Wright Amendment Advertising, Marketing and "Through Ticketing" Restrictions

Southwest is legally prohibited from offering or advertising the availability of flights between Love Field and any city outside the nine states in the Wright Amendment service area. The Wright Amendment states are Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Alabama. Therefore, a Customer travelling from Love Field cannot purchase a ticket from Southwest Airlines for travel beyond any point within the Wright Amendment states, even if that Customer is willing to make a stop within one of the Wright Amendment states.

For example, Southwest Airlines currently offers seven daily non-stop flights between Dallas Love Field and Little Rock, Arkansas, which is in one of the nine Wright Amendment states. Southwest Airlines also offers one daily non-stop flight from Little Rock, Arkansas to BWI Airport in Maryland. In the context of Southwest's "point to point" operating system, a Dallas-to-Little Rock-to-BWI routing is typical of the type of connections offered from every other cities served by Southwest Airlines. But, because of the "through ticketing" and marketing restrictions of the Wright Amendment, Southwest is legally prohibited from selling such a ticket to a Customer.