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Originally Posted by the urban politician
I did not know that Dallas based Southwest Airlines had Midway Airport as it’s largest hub.
I realize that OHare is a major hub for AA, although maybe not it’s biggest one.
But for Southwest Airlines, Midway is.
If I were Rahm I would do be using my peers of persuasion to get them to move their HQ here. Either a downtown HQ or a HQ near Midway Airport, the latter which would really help Rahm Politically because it would bring a lot of jobs to the south side.
Any thoughts on this?
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I don't know if you remember the Wright Amendment, but it was a law in Texas that said flights out of Love Field could only fly to neighboring states. It was a way to protect DFW. If you wanted to fly to MDW from LUV, you had to connect, by law.
Anyway, Southwest threatened to move to Chicago unless it was changed. The changed the law. Since then, Southwest has paid for major expansions in Luve and Hobby. Major Southwest investment in international flights to Latin America out of Hobby.
As someone who is forced to go to Texas quite a lot for work, I fly Southwest a lot. If you look at their flight map, it's about half to little pissant destinations in Texas. El Paso, Harlingen, Lubbock. Texas is part of Southwest's DNA. It's difficult to imagine them relocating anywhere less 10-gallon than Dallas. It would be like Exxon moving to Portland or something.