Union rep says Dallas flight restrictions unfair.

Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)

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Byline: Chris Jones

Sep. 27--A union leader representing employees of Southern Nevada's busiest airline said a 26-year-old federal law restricting flights to and from Dallas' Love Field unfairly penalizes Southwest Airlines employees.

"We see this as a civil and labor rights issue. ... The Wright Amendment should have gone away a long time ago," Thom McDaniel, president of Transport Workers Union Local 556, said recently from Las Vegas, where he took part in the 775-attendee Transport Workers Union of America conference at the Rio.

McDaniel's criticism was directed at a 1979 law that makes it illegal to fly or advertise flights from Love Field to points beyond the four states bordering Texas,...

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