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Old Jul 16, 2021 | 10:55 am
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Originally Posted by Kevin AA
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.
Thanks for confirming. That's what I thought. I would just add that under my interpretation of the original rules of the Wright Amendment selling a DAL-LAS ticket would be just as prohibited on a connecting itinerary as a direct one. SWA could not sell a DAL-LAS ticket in the Wright days regardless of whether a direct flight stopped in ABQ or two different flight numbers were used to form a connecting itinerary.

As I posited upthread, passengers could certainly take it upon themselves to book two separate tickets DAL-ABQ and ABQ-LAS and create their own connection.
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