I'm about the only one who can recall this braniff stuff, which is too bad. Because this is all just like it happened before. The context of the agreement to build DFW was not that Love Field would be completely abandoned by legacy airlines, but when it came down to it your "lawyer" [Herb] turned it into that. And remember that was a 3 party agreement, the "West-of-plex" [Ft Worth] folks really got screwed by you. I realize SWA has written them off, but you're going to see a lot of those people walk right past your ticket counter and happily pay more for a VX ticket. The local blogs have had a sh!tload of comments lately that SWA needed a taste of its own medicine. VX is going to have a lot of support for no other reason than that. And if SWA hits them hard with a fare war it's likely to backfire. No one has forgotten the bawling/complaining SWA had about everybody coming after them.
None of this crap happened in CA. You might not being willing to wrap your mind around it, but your question has been answered.
Actually, you "remember" crap.
95% of everything you've ever claimed on this forum about Love Field, Southwest, or the Wright Amendment is complete horsesh1t. You're making it up to fit your anti-SWA agenda, and when someone points out your fallacies (and boy, do you have a lot of them!), you just remain quiet for a while, and then eventually trot it out again, pretending as if no one's ever pointed out the actual facts to you. You know, kinda like General Lee.
Lemme help you out here, Flop:
Braniff went away from mismanagement, and was never "kicked out" of Love Field. Other airlines have come and gone from Love field of their own volition, having not been able to make their business plan work there. Nobody "gave" us crap at Love. Everybody tried to kill us back then, including DFW and both Ft Worth and the city Dallas itself. The city of Ft Worth in no way got "screwed" by us, royally or otherwise. DFW brought zillions of dollars and jobs to them, and their old airport was abandoned before Southwest even existed (while Love was still operating with the legacies). And we didn't "bawl and complain" about a fare war; we fought back with our own tactics and won. The only thing we "complained" about (fought in court, actually) was the frivolous legal attacks, and the actual criminal attacks from three existing legacies. You should know something about that, Flop; your beloved Continental was one of three airlines who pled no contest in criminal court for their illegal shenanigans. The other two were Braniff and Texas International, in case you were wondering. You like to whine about "poor" Braniff a lot, but they had a criminal record, just like your airline.
Anyway, maybe you should write some of this stuff down this time, since you seem to "forget" it in a week or so, every time. No need to thank me, Flop, just trying help keep you from looking stupid.
Bubba