can unused tix be applied to Ding! fares?
Jul 13, 2008, 10:36 am
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can unused tix be applied to Ding! fares?
I have a ticket in September that I won't be using. I can apply that when I buy a Ding fare...is that correct? Thanks...the WN newbie
Jul 17, 2008, 1:55 pm
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Jul 21, 2008, 1:54 am
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I'm not sure what you mean by the second part, you can get credit for the first part of a trip before you take the second part if they're far enough apart (or just use this trick if you're in a particular hurry to get flight credit posted).
Sep 23, 2008, 9:02 am
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Unless you're booking a fare that requires round-trip travel (extremely rare) or a promotion that requires round-trip travel (slightly less rare, but still pretty rare), you should always book trips as one-ways in case you need to change it in the future (e.g., rebook it to take advantage of a lower fare). Even if you have booked a round-trip ticket, I believe you can cancel just half by phone reservations.
Sep 23, 2008, 9:06 am
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Beckles, isn't there one potential disadvantage to this - if you book 2 one ways and want to cancel and use them in the future, doesn't this limit you to being able to only use the value from one of the at a time? I guess you could cancel both and then rebook two more one ways, but if the new fares are lower you may end up with a nuisance relatively small unused value on each of the two one way tickets after rebooking. Unless there is some way to combine the remaining value of more than one ticket that I haven't picked up on yet?
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Sep 23, 2008, 9:17 am
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Sep 23, 2008, 9:19 am
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Sorry. FT mangled the URL upon saving the post. Second try:
http://flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Mixing_funds_(SWA)
http://flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Mixing_funds_(SWA)
Sep 23, 2008, 3:55 pm
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Even without any work-arounds, as shown in the links above, you can apply two ticketless funds to each reservation. Personally I don't bother combining funds, I never have a problem using the ones I have on future reservations because of this, but YMMV.