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Continental Airlines makes flight changes at Love Field
DALLAS (AP) — At approximately 6:30 a.m.
Thursday, a Continental Airlines jet will pull away
from a terminal at Love Field and end an era.
The flight to Houston's George Bush Interconti
nental Airport will mean the end of two decades
when Southwest Airlines held an effective monop
oly at Love.
A federal judge on Tuesday thwarted Southwest's
attempt to end a legal challenge to expanded flights
at Dallas' in-town airport.
Three weeks from now, another era will go by the
wayside when Continental starts flights to Cleveland
— the first long-distance commercial flights from
Love in years.
Continental's flights actually will be on 50-seat re
gional jets belonging to the feeder airline Continen
tal Express to get around the so-called Wright
Amendment.
That legislation, pushed through by former U.S.
Rep. Jim Wright to foster growth at then-new Dal-
las-Fort Worth International Airport, restricts flights
out of Love to airports in New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Arkansas and Louisiana.
But it applies only to jets with more than 56 seats.
The loophole cleared the way for upstart Legend
Airlines to announce last year its plans to set up op
erations at Love Field and fly to any destination us
ing modified jets.
Continental has maintained gates at Love Field
since 1 994 and recently spent $3 million upgrading
the area.
At a news conference last month. Continental
chief executive Cordon Bethune said his airline's re
gional jets were purchased with the Wright Amend
ment in mind.
Continental will continue its 19 daily round trips
out of DFW Airport — 12 to Houston, five to Newark,
N.J., and two to Cleveland.
'The flights out of DFW won't be affected at all,"
spokesperson Sarah Anthony said.
Continental's flights on Thursday will mark the
first time since the opening of DFW Airport in the
1970s that a major commercial airline other than
Southwest has offered flights out of Love.
American Airlines and the city of Fort Worth are
suing Dallas to stop flights by other airlines out of
Love Field, saying it is violating a 30-year agreement
to build, promote and protect DFW Airport. Ameri
can recently added Continental to its lawsuit.
Those lawsuits survived a key challenge on Tues
day, when a federal judge refused to block them.
Southwest Airlines tried to stop Fort Worth's law
suits against Dallas, Legend Airlines, DFW Airport
and others, saying they were prohibited by a 1982
federal court injunction. Southwest said Fort
Worth's new lawsuits threaten the airline's opera
tions at Love Field.
But United States District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer
of Dallas said he would not block Fort Worth's law
suits because the city is not suing Southwest. The
1982 injunction prohibited the city from suing
Southwest over access to Love Field.
American has said it too will begin flying from
Love if the other carriers are allowed to do so. It has
asked Dallas for two gates for flights to Austin this
summer.
Bethune said Continental's decision to begin
service now was because of American's request.
Continental feared it would lose its unused gates
to American.
"We moved up our timetable," Bethune said.
"We are being kind of pushed into it on someone
else's timetable."
Southwest also says it will not give up gates to
American, so it is not certain where the carrier will
fit in.
American's parent company, AMR Corp., owns of
fice space at Love Field that could be reconfigured
for use as gates, but spokesperson Al Comeaux said
that would take months.
Tax revenue aids baseball stadium
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Tax revenue in this central
Texas city will increase enough in the near future to help fi
nance a stadium for a minor-league baseball team recent
ly acquired by Nolan Ryan.
Reid Ryan, the pitching legend's son and team president,
will present the tax news to the city council Thursday, along
with financing plans for the $1 3 million stadium complex,
lease terms and the architectural contract.
Citing access to Interstate 35 and strong growth in pop
ulation, tourism and the economy, a new report on city tax
revenues said hotel-motel tax revenue should increase from
$421,281 this year to nearly $1.3 million by 2005.
The Ryans and their business partner Don Sanders of
Houston said they would initially invest $4 million in the
project. The team also has agreed to structure its lease
payments so the city, which would own the stadium on
U.S. 79, would get $1.5 million in the first five years, start
ing in 2000.
After that, for the last 1 5 years of the lease the team
would pay just $1 5,000 a year in rent.
Round Rock is just north of Austin.
Counties place bans
on outdoor burning
AUSTIN (AP) — Travis County is the lat
est to ban outdoor burning as hot, dry
weather continues to grip the state.
More than 50 counties already have tak
en such action.
Gov. George W. Bush this week asked
President Clinton for federal help to
place fire-fighting equipment and per
sonnel in advance in areas with the
greatest risk of fire.
In joining those counties, Travis County
Judge Bill Aleshire said Wednesday he also
was notifying the mayors of the county's 1 5
cities of his action.
"While it is always foolish to start un
controlled fires, the dangerously dry and
windy conditions, with no relief in sight,
increases the potential for merely foolish
behavior to result in a big disaster,"
Aleshire said.
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