jobless around is all deregulation has amounted to. The cross section of humanity participating in air travel these days is a sad one. We spread more hate, disease and enable the participants of lowly or futile acts than empower any amount of anything positive. This huge system of mega airports and foolishly low airline tickets probably should have been preceded by some consideration of what passengers intentions, or their necessity might have been.
Well said, Comrade Flop. The government
should decide everything for the "cross section of humanity" that inhabits the US. They
should decide who has reason enough to travel, and then pick who actually gets to do it, along with how much they should pay. Some people just don't have a good enough reason to fly--they just
think they do. Idiots.
And you're right; they certainly should never have built another, bigger airport in the Dallas area, despite the Texas population nearly tripling from 9.6 million in 1960 to 27.5 million in 2015. With the government only allowing the party faithful to travel, Love Field would surely be sufficient.
Thank God we have Flopgut (and the government) around to tell us, and give us, what we really need.
Bubba
