Solution to the Wright Amendment fight

[seefive]

It's not about me getting my way. It's about what is going to happen. And that's nothing. SWA will be forced to stay at Love with the WA or go to DFW. If they come to DFW and crush AA, so be it. That would be fair. To change the rules at Love with SWA's virtual monopoly there wouldn't be.

 

[OffHot]

ERJ-Hub and spoke airlines are real airlines? How about BR airlines. You also must me upset with AA and the rest of the legacy carries for trying to circumvent the law by asking congress to change pension funding so that they also may get a competitve advantage, else they just turn it over to the taxpayers. The WA was just one in many attempts to ground SWA, we survived to the dismay of many. We can't shut down AA at DFW nor would we try, but we can compete out of DAL even if AA wants to play over here. Neither airline wants to go head to head, but if they must they would rather do it in thier own backyard. The DFW board, just wants the money, money they have already spent.

 

[seefive]

Enigma,
You assume that because some believe SWA shouldn't be allowed to change the rules means we don't like SWA. SWA is just trying to get a competitive advantage. I do like SWA. I admire the management and enjoy flying on the airline (which i do regularly). I assume you like SWA too. I'm sure you'd love to have a job there as well.

 

[OffHot]

Enigma doens't work for us?

 

[enigma]

Enigma doens't work for us?

No I don't. But not for the lack of trying.

I'm first and foremost a fan of anything Texan. SWA is more Texas than AA (darned carpetbaggers), therefore I support SWA. Not actually true (the carpetbagger part), I'm pretty proud that Texas is home to three of the best run airlines in the world. In this matter of the WA, my position comes from my firm belief that forcing all traffic into DFW is shortsighted. I've posted before, my belief that the metroplex can support and will require more than one major airport. It doesn't make any sense to me, to try and stop a the inevitable, so I think that the metroplex area politicians should get ahead of the game and plan for the future. A future that obviously needs more runways and terminals. Dallas Love is existant. Save money and keep it. I firmly believe that were we to close down Love, it would be less than a decade before the politicians were beating the drums for a bond issue to build another airport.

My "solution" is mostly tongue in cheek, but I do find it quite disengenuos that supporters of the WA, DFW, and AA want to restrict SWA to short haul only (from the metroplex) while they run full airplanes to those short haul destinations. And, I'm slightly bored, they are so easy to tweek. Obviously, they are taking business away from SWA, wheres the fairness in that? Tongue back in cheek again for that last shot

enigma

 

[flint4xx]

It tweekes my nerves though when a company, any company, tries to circumvent a law to gain an unfair advantage in a competitive market.

Circumvent? Please provide information that illustrates your inflammatory comment about circumventing law. Anything SW is doing is perfectly legal.