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Group Urges Mayors to Focus Strictly on Public Interest
Calls on Southwest to Move to DFW, but Cautions American to be Careful What
It Asks for
RADNOR, Pa., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Business Travel Coalition
(BTC) today published analysis and conclusions regarding the Wright
Amendment controversy after a 5-month due diligence initiative. In a letter
to Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief, BTC urged
the officials to consider BTC's findings as well as Senators James Inhofe's
(R-OK) and Tom Harkin's (D-IA) proposed legislation, S. 1425.
According to the Coalition, if the Mayors and City Councils pursue
what's in the highest and best public interest versus what's in American
Airlines' or Southwest Airlines' interest, then business travelers in Texas
and around the country will benefit enormously. It is BTC's conclusion that
the public interest is best served by Southwest Airlines moving to DFW, a
move advocated by DFW and American.
BTC Chairman Kevin Mitchell cautioned though, "Some may think such a
move would be a dancing-in-the-street solution for American, but the
airline should be careful what it asks for. Did US Airways invite Southwest
into its hubs at Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh; United, Denver and
Dulles? Of course not. Southwest's entry to DFW would be a serious threat
to American wherein the only winners who matter would be the consumer and
the taxpayer."
The BTC Report can be downloaded at http://btcweb.biz/wright.htm.
Founded in 1994, the mission of the Business Travel Coalition is to
lower the long-term cost structure of business travel. BTC seeks to bring
transparency to industry and government policies and practices so that
customers can influence issues of strategic importance to them.
Here's an article from the above's website:
Phaseout at Love seen as a solutionBy DAVID WETHE
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
A Pennsylvania-based group representing business travelers across the country proposes phasing out commercial flights at Dallas Love Field over three years and letting the two Metroplex airlines battle it out at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport as a way to resolve the Wright Amendment dispute.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/14307667.htm
Calls on Southwest to Move to DFW, but Cautions American to be Careful What
It Asks for
RADNOR, Pa., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Business Travel Coalition
(BTC) today published analysis and conclusions regarding the Wright
Amendment controversy after a 5-month due diligence initiative. In a letter
to Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief, BTC urged
the officials to consider BTC's findings as well as Senators James Inhofe's
(R-OK) and Tom Harkin's (D-IA) proposed legislation, S. 1425.
According to the Coalition, if the Mayors and City Councils pursue
what's in the highest and best public interest versus what's in American
Airlines' or Southwest Airlines' interest, then business travelers in Texas
and around the country will benefit enormously. It is BTC's conclusion that
the public interest is best served by Southwest Airlines moving to DFW, a
move advocated by DFW and American.
BTC Chairman Kevin Mitchell cautioned though, "Some may think such a
move would be a dancing-in-the-street solution for American, but the
airline should be careful what it asks for. Did US Airways invite Southwest
into its hubs at Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh; United, Denver and
Dulles? Of course not. Southwest's entry to DFW would be a serious threat
to American wherein the only winners who matter would be the consumer and
the taxpayer."
The BTC Report can be downloaded at http://btcweb.biz/wright.htm.
Founded in 1994, the mission of the Business Travel Coalition is to
lower the long-term cost structure of business travel. BTC seeks to bring
transparency to industry and government policies and practices so that
customers can influence issues of strategic importance to them.
Here's an article from the above's website:
Phaseout at Love seen as a solutionBy DAVID WETHE
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
A Pennsylvania-based group representing business travelers across the country proposes phasing out commercial flights at Dallas Love Field over three years and letting the two Metroplex airlines battle it out at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport as a way to resolve the Wright Amendment dispute.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/14307667.htm