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How Southwest Took Over Dallas Love-Field Airport
Despite the city of Dallas imposing numerous strict provisions on air travel at the city's Love-Field Airport, Southwest Airlines prevailed and was able to repeal those amendments. Today, Southwest is the airport's largest operator. (aeroxplorer.com) More...
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I love that airport. Let’s hope and pray that southwest never gives in to the city and moves to dfw. Long live KDAL.
Bottom line, America's free-market business system is inherently customer service oriented; thus, superior to a centralized government controlled system. A free market economy inherently dictates business success or failure, don't legislate it to accommodate private equity investment tax avoidance.
Another boomer myth. Yeah, it's supposed to be that way, but guys like Bob "Don't Feed The Dog" Crandall helped kill that and now we have AANUS. BTW, I'm 70 and able to recognize what is and what was. There are very few free markets now, and especially in the aircraft and airline industries where mergers killed of real competition.
America has yet to establish a free-market business system.
The previous posters have it somewhat backwards. The Wright Amendment was a compromise that allowed Southwest to keep flying from Love Field. The City of Dallas and virtually everybody not wearing orange hotpants wanted Southwest to operate only from DFW and to close Love to commercial traffic. And at the time of the initial agreement, AA was only a secondary player in Dallas....Braniff was the dominant carrier at DFW
Bob Proud, you are incorrect. The Wright Amendment had nothing to do with allowing SWA to stay at at DAL. That right was well established long before then. The Wright amendment was actually a compromise that allowed SWA to fly interstate out of DAL but restricted it (originally) to states bordering Texas.
I was there from the early days. Employee #1416. Good times!
I was there from the early days. Employee #1416. Good times!
bob..you are correct..i am old enough to remember when there WAS NO DFW , and braniff flew in and out of love field ..after dfw was built,southwest was still "the little airline that could", flying out of love field..lots of people actually still prefer love for its location,and southwest with approval has expanded,remodeled,built and now has a great presence at love field..in fact,united used to have their united express jets fly in and out of there from iah,but im not sure they still do, and southwest came and went from hobby in houston, expanded to iah,went back to all operations from hobby,them this last year came back to operating out of hou and iah..i dont think they use dfw however,but they have been more than just a "regional" or texas carrier for quite some time,and braniff, for as great a company as it was, has been gone since the early 80's!(pss..i remember staying at the dfw hyatt which was between two terminals at the time and looking out my window to see rows and rows of parked braniff planes after their "demise"..it was sad...)aa then became the "dominant"one at DFW and began their expansion..
