Advantage to booking one-way legs over RT booking?
Jan 22, 2012, 2:57 pm
#1
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Programs: southwest
Posts: 2
Advantage to booking one-way legs over RT booking?
I've seen folks discussing multi-city bookings vs. booking one-ways.
What's the advantage to booking the legs as one-ways rather than a conventional RT purchase?
I'm A-List Preferred, flying about 60 RTs/yr and haven't has any issues so far.
thx
What's the advantage to booking the legs as one-ways rather than a conventional RT purchase?
I'm A-List Preferred, flying about 60 RTs/yr and haven't has any issues so far.
thx
Jan 22, 2012, 3:37 pm
#2
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: DEN
Programs: WN A-List Preferred, UA 2P, HH Diamond, MR Platinum
Posts: 18
I always do one ways opposed to round trips for the simplicity of it. If I need to make a change to the return trip, it seems simpler to me to just make the change to a full ticket.
Jan 22, 2012, 3:39 pm
#3
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: ORD, MDW or MKE
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Multi-city bookings are a totally different issue than one-way or round trip. There is absolutely no reason to book round trips, unless there the unusual round trip promotion.
With one-ways you can: change, cancel, refare, skip either leg without affecting the other leg. You ask what the advantage is to one-way bookings. I would say why book a round trip? I simply never do roundtrips.
With one-ways you can: change, cancel, refare, skip either leg without affecting the other leg. You ask what the advantage is to one-way bookings. I would say why book a round trip? I simply never do roundtrips.
Jan 23, 2012, 3:48 pm
#5
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: IND
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Reward changes are the main thing for me. I can flip one segment from cash to a points award. If I booked a roundtrip you have to cancel the whole thing just to change one part of it from cash to points or points to cash.
Jan 24, 2012, 6:33 am
#6
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: STL
Posts: 1,547
Let's say I book AAA-BBB and the return trip BBB-AAA the next day as a round trip ticket. The AAA-BBB flight is canceled, and because of the short duration of the trip, it's just no longer worth it. Pretty sure, in that scenario, WN would issue a full refund.
Now, what if they're booked as separate trips. Would Southwest refund the BBB-AAA segment?
Now, what if they're booked as separate trips. Would Southwest refund the BBB-AAA segment?
Jan 24, 2012, 6:41 am
#7
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Location: St Petersburg, FL, USA
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Let's say I book AAA-BBB and the return trip BBB-AAA the next day as a round trip ticket. The AAA-BBB flight is canceled, and because of the short duration of the trip, it's just no longer worth it. Pretty sure, in that scenario, WN would issue a full refund.
Now, what if they're booked as separate trips. Would Southwest refund the BBB-AAA segment?
Now, what if they're booked as separate trips. Would Southwest refund the BBB-AAA segment?
Unless you are not going to fly again within 12 months...
Jan 24, 2012, 7:05 am
#8
Join Date: Oct 2005
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What Tino said. However, I am also fairly confident that a call to customer service would get you a refund of BBB-AAA when they clearly saw you were doing a round trip.