Dan Garton Quotations

We've said all along that if rules regarding Love Field were changed, we would shift flights from D/FW Airport and vigorously compete for every customer at Love Field.

You take one of those routes, it was probably a challenging route to begin with and we just look at the restructuring and the loss of the other flights as the straw that's going to break that camel's back.

We're in a tussle down at Love Field and we're going to be aggressive down there. We're not going to sit by and watch somebody steal our customers and ruin our company.

History was made tonight as American Airlines gave away more than 20,000 free, round-trip tickets as part of the largest-ever airline ticket giveaway. We believe in rewarding people for their loyalty, and tonight these devoted fans went home with free American Airlines ticket vouchers. Each Mavericks fan here tonight will soon have the opportunity to experience American's extraordinary new service from Love Field, and we look forward to showing them our special brand of appreciation.

Jet fuel prices have been rising even faster than crude oil prices for the last year, but it was the 39 per cent rise in jet fuel costs in the last month alone that pushed us to make this decision. We have made incredible progress in lowering our operational costs for over two years now. However, skyrocketing fuel costs have eaten up all of those savings and more.

It's not as if Southwest's situation at Love Field has suddenly changed it's always been one of their smaller stations.

We like selling tickets on the Internet, because, as everyone knows, it's the cheapest channel for ticket distribution. But, it also allows us to have a closer relationship with the customer.

This was the first customer-relationship tool in the industry.

This is not desperation. It's just aggressive competition.

But it was the 39 percent rise in jet fuel costs in the last month alone that pushed us to make this decision.