Southwest Airlines gets ready for end of Wright amendment

I’m ready for some airfare price wars in the area.

One year from Sunday, the shackles come off Dallas Love Field, and Southwest Airlines Co. is already anticipating the moment.

It is planning a full year of celebrations and promotions to lead up to Oct. 13, 2014, when the Wright amendment goes away and Southwest can fly nonstop anywhere it wants in the United States.

The Dallas-based carrier, whose main offices abut Love Field, isn’t revealing everything it has planned. But on Monday, it will unveil a countdown clock in its headquarters lobby so that employees can see how many days remain until the big change.

“Something big is going to happen on 10-13-14,” Southwest executive Ron Ricks said Friday, “and it’s so big that we think it’s going to take a full year to celebrate. So we’re going to start the countdown at 10-14-2013.”

Full Dallas Morning News Article

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Bag of Randomness

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  • Regarding that pic, I’d take Calvin and Hobbes in that fight over Christopher Robbin and Pooh.
  • ‘The Big Bang Theory’ made a good point about Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark – Indy isn’t essential to the outcome of the movie.  If you remove Indy the Nazis would have still found the ark, opened it, and melted.
  • The TICKET was out at the Southwest Airlines Texas/OU plane pull yesterday.  Sometimes I really miss working at that place.
  • WifeGeeding and the kids will be in East Texas this weekend, time to throw another sick party at GeedingManor, or totally veg out and enjoy that thing call silence.
  • Because of how congressional districts are drawn, oh, nevermind.
  • Sammy Davis Jr and Jim Henson both died on the same day.  Is that bigger than Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson dying on the same day?
  • I like Oktoberfest costumes.
  • I’ve never been a fan of Lucy Liu but she’s won me over in ‘Elementary’.
  • ‘Parks and Rec’ – Sam Elliot was greatness and they had another forced Microsoft product placement.
  • When Letterman has Jack Hannah and his animals on it’s can’t miss television for me.
  • I find it interesting that original Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter not only orbited the Earth but spent 28 days living on the ocean floor, now that’s exploration.
  • Well, that’s one way to open a bag of chips. [gif]
  • I’ve seen the Zapruder film plenty of times, but with JFK isolated you can really see the damage. [gif]
  • The last time I flew out of DFW I was wasting time at one of the gift shops and thought it was a bit strange and macabre they were selling JFK assassination postcards.
  • I had no idea Marilyn Monroe had plastic surgery.  I didn’t think that field was advanced enough at that time to make it look so good.
  • We ate at Braums yesterday and a Blue Bell worker came it.
  • A Dallas company will donate $100,000 to the charity of the Jaguars if they beat the Broncos.
  • I really didn’t like the Dallas Morning News’ old website, but I’m not sure about their new redesign.
  • NYMag.com – An interview with two female Aggie students who write dinosaur erotica.  My blogging buddy Barry would say this girl’s picture on her Amazon.com page is a Hey Now.
  • Cover up? – The mysterious death of a Georgia teen has taken a bizarre twist with the revelation that an autopsy of his exhumed remains found his internal organs missing and his body stuffed with newspaper.
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