Wright Amendment Poll #2

[Garfield1966]

OK, so the right amendment goes away. How are they going to deal with the gate allotments? What about take off and landing slots? Is SWA going to be forced to give up a lot of their gates? Are they just going to expand Love field? I thought Love is in a pretty tight squeeze as it is and there is not much room for expansion. Does anyone know if any plans have been laid out for any of this?

 

[SharoninSAT]

OK, so the right amendment goes away. How are they going to deal with the gate allotments? What about take off and landing slots? Is SWA going to be forced to give up a lot of their gates? Are they just going to expand Love field? I thought Love is in a pretty tight squeeze as it is and there is not much room for expansion. Does anyone know if any plans have been laid out for any of this?

Giving up gates at Love is not a SWA option...shouldn't have to and I know their idea is not to have WA repealed and than think about it later.There is a plan.Hopefully WA will be repealed soon.

 

[KCFlyer]

Giving up gates at Love is not a SWA option...shouldn't have to and I know their idea is not to have WA repealed and than think about it later.There is a plan.Hopefully WA will be repealed soon.

What I'd be curious to see is this...if the WA is repealed, how many airlines (other than AA) would rush to Love Field.

 

[SharoninSAT]

What I'd be curious to see is this...if the WA is repealed, how many airlines (other than AA) would rush to Love Field.

Isn't there limited gate space at all airports?A proposed solution by Dallas and Ft Worth should be wrapped up by May 20.On June 1 efforts to immediately repeal the WA in Congress will be cleared for takeoff.

 

[SharoninSAT]

well stated

 

[boxer]

remember???
David!!!

United was the original 800 lb. gorilla and look where they are today. Things change.

 

[Hackman]

Love Field is not an airport that passenger jets should be flying out of. At Midway, we witnessed tragedy when there is an aircraft mishap because of short runways. A modern airport should not have streets and neighborhoods so close to runways with no room for error.

DFW was built for the jet age, Love Field was not, and should have been closed to passenger jets long ago.

I'm sure the residents and schools around Love Field would love the end of jets rattling the windows every 5 minutes.

 

[dl764]

Love Field is not an airport that passenger jets should be flying out of. At Midway, we witnessed tragedy when there is an aircraft mishap because of short runways. A modern airport should not have streets and neighborhoods so close to runways with no room for error.

DFW was built for the jet age, Love Field was not, and should have been closed to passenger jets long ago.

I'm sure the residents and schools around Love Field would love the end of jets rattling the windows every 5 minutes.

That would be nice indeed for all near Love Field to experience quiet! Good point also with what happened at MDW. Love Field should either be shut down or limited to General Aviation and Business Jets, Maybe regional jets (AA Eagle)

 

[SharoninSAT]

Love Field is not an airport that passenger jets should be flying out of. At Midway, we witnessed tragedy when there is an aircraft mishap because of short runways. A modern airport should not have streets and neighborhoods so close to runways with no room for error.

DFW was built for the jet age, Love Field was not, and should have been closed to passenger jets long ago.

I'm sure the residents and schools around Love Field would love the end of jets rattling the windows every 5 minutes.

Here's a web site you might be interested in...stop-and-think.org.It's right up your alley and you should fit in just fine

That would be nice indeed for all near Love Field to experience quiet! Good point also with what happened at MDW. Love Field should either be shut down or limited to General Aviation and Business Jets, Maybe regional jets (AA Eagle)

You might be interested in that web site as well(same mentality)

 

[dl764]

Here's a web site you might be interested in...stop-and-think.org.It's right up your alley and you should fit in just fine
You might be interested in that web site as well(same mentality)

just checked it out. interesting h34r:

 

[SharoninSAT]

just checked it out. interesting h34r:

glad you checked it out and found it interesting

 

[KCFlyer]

So Sharon what is it you find so frightening competing in the open market. Competition is GOOD for consumers.

I seem to recall Braniff 747's and American DC10's operating out of Love field on a daily basis. And somehow, it's "unsafe" for a 737? Competition IS good for consumers. Open the market...abolish Wright.

 

[SharoninSAT]

So Sharon what is it you find so frightening competing in the open market? Competition is GOOD for consumers.

I don't Bob and I agree with your earlier quote.Hackman and dl764 are so concerned about noise and runway space and seem to be pro Wright so I gave them a place to go where everyone has their way of thinking...
I agree competition IS GOOD for consumers!!!Wright is totally Wrong!!! :down: and it WILL be abolished!!!

 

[Ch. 12]

Check out this article from the DMN. Seems to me that it becomes more and more obvious to the lay-person that DFW and AMR are in bed together (duh). It is nice that the airport will give $$ incentives to those carriers flying widebodies internationally...hmmm...I wonder WHO might fly 80%+ of those?? NK scales down due to typical AMR backlash in DFW but the airport blames fleet?! Now DFW provides supplemental income to AMR while complaining that fees at DAL that are lower than at DFW are "unfair"? Give me a break. How long will the corruption at DFW continue? Let's call a spade a spade and actually have a free market...

D/FW takes steps to lure more carriers
Airport board OKs new incentive program; two other efforts revised



12:00 AM CDT on Friday, May 5, 2006
By SUZANNE MARTA / The Dallas Morning News


Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is sweetening its offer to carriers willing to bring new service to North Texas.

The airport board approved a new incentive program Thursday that, for the most lucrative flights, would offer up to $1.2 million in landing fee rebates and marketing support.

The program revises two other incentive efforts – one that offered free gates in Terminal E after Delta Air Lines Inc. left, and another paying out matching funds for carriers that launch advertising campaigns for new service.

Joe Lopano, who heads D/FW's marketing effort, said the previous programs had become outdated.

For example, the Terminal E program offered incentives for carriers taking a minimum of 10 gates. But after shifting several carriers over from elsewhere at the airport, Terminal E has just five empty gates in the main building and nine at a satellite.

And the offer of matching funds for new service had become less appealing in a struggling industry that prefers "cash up front," Mr. Lopano said. "The market moves fast, and this new program gets us out in front."

D/FW's carrier-assistance program was pioneering when it was developed in the late 1990s. But the program now faces aggressive competition from other airports around the country.

And industry pressure, particularly from rising fuel prices, has made it more difficult to attract new carriers. "We have airlines that are much more skittish about starting new service," Mr. Lopano said.

Spirit Airlines, a carrier that launched service under the program, has pulled back. Spirit started with daily flights to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., earlier this year but now flies twice weekly, due to fuel costs and a change in its fleet.

The top incentives in the new program would be paid to airlines offering wide-body international flights. New service using smaller aircraft, or to domestic destinations, would be offered significantly less.

Airport officials said daily international service by a wide-body aircraft could inject as much as $350 million in direct and indirect economic impact to the region.

The new program allows airport officials to spend in incentives as much as $7 million a year, but not in excess of $20 million total, by 2009. That's up from $1.95 million the airport had available this year.

Up to $350,000 annually could be used to offer incentives for carriers to stay at the airport, something that wasn't included in previous programs.

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[dl764]

I don't Bob and I agree with your earlier quote.Hackman and dl764 are so concerned about noise and runway space and seem to be pro Wright so I gave them a place to go where everyone has their way of thinking...
I agree competition IS GOOD for consumers!!!Wright is totally Wrong!!! :down: and it WILL be abolished!!!

I hope so!