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Decades later, Wright Amendment lifted at Dallas Love Field
2014-10-12 10:42:30| Airlines - Topix.net
The 1979 amendment, which restricted long-haul flights out of Dallas Love Field, was enacted to protect the new Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, built jointly by Fort Worth and Dallas. With Delta Air Lines announcing in 2004 that it was dropping from 200 flights a day to 20, DFW Airport still needed that protection, they argued.
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