I <3 Southwest Airlines

[sarahmichelef]

We are traveling to St. Louis over Labor Day weekend for a wedding.  (Yay!)  M and I each happen to have a free round trip on Southwest - we probably would have flown SWA there ANYWAY, but that made it a no-brainer.  So I called up the friendly customer service line today and talked to my new friend Anita.  Told her what we wanted to do - I had jotted down the flights I wanted to take and had the SWA website up as I talked to her.

She said, "OK.  Here's what we're going to do.  You're going to buy two one-way Internet Special tickets TO St. Louis, and then we'll use the free flights to do one round-trip and two return flights, because there aren't any cheap fares for Monday."  (Duh.  Monday is Labor Day.  Of course there aren't any cheap fares.)  It took probably 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with us carefully coordinating our actions, but I bought one-way tickets for M and TRex and she booked a free roundtrip for me and free returns for each of them.  Hooray for SWA operating exclusively as one-way flights.  Hooray for going to the wedding!  We still have to book a hotel room & rent a car, but the flights are taken care of at least.

(In other I <3 SWA news, I'm flying to Seattle in October for similarly cheap fares, because they had an $80 one-way special.  Hooray!)

Comments

[laurakc.livejournal.com]

I so wish SWA flew to Madison...

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that be lovely? Does Midwest fly to St. Louis, or is that too far south for them?

[laurakc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they do, but we never fly to StL. Too much hassle with security, not having a car once we get there, etc. And not really all that much faster.