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Wright Amendment
The Wright Amendment of 1979 was a federal law that governed traffic at Dallas Love Field, an airport in Dallas, Texas, USA, with some provisions also applying to other airfields in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex including Fort Worth Meacham International Airport and Addison Airport. It originally limited most non-stop flights from Love Field to destinations within Texas and neighboring states. Additional states were added to the permissible area in 1997 and 2005. In 2006, the amendment was repealed but left some restrictions intact until October 13, 2014 but with an added restriction on the number of gates allowed.〔http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Wright_Amendment.html〕
== Background ==
In the early 1960s, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decided Love Field in Dallas and Greater Southwest International Airport in Fort Worth, Texas could not handle future air traffic, and refused to continue federal funding for them. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) then ordered Dallas and Fort Worth to find a new site for a regional airport. The result was Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), which opened to airlines in 1974. To make the new airport viable, each city had agreed to restrict its own passenger airports and all airlines at the old airports signed an agreement to relocate.
Southwest Airlines was founded after the agreement between the airlines and cities to relocate to DFW and was not a party to the agreement, and felt that their business model would be affected by a long drive to the new airport. Before DFW's opening, Southwest filed suit to remain at Love Field, claiming that no legal basis existed to close the airport to commercial service and that they were not bound by an agreement they did not sign. In 1973, a Federal District Court ruled that, so long as Love Field remained open, the City of Dallas could not preclude Southwest from operating there.〔http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/371/1015/2133770/〕 The ruling was in the regulated environment where the CAB did not have control of travel within a state, the only service Southwest then offered.
When DFW opened in 1974, every airline except Southwest moved to the new airport. With the drastic reduction in flights, Love Field closed most of its concourses.
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