"Representative Sam Johnson this morning said at a news
conference that this was an issue of airlines being able to have
the freedom to fly wherever they wanted. He's dead wrong. This
isn't a freedom issue. It's a local economy issue. There's an
answer to this and it isn't repealing the Wright Amendment. The
answer is Southwest Airlines moving to DFW where they will have
room to expand and no restrictions.
Source: Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), on Congressional
efforts to repeal the Wright Amendment. For three decades, that
legislation has restricted airlines flying out of Dallas-Love Field
(primarily Southwest Airlines) from serving markets outside of
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Alabama.
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