Southwest Airlines Community

@rlabardi wrote: Southwest is misleading passengers when they call it Early Boarding! Don't worry - the lawyers have read that and it is called "Early Bird Check In"     ... View more

Hello. This is the same exact response I got from Chase regarding the promotion that I signed up for. Was there any resolution ? My husband referred me and was told he would get his 25,000 and still have not!!!!  ... View more

I would wrap the folded beach chair in beach towels and then pack it flat in a cardboard box.  You can strategically make a cardboard box to custom fit it by using one or two other large cardboard boxes that are cut to size and securely taped together.   Write FRAGILE in red on all sides of the box.     To avoid excess size charges, the finished box will need to be equal to or less than 62 inches in size (outside length plus height plus width).   Also be aware that you will not be entitled to reimbursement or compensation if it is damaged, as this will be a situation where limited release of liability applies.   Safe travels! ... View more

I have the priority card and like the $75 travel credit, 7500 annual points, and 4 upgrades. Certain times of year there will be bonus point promotions, which is a good time to use the card but if you only get 1 point for $1 spent then it's time to use another card. The downside is the $149 annual fee. I've heard some people have called and asked for a waiver and got it but I have not yet tried that. ... View more

Is this still accurate. I have a LUV Voucher in my wife's name, good until this coming Aug. And like the OP, I would like to use it towards a flight for my mother to come and visit. It has a Voucher Number and a Security Code. If I can, can she make the reservation in her SW account and just enter the Voucher Info. OR, do we need to make the booking logged in under my wife's SW Account and my mother can reimburse us for the amount above the $100 voucher? Thank you. ... View more

@eosphorus wrote: Or since they are charging people to give them an early bird they could pay a decent dev to write code to not make that seat available and instead assign it to the earliest person that bought an early bird and then keep following that algorithm till no early birds are left. Most other airlines do something similar. From a guy that was a dev in an airline  Former dev but not a former Southwest passenger? The seats aren't assigned on Southwest.         ... View more

Because Southwest will offer points when booking through them ... View more

I heckled and my Android OS was already upgraded to 11. I’m tempted to by an iPad just so I can watch movies on my flights.  ... View more

@bec102896 wrote: if your doing a round trip flight and one way is say 7,900 and she has 8k I would book 2 one ways so you can use points at least one way.  Nailed it @bec102896 ! ... View more

If you use an Apple device - virtually no issues.   If you use a non-Apple device - virtually nothing but problems. ... View more

I have a Samsung 22S Ultra and a Samaung 6 Ultra Lite tablet, was recently on SW flight and was unable  to watch movie on SW entertainment. I did get on their wifi, but could not access their entertainment. ... View more

In my experiences over the last couple years, Upgrades have been available about 75% of the time. That was purchasing them at the check in desk or gate desk. ... View more

That's what I always told my business peers.  For any meeting, I flew in the night before.  PERIOD   I have watched people stroll in after lunch many, many times when the meeting started at 8:00 AM.  You basically wasted your time if you missed more than half of the day.   Getting people to change is like getting a mountain to speak.     Everyone knows best and everyone is the expert, especially here on this board. ... View more

@KJohns36 wrote:     After taking off from Little Rock, were you served? ... View more

Wow this is great news!!  ... View more

May be I was too vague in my original post , my trip is for pleasure in January, the week after this new ticket window opened up, to the Caribbean, for a Saturday to Saturday vacation. For work purposes, I agree, the sweet spot is about 4 to 6 weeks out, but in this case I am going to bet the fares won't being dropping unless another "shutdown" happens. Why? The hotels on this island are mostly booked up at this point and the rates have escalated based on the availability/occupancy for that week in January. All those folks are flying there.   BTW, for this particular itinerary as of this morning the Wanna Get Away and Plus fares are now gone and there only 3 Business Select Fares left on the outbound flight. Oh, and the point total for the roundtrip is 71,629.  Your mileage may vary Safe travels ... View more

In addition to what was mentioned already did the whole $250 voucher work on a flight for 2 people taxes might exceed the $47 so that one voucher might still have a few dollars left (every cent counts) don’t throw it away/delete the email until you make sure all funds were used.  ... View more

Can you go to Hawaii "for free" if traveling for a 30 minute flight and the 0 minute got rescheduled ... View more

Another reason to always try and book with points. I know conventional wisdom says it's a bad idea to buy points because you pay slightly more, up the upside is that it is 100% refundable. I look at it as travel insurance. ... View more

@rich1954 wrote: 45% would be the best I have ever seen. If you can buy points for less than 1.5 cents a point it might be worthwhile. Only if you need to use them right away and you wouldn't have any method of earning them through flights, other travel, shopping, etc.    That's about break-even on the valuations that you can find online for what you can redeem them for, so not horrible but there still might be other ways to earn the points for taking an activity that you were going to do anyway.   But if you need them right now to book something before you could earn them, go ahead.     ... View more

Fedex your bags ahead. ... View more

@pennynots88 wrote: I think the stupidity is picking arbitrary dates without justification or metrics.   What's magic about next winter?  Thanks for quoting me from last year.   Apparently winter isn't magic enough... make it spring now.  ... View more

@PaulM1 wrote: The proposed resolution was either/or - not and/both. The airline was “not” willing to do anything. The employee (agent) clearly did “not” understand the terms of the promotion (as explained to us). The ticket was purchased based on the assurance from the agent that we would qualify. I guess what you’re saying is that employees are not a good source information for how things (like companion promotions) work. At least you and I agree that customers should not rely on what employees say. They can't add a companion pass like that it isn't one of the things a phone rep can do, and refunding is also an issue. The best you could probably do is get a LUV voucher but if you won't be flying Southwest then that offering wouldn't be useful to you anyway.         ... View more

Not sure what happened in your case.   I went back and checked and found that i got the e-mail notifying me that I had qualified on the same date as my second qualifying flight.   edit add: my guess is that, for whatever reason, SW's computer system did not think that you had qualified ... View more

@rich1954 wrote: The points guy claims RR points are worth 1.5 cents a point.   The points guy is a bit incorrect here. Bloggers often are. 😉 It's not untrue, but it's also not the full story.   Southwest charges 83 points per $1 of base fare. This means the literal value of a point is 1.2 cents.   But, as I mentioned above, since points bookings don't incur all of the taxes & fees charged on cash ones, the realized point value can fluctuate. You get better value on flights with lower fares since the taxes & fees represent a larger portion of the cash fare, which you don't pay on a points booking. Some people realize points values of as high as 1.8 cents per point. (Even higher if you factor in the Companion Pass, which some bloggers do, but which isn't particularly useful for anything other than allowing a high points value claim.)   Back in the good old days, savvy travelers often realized points values above 2 cents. Sigh.   Since realized point value can fluctuate depending on the specific fare, it's better to use the fixed value when making comparisons over time. For example, when Southwest makes changes to the Rapid Rewards program, which historically tend to be implemented about every 2 years. These changes reduce the value of RR points.   Note: We're overdue for a program change likely held back due to the pandemic, and April has historically been devaluation month. 😕   ... View more

If there credit good, have your spouse or companion apply for the card and you become the companion.  ... View more

@bwallet wrote: @mariogodinez I guess that I'm very confused by this. If you are an A-Lister, how could you not manage to use a couple of vouchers in a year period? I must have cycled through a couple of dozen of them last year. The travel fund was in the relative's name unfortunately.     ... View more