2005-05-12T01:22:58Z 2005-05-12T01:22:58Z 2005-05-12T01:22:58Z

<p>The <a href="http://blog.lordsutch.com/?entryid=2690" title="The Wright Stuff">Wright Amendment</a> is back in the news, as Southwest Airlines (my new favorite carrier&mdash;$220 round-trip tickets from <span class="caps">JAN</span> to <span class="caps">RDU</span> will give you the warm fuzzies, as will non-stop flights to <a href="http://www.chicago.il.org/">my favorite city in North America</a>) is <a href="http://www.setlovefree.com/">stepping up its lobbying effort</a> to get the flight restrictions on Dallas&rsquo; Love Field repealed.</p> <p>Vance of <cite>Begging to Differ</cite> <a href="http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/archives/2005_05.html#002679">links</a> a study that shows <a type="application/pdf" href="http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/socsci/working_papers/workingpaper11.pdf">Dallas has the highest airfares of any major U.S. city</a>, and the lack of competition with American Airlines at <span class="caps">DFW</span>, particularly now that Delta has shut down its Dallas hub due to its financial problems, is pretty clearly the cause.</p> <p>American may have also dug itself a bit of a hole in trying to protect its fortress hub at <span class="caps">DFW</span>: the <cite>Kansas City Star</cite> <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/11614625.htm">reports</a> that American reneged on promises it made Missouri lawmakers when it took over <span class="caps">TWA</span>, and the new chairman of the Transportation Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee is none other than Kit Bond of Missouri.</p> http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/2752 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=2752