October 16, 2014 the Wright amendment comes to an end and while that's great news for Southwest and the city of Dallas, what impact will this have on Oklahoma? Will Southwest discontinue flights out of Tulsa and OKC since they no longer have to stop in one of the Texas contiguous states before landing in Dallas? If so, are the powers at be working on a plan to mitigate this impact? We lost our direct flight to Kansas City most likely due to an amendment to a transportation spending bill back in 2005 that exempted Missouri from this amendment.
Perhaps our leaders need to be focusing on this instead of monuments at the state capitol and dictating who can get married.
I think the OKC-DAL and TUL-DAL routes sell enough tickets to passengers living in OKC and TUL there’s no real need for worry. Love Field is more convenient for people going to downtown Dallas as well.
I suspect if TUL-MKC were a profitable route, Southwest would have kept it.