Originally Posted by
Nortonious
Suggest you read my original post again. Never "revised" history. Just used a healthy dose of sarcasm to point out to all the "Congressional-Lobbyist-Conspiracy-Theorists" that congressional legislation can cut both ways. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Wright Amendment had long since served its original stated purpose of protecting DFW airport's early viability and was doing nothing more than handcuffing SWA.
If you've convinced yourself that SWA is the evil empire, then there is nothing more to discuss.
I personally hate the lobbying notion as a whole, at the end of the day it comes down to who has the most amount of money to help "tip" the scale towards there sides' interests.
Looking at it from an outsider's perspective it is unfair to see that SWA needs to benefit in one way or another from almost any airline transaction that falls under antitrust matters as defined by the DOJ.
That being said, your right, sometimes your the windshield and sometimes your the bug. SWA is not the first, and by no means will they the last, to lobby heavily in Washington.