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• New seating policy gets mixed reviews

  - 2007-12-28

  DALLAS -- Danielle Allen found herself in an unaccustomed position at Dallas' Love Field while awaiting her Southwest Airlines flight home to Austin. Instead of standing in line for up to an hour to make sure she got a decent seat on the carrier known for...

  Tags: Dallas, E-mail, MARKETING, SALES, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Southwest update may cost $40M

  - 2007-10-12

  Southwest Airlines Co., trying to win more business travelers, plans to spend as much as $40 million on changing boarding procedures to trim the time passengers wait in line and on sprucing up gate areas. The change, first announced last month, will be implemented next week at the...

  Tags: carrier, Dallas, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Boy, 9, sneaks onto jet

  - 2007-01-19

  Semaj Booker had never flown before. In fact, the resourceful 9-year-old had never even been to an airport. But "he knew he wanted to go to Texas," his youth pastor, Rev. Tony McMath, said Thursday, retelling the story the boy told him. Get there he did. In an age of...

  Tags: car, Dallas, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Several airlines boosting fares $10 per round trip

  - 2006-11-04

  DALLAS -- Several major carriers, led by American Airlines and Delta Air Lines Inc., are raising many U.S. fares by $10 per round trip, including business fares and advance-purchase tickets bought by leisure travelers. A leading Wall Street analyst expects the fare increases will stick, unlike a failed...

  Tags: American Airlines, Dallas, fare, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Southwest hikes fare wars with a cut in Dallas prices

  - 2006-11-02

  DALLAS AP -- Southwest Airlines Co. escalated a fare war against American Airlines on Wednesday, announcing it would sell one- way tickets to and from Dallas for as low as $39. Southwest Chief Executive Gary C. Kelly said Southwest was treating its longtime home at Dallas Love Field...

  Tags: Dallas, FINANCE, Investment, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Deregulation delayed is deregulation denied: appealing the Wright Amendment

  - 2006-09-22

  Academics and historians trace the beginnings of deregulation to the 1961 Doyle Report. On June 26, 1961, the United States Senate Committee on Commerce issued a staff report on National Transportation Policy, commonly known as the Doyle Report, which concluded that regulatory policy "has produced a general program of preserving...

  Tags: American Airlines, antitrust, Dallas, deregulation, Government, North, Regulations, senator, Southwest Airlines Co., Texas, Transportation

• Compromise in Dallas?(Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport)(Brief article)

  - 2006-05-01

  On April 6, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport DFW indicated in a leaked internal negotiation document that it might be willing to support the repeal of the controversial Wright Amendment if Dallas Love Field agreed to close almost half its gates. DFW said that...

  Tags: Dallas, DFW, FINANCE, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Mavericks fans given plane tickets

  - 2006-04-20

  DALLAS -- Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Wednesday reprised his starring role in the canceled 2004 reality show The Benefactor. But this time, as owner of the NBA franchise, Cuban and American Airlines teamed to give the more than 20,000 ticket holders at the Mavericks' regular season...

  Tags: American Airlines, Dallas, Southwest Airlines Co., TVs

• Southwest to launch service to Kansas City and St Louis from Dallas

  - 2005-12-01

  AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) has said that it will launch service from Dallas Love Field to St Louis and Kansas City on 13 December 2005 with four daily direct flights to each city. The airline said that President George W Bush recently...

  Tags: Dallas, Missouri, Southwest Airlines Co., Transportation

• American Airlines chairman tells U.S. Senate Panel that repeal of the Wright Amendment would be unfair and unwise; Gerard Arpey suggests Senators should just say "No" to repeal sought by Southwest Airlines.

  - 2005-11-11

  M2 PRESSWIRE-11 November 2005-American Airlines: American Airlines chairman tells U.S. Senate Panel that repeal of the Wright Amendment would be unfair and unwise; Gerard Arpey suggests Senators should just say "No" to repeal sought by Southwest AirlinesC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10112005 ...

  Tags: American Airlines, Dallas, DFW, Southwest Airlines Co., Strategy, U.S. Senate