Southwest Rapid Rewards - any tools to track price drops for southwest flights?
bobloblaw
Aug 31, 12, 7:05 pm
I booked flights for my family in the winter, and i'm wondering if there is a tool available that can track southwest price drops/alerts for specific routes and flights? seems like a lot of third party tools don't include southwest pricing in it
lougord99
Sep 1, 12, 5:30 am
None that I am aware of.
InkUnderNails
Sep 1, 12, 7:36 am
Tripit Pro sends me notifications for flights that go down in price that I have bought and are part of itineraries stored in my trips. It is not 100% and it has no provision to track flights for which I am speculating buying.
WN prices are available only on their web site and they are very aggressive in preventing and stopping bots and scans of prices. Other airlines have pricing available on "public" web sites.
carraher
Sep 1, 12, 4:29 pm
I agree and have found Tripit Pro to be very sporadic in notifying about price drops. It's nice to have but can't be depended upon.
InkUnderNails
Sep 1, 12, 6:23 pm
I agree and have found Tripit Pro to be very sporadic in notifying about price drops. It's nice to have but can't be depended upon.
I use it because it saves at least the membership cost per year and the text flight updates are far superior to ones that WN does not send.
eethan
Sep 3, 12, 10:25 pm
Tracking price drops are useful because WN allows you to exchange tickets w/o fee when the price drops.--you get back the fair difference as a credit.
zachary
Sep 4, 12, 7:01 am
Airfarewatchdog.com does track WN prices, but not for specific dates and times. You have to set up an alert and then go and manually check your dates and flights.
But it is free.
MKE Sam
Sep 4, 12, 2:31 pm
IIRC WN tends to make fare adjustments on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I track all purchases in a spreadsheet and verify all pending trips at least once each week (I typically have 4 -6 upcoming one way trips booked at a time).