Originally Posted by
Herb687
Are you sure about that?
I thought that, in the original Wright Amendment days (remember the Wright Amendment was itself subsequently amended), not only could WN not fly nonstop from DAL to points in other than TX/AR/LA/OK/NM, they could not sell tickets between DAL and points outside those states either.
The Wright Amendment was not exactly a perimeter rule. I believe that it would have been illegal to sell a DAL-LAS ticket under the original Wright Amendment even if the flight stopped in MAF or ABQ.
Of course nothing would preclude passengers from buying separate DAL-ABQ and ABQ-LAS tickets and taking it upon themselves to build their own connection but I don't think WN would operate direct DAL-ABQ-LAS flights in violation of Wright.
I remember once as a teenager my dad bought me a ticket SAN-DAL via Southwest. I actually flew San Diego to El Paso; changed planes and then flew El Paso to Albuquerque;
stayed on that plane, and continued on to Love.
Also in my early days of flying Southwest (grew up in Dallas) I recall many direct flights with stops where I would just sit and chill while the plane changed passengers.