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The Kelleher legacy
Mitch Schnurman asks outgoing Southwest Airlines chairman and former CEO Herb Kelleher how he wants to be remembered: "That I consumed more Wild Turkey and cigarettes than anybody else in the industry," he quipped to reporters last week, after announcing...
This is a compromise on the Wright Amendment?
These previous posts have examined the hopelessly obsolescent Wright Amendment, which protects DFW Airport and its main airline -- American -- from competition that is beneficial to consumers by restricting Southwest Airlines and other discount carriers from flying passengers from...
Ripples from the Wright Amendment compromise
Following on this post from last week regarding this year's compromise over the dubious Wright Amendment, this Fort Worth Star-Telegram article reports that American Airlines will move some of its planes to Love Field to compete with Southwest Airlines' new...
Indulging the Wright Amendment
Well, this year's Congressional machinations over the Wright Amendment are over and the outcome is about as satisfying as one of those hard-fought football games that used to end in a tie before the era of overtime. Rather than simply...
Southwest, you're welcome here
This NY Sunday Times article provides a good overview of the challenges that Southwest Airlines faces in the rough and tumble airline business as its fuel hedging strategy (noted in earlier posts here and here) fades and it faces the...
George Will on the Wright Amendment
Washington Post columnist George F. Will adds this column to the growing body of opinion that the Wright Amendment -- which restricts Southwest Airlines from flying to most states from its Dallas Love Field hub -- is at least obsolescent...
Crandall on the Wright Amendment
Before retiring in 1998, former American Airlines chairman and CEO Robert Crandall steered American successfully through the first two decades after deregulation of the American airline industry. Mr. Crandall was viewed as a hard-knuckled but successful executive during his tenure...
More on the Wrong Amendment
Following up on this earlier post, Virginia Postrel disassembles the Wright Amendment in this NY Times piece. As noted in my earlier post, the Wright Amendment is so clearly obsolescent and contrary to the interests of the public that the...
Political hack alert
This earlier post noted that the brewing controversy in Dallas over the Wright Amendment provides a ripe field for politicians to reap financial windfalls so long as they are willing to make bad policy decisions that favor certain private business...
The Wrong Amendment
After years of remaining neutral on the Wright Amendment -- that law that restricts flights from Dallas's Love Field Airport -- Southwest Airlines is now calling the rule "anticompetitive" and "outdated". It's about time. The Wright Amendment was enacted in...
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