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AMTRAK, LONG-DISTANCE TRAINS, AND CONGRESSIONAL FUNDING

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Southwest is pulling out of routes less than 500 miles?   For September 11th Southwest shows approximately 44 daily flights between Dallas and Houston. It offers approximately 26 daily flights between Dallas and San Antonio.  It even has approximately 24 daily flights between Dallas and Austin, a scant 175 miles.  The approximate distance between Dallas and Houston is 240 miles; the approximate distance from Dallas to San Antonio is 275 miles. Southwest has increased the number of flights between Dallas and Houston over the last couple of years. Many of them originate at other points and stop in Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio before continuing on to the aforementioned paired locations in Texas. Southwest has operated this way from the beginning. In its earliest days it flew Dallas to Houston, Harlingen, San Antonio, back to Dallas. And they did it with three airplanes. The Washington to Lynchburg and Washington to Newport News trains are New York to Washington NEC trains that have been extended into Virginia. The distance from NYC to Lynchburg is 405 miles, and the distance from NYC to Newport News is 397 miles. The extensions, however, are keying off a dense corridor as opposed to operating in a stand alone corridor. In FY 12 these trains showed an operating profit. Did they earn an operating profit on the Washington to Virginia legs or is the operating profit a function of the returns generated by the trains in the NYC to DC corridor? Without access to Amtrak's books it is impossible to know.
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