WN ATL-DAL

[AirwAr]

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1314062127.html
"The Dallas-based airline, the world's largest in the low-cost sector, said it will also begin flights to and from Atlanta on February 12, 2012, with 15 daily departures and five nonstop flights including one between Atlanta and Dallas Love Field."

Considering the Wright Amendment...how is this possible?

 

[gizmo_sc]

I think if you read the PRESS RELEASE from SWA and not an article that some off the wall journalist wrote you could answer your own question. Yes you are correct that due to the Wright Admendment they are not allowed to fly ATL-DAL nonstop but can go to any city that is allowed.

 

[swamt]

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1314062127.html
"The Dallas-based airline, the world's largest in the low-cost sector, said it will also begin flights to and from Atlanta on February 12, 2012, with 15 daily departures and five nonstop flights including one between Atlanta and Dallas Love Field."

Considering the Wright Amendment...how is this possible?

I read that too and was wondering the same. W/A goes away in 2014, until then must make a stop. Unless ALT is one of the added states that we never really paid any attention to because we never fly there, but, I doubt it... Watch us explode in ALT.

 

[robbedagain]

start with ATL- BWI, PHX, HOU, AUS, MCO Im wondering if HOU is the correct code for Houston HObby

 

[jimntx]

Yes, HOU is Houston's Hobby airport. ATL-BHM-DAL is legal, as is ATL-JAN-DAL and ATL-MSY-DAL. Maybe WN will bring back the "good ole days" of flying in the South, and do ATL-BHM-JAN-MSY-HOU-DAL.

P.S. The "good ole days" were previously known as "these trying times in which we live."

 

[swamt]

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1314062127.html
"The Dallas-based airline, the world's largest in the low-cost sector, said it will also begin flights to and from Atlanta on February 12, 2012, with 15 daily departures and five nonstop flights including one between Atlanta and Dallas Love Field."

Considering the Wright Amendment...how is this possible?

As we suspected there will be a stop. At least until Oct. 2014

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Southwest Airlines to fly from Dallas Love Field to Atlanta

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By Andrea Ahles

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Following on its acquisition of AirTran Airways, Southwest Airlines said Monday it will launch service at the nation's busiest airport, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, including a one-stop flight there from Dallas Love Field to the Big Peach.

The Dallas-based airline will offer 15 daily flights to Austin, Houston Hobby, Baltimore, Denver and Chicago's Midway Airport. The service will start Feb. 12, with introductory fares as low as $79 each way.

The service marks another step toward Southwest's integration of AirTran, whose largest hub is in Atlanta. Southwest is operating AirTran as a separate airline but plans to fully fold AirTran into Southwest within a few years.

By adding flights to Atlanta, Southwest passengers can connect to AirTran flights once the two airlines can codeshare flights, which is expected by mid-2012, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said.

"We will be lowering fares by 30 percent on average," Kelly said in an interview. "For the Dallas metro area, we will be serving Love Field to Atlanta for the very first time."

The service from Love Field will start three months after Southwest ends AirTran's six daily flights to Atlanta from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, and should keep fares down on that route. The DFW flights are being stopped to comply with requirements of the 2006 Wright Amendment compromise, which requires Southwest to give up gates at Love Field if it continues operations at DFW.

Kelly said Southwest will offer its service from Love Field to Atlanta with a stop in Austin or Houston, and he expects it will add to the company's revenue out of the Dallas airport. In 2010, Southwest said it generated $216 million in revenue from one-stop routes, which the Wright compromise allowed it to add.

Kelly said that the capacity to serve Atlanta will come from scheduling adjustments in the winter. He expects next year's overall capacity to be the same as or slightly lower than 2011 as AirTran planes are taken out of service to be converted to Southwest.

Andrea Ahles, 817-390-7613


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