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.
That is correct. Southwest could fly a 737 and crew from DAL to ABQ to LAS but they could not sell you a ticket from DAL to LAS with a stop in ABQ.
Southwest chose to operate a point-to-point system which had nothing to do with the Wright Amendment.