Don't doubt for a minute that both airports would survive. But in those (Wright Ammendment) days they wouldn't have. Detroit upgraded Detroit Wayne Major (DTW) and basically pulled all passenger traffic out of Willow Run. Chicago did basically the same. They rebuilt O'Hare and basically pulled all passenger service from Midway. Dulles was built and the Congress would not let them restrict traffic at National (Guess where they flew out of). As far as New York LaGuardia was basically domestic traffic and Kennedy (Idlewild) was basically international traffic. I fell todays airport situation doesn't warrant the need for the Wright Ammendment. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Agarwalla, Niraj" <Niraj.Agarwalla@xxxxxxx> To: "The Airline List" <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Allan9" <exatc@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:19 AM Subject: RE: article: One-stop flights: a Wright solution? I don't see why two airports cannot serve two airports. New York has both LGA and JFK; and Washington D.C. has DCA and IAD; and Chicago has MDW and ORD. -- Niraj Agarwalla -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allan9 Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:16 AM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: article: One-stop flights: a Wright solution? IIRC the big concern about it was the DFW folks were told or afraid that basically if everyone didn't move to DFW then basically no one would go and the airport would not pay for itself. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:43 AM Subject: Re: article: One-stop flights: a Wright solution? > Actually, Wright was put in by an otherwise pretty decent Congressman > named > Jim Wright in order to protect the interests of his Fort Worth > constituency. > There was never a plan to bulldoze DAL, only the idea to use the law of > contracts to get everyone to move over to DFW and close it to commercial > traffic. WN > decided against moving and was supported by the Supreme Court in their > decision. The support wasn't there in Congress to close the facility > outright, > particularly with a tenant still there. As far as Denver goes, that > airport > benefited everyone involved because of the sheer mess that was Stapleton. > They > were able to get every carrier to sign on to the move to DIA because > everyone > wanted to move. > > In a message dated 3/27/2006 7:03:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, > exatc@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > >> IIRC the Wright Ammendment was the alternative to bulldozing DAL. >> What about Denver?