I am familar with it, and I support it the repeal. No reason why Southwest should have to put up with these restrictions.

For the most part though, the answer to your question is no. Only a news junkie with no life knows about this stuff.

There was, however, a good recent editorial by George Will on the subject:

http://www.townhall.com/...ill/gw20050605.shtml

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
Which is probably why I was registering 59.67mi as I rolled into T2.

As I understand it, Southwest screwed DFW by refusing, at the last minute, to move from Love Field to DFW. The Wright Amendment is a compromise that allowed Southwest to stay at Love. That said, when I lived in Dallas, it was a realy pain in the ass to fly on Southwest to anywhere other than Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma or New Mexico.

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Steve Perkins

I do care about it, as it makes my trips from California to Dallas more complicated. Get ride of the Rong amendment!

When I practiced law in Dallas, we represented one of the parties in the Legend Airlines dispute (if you recall, Legend wanted to fly 56 seat jet airplanes out of Love Field to NY and other high profile destinations -- the Wright Amendment applied only to aircraft with more than 56 seats). I learned a lot about the history of Love Field, DFW, and the Wright Amendment. Before the federal government forced the cities into a compromise to build DFW and limit the reach of Love Field, planes used to actually fly between Dallas and Fort Worth. Those politics go back a long way and there is a huge amount of money and power behind each position, as I'm sure you well know. In my view, there is no public policy at stake (which is shameful considering that we're talking about federal legislation); it's a business dispute played out in a public forum. I don't think there is any escape.

Is John Wiley Price still around? Maybe there's some kind of race issue lurking about that would divert everyone's attention . . . .

i don't know that swa really "screwed" dfw back in the '70 considering when wright passed they prob had less than 20 aircraft and they were going against the likes of american, braniff, eastern, pan am, all pretty big companies at the time. at the time the agreement was made for airlines to go to dfw from love, early '70, swa wasn't even flying. they spent i think about 3-4 yrs in the courts to get the right, no pun intended, to fly. if it was such a pain to fly swa to cities other than the cities listed you can alway fly the other major based here. you're going to pay some of the highest airfares in the country for a flight of comparable distance, but the represenatives don't seem to mind that. i find it funny that kay bailey hutchins is not in favor of repealing the WA but quite frequently flies swa. if dfw is so important to save why doesn't she buy her tickets from carriers over there?

and yes john wiley is still around, and yes it is always a racial thing. i'm just glad i don't live in dallas county, i can still be entertained by the circus, for about 5 mins at a time, and then change the station cuz i really don't care.

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All I know is it's a ~$40 cab ride from DFW to Love. I hate the Wright Amendment.