Talk:Dallas Love Field

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I would think an encyclopedia would be devoid of bias. The portion of the article written for love field pertaining to southwest airlines is obviously biased to the position held by southwest in wanting to repeal the wright amendment. Whoever wrote the article is attempting to re-write history pertaining to the agreements made between Dallas and Fort Worth. It uses loaded phrases like "This angered the City of Fort Worth and DFW International Airport, which resented expanded air service at the airport within Dallas." Angered, yes. Resented expanded air service, no. The anger was over Dallas not taking measures to prevent Southwest from operating at Love. Dallas should have used non-renewing leases. By not doing so, Dallas shows it wanted Southwest to operate at Love. Dallas even now operates at a deficit at Love to curry favor with Southwest.

The phrase "Using the pretext of protecting DFW International Airport, the Wright Amendment restricted passenger air traffic out of Love Field" reeks of bias. I truly beleive Southwest Airlines is using this as an additional attempt to alter history and advance it's desires without bothering to pay for an advertisement.

I love the note on the wikipedia site "Content must be based on verifiable sources." I don't think either of the quoted phrases or much of the article could be verified beyond the Southwest web-site. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 144.9.8.21 (talk • contribs) .

I might note that the above is written by a not-so-unbiased source, while we're on the topic. Here is the organization lookup of the IP associated with this comment:

OrgName:    American Airlines Incorporated 
OrgID:      AMERIC-112
Address:    4200 Amon Carter Boulevard  MD 2512
City:       Fort Worth
StateProv:  TX
PostalCode: 76155
Country:    US

NetRange:   144.9.0.0 - 144.9.255.255 
CIDR:       144.9.0.0/16 

—Cleared as filed. 20:51, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

True I work for American, but that does not alter my analysis of the article. Anyone with knowledge of the facts and history of Love and DFW will realize the partial truths, untruths, and bias in this article. The problem is, most people are not from this area and are not aware of the history. That makes this article misleading to people who may be trying to form an opinion. By the way, how about an analysis of the ip address of the people writing the article? Would we find it belongs to Southwest?

[edit] Location

Love Field is within the Dallas city limits. Any objections to changing the passage that says it is northwest of Dallas? Dmp348 22:15, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

That essentially refers to the distance from the city center. Look at any airport article and it will have that type of statement, in fact look at Dallas Executive Airport. If you are really wanting to know exactly click the AirNav link at the bottom of the Article it states that as well. Basically that is the proper location identifier. --MJHankel 22:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pending repeal of Wright Amendment

This section has now been edited to say that the amendment was recently repealed. Per the MOS, the use 'recently' should be avoided. This section needs to be recast as a historical note, giving the date the amendment was repealed, eliminating the use of 'recently'. -- Donald Albury 03:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)