Southwest announces potential flights from Love Field in gate fight

[redflyer65]

Nose,

You might want to read up on the 'original' Wright Amendment and what cities were allowed. It was a specific, Congressional add-on to limit ONE carrier. Period. Rep. Wright was in the pocket of American and wanted to make sure little ole SW wouldn't be a problem.

There were no 'thru' flights allowed at it's inception. So yes, it's goal was to handcuff a small Texas carrier. I can't find any other restrictions placed on one single carrier like this Amendment did. If you find one, let me know.

 

[Noserider76]

Nose,

You might want to read up on the 'original' Wright Amendment and what cities were allowed. It was a specific, Congressional add-on to limit ONE carrier. Period. Rep. Wright was in the pocket of American and wanted to make sure little ole SW wouldn't be a problem.

There were no 'thru' flights allowed at it's inception. So yes, it's goal was to handcuff a small Texas carrier. I can't find any other restrictions placed on one single carrier like this Amendment did. If you find one, let me know.

The intent of DFW was for all passenger traffic to be there. Do you think American would have stayed at DAL by themselves if that had been a choice? Never mind. Doesn't matter and it's been hashed and rehashed here. I'm glad SWA made it and it's the great company it is today.

 

[waveflyer]

Revisionist history by the SWA haters

Widebody ops required DFW as well as IAH, not SWA - they just wanted an airport on the local govts dime and force all competition out to their airport where they wanted to hub and spoke-
Pretty dumb posts here by nose and our usual flop

 

[Flopgut]

Revisionist history by the SWA haters

Widebody ops required DFW as well as IAH, not SWA - they just wanted an airport on the local govts dime and force all competition out to their airport where they wanted to hub and spoke-
Pretty dumb posts here by nose and our usual flop

Wow! What a joke. You don't know squat about IAH Wave. Stick to attempting to defend your airlines' favorable treatment at LUV. DFW was built to accommodate both the cities of Dallas and Ft Worth. The city of Ft Worth got screwed when LUV didn't close to ALL airlines.

What do you think about the common use idea for these two gates Wave? Wouldn't that "set LUV free" like your anti WA campaign claimed you wanted?

 

[waveflyer]

I want SWA to get them bc we'll use them and I work here
If we don't, I do not care who gets them- in almost 8 years at SWA I've never heard a SWA employee bitch about competition- not virgin or sky bus or any
Last legacy was seriously up in arms about any new entrant

You have the same entitlement issues flop

The plans for the big airports were crafted by those who needed big airports to hub and spoke and fly widebodies out of

Your problems aren't ours

And if you want to start service to Addison or Ellington, knock yourself out
I do not care how you do business and do not care what you think about how we do business

Got a weird version of "fair" going on in that off balance little head of yours flop

 

[HowardBorden]

The city of Ft Worth got screwed when LUV didn't close to ALL airlines.

Please explain how the lack of foresight on the part of Fort Worth or Dallas or any of the airlines that VOLUNTARILY signed an agreement move their operations from Love to DFW is any way shape or form the responsibility of Southwest Airlines?

Have you ever heard of the term "due diligence?" Here is a quick overview since it is quite obvious that you are under the impression that it is not a necessary process before entering into a contractual agreement.

Due Diligence -Generally, due diligence refers to the care a reasonable person should take before entering into an agreement or a transaction with another party.
Due diligence is a way of preventing unnecessary harm to either party involved in a transaction.

I'll let you in on another secret that is widely accepted in the business world: due diligence is the responsibility of the parties entering into an agreement, not the responsibility of outside unrelated parties not in any way involved in the contractual agreement! The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth and all airlines that were signatories of an agreement to move their operations from Love to DFW are the responsible parties for due diligence to protect their interests before entering into a contractual agreement.

For some reason Flop you seem to be in caught up in an endless less loop of faulting SWA for the inadequacies relating to business acumen of parties that should be capable of exercising good judgement on their own behalf. Please help me understand how lack of forethought on the part of other entities can somehow be the attributed to Southwest Airlines. For God's sake man, the Supreme Court of the United States of America stood on the side of SWA and unequivocally pronounced that it was illegal to force Southwest to leave Love Field. It doesn't get any clearer than that when the highest court in the land specifically endorses the legality of Southwest's decision to remain at Love, yet you continue to opine that your views on the matter are superior in merit to those expressed by the Supreme Court and then in the same breath lecture about the sense of entitlement expressed by SWA. In a word, "unbelievable!"

 

[waveflyer]

Well written, but you can't fix crazy Howie

 

[SWA Bubba]

The city of Ft Worth got screwed when LUV didn't close to ALL airlines.

Or better yet, you might explain exactly HOW the city of Ft Worth "got screwed" when Southwest flew out of DAL...

Bubba

 

[redflyer65]

Well written, but you can't fix crazy Howie

Precise and correct.

 

[Flying the Line]

I think that if Delta wanted love field gates they should have stepped in to help rid the wright amendment.

 

[General Lee]

I think that if Delta wanted love field gates they should have stepped in to help rid the wright amendment.

Delta has been using Love gates for awhile off and on nonstop to ATL, but had to use 50 seaters until recently. Making those gates "common use gates" could give a few airlines a chance to offer new or increased service. We'll see....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[scarlet]

DELTA had a huge presence in DALLAS and turned its back on Dallas and CLOSED the base, if I remember correctly?

 

[redflyer65]

Delta has never really accomplished much at Love, even with the RJ's.

Why is Jenny's name in red?

 

[slaquer5]

Delta has never really accomplished much at Love, even with the RJ's.

Why is Jenny's name in red?

So you do care . He will be pleased.

 

[tankerhead]

Delta has never really accomplished much at Love, even with the RJ's.

Why is Jenny's name in red?

Monthly cycle.