No love lost at Dallas Love Field Airport, as Wright was shown to be wrong

It is Valentine's Day, and there is no better one to examine the mixed fortunes over decades of Dallas' secondary airport.

Love Field had been mainly unlucky in love, but that could now reasonably describe itself as a 'crazy little thing called love'.

Since its inception 107 years ago as a military facility, the airport has had to contend with the threat of closure; a brand new major airport next door (one of few airports the US has built over the last 50 years); US airline deregulation; and a legal requirement to restrict its route network to a handful of neighbouring states.

But with no, or few, other suitors, Southwest Airlines was able to establish its own love affair - an important base there - and with the repeal of the dreaded Wright Amendment it has been able to support a route network that now embraces (what other word could be used?) much of the USA, allowing more cities than ever to feel the love.