It's clear that SWA was sharp shooting the situation. If you want agreement that SWA eventually had the right to use Love Field, then you also must agree that the disenfranchised parties had every right to produce the Wright Amendment. And that in fact the actual restrictions were generous! The eventual repeal was generous! This was not eyes-wide-open for the two Cities or for the 8 CAB airlines, or the CAB and TAC.
Excuse me?
Who exactly was "disenfranchised"? The airlines who wanted to, and agreed to move to a larger airport built specifically to allow for their expansion? Them? The same airlines who later went back to Love Field to fly as they pleased, and then left because they didn't
want to fly there?
Those guys, Flop?
Southwest's right to fly anywhere in the country, according to then-current laws, regulations, and the Airline Deregulation Act was affirmed multiple times by every court in the land, including the US Supreme Court, in response to one frivolous legal attack after another. Southwest had plans to do exactly that.
Then the legacies then got their stooge, Speaker Wright, to
change the law specifically to screw Southwest at Love Field. It specifically enjoined Southwest from ever flying from DAL anywhere outside of Texas, other than the few places they already flew. EVER. Wow, Flop, the WA sure was "generous" to Southwest. It permanently took away Southwest's rights.
The only entities that the WA was actually "generous" to was the legacies at DFW, who subsequently were relieved from having to compete with Southwest in Dallas. Hence, statistically higher airfares to/from Dallas than other city pairs, and more profits for them.
Bubba