Why is Oct 20th a system wide blackout date?
Oct 10, 2013, 5:29 pm
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Why is Oct 20th a system wide blackout date?
Why is Oct 20th a system wide blackout date for FF miles?? I can understand some of the other dates but can't figure out why for Oct 20th?
Oct 10, 2013, 6:20 pm
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It's an odd date. Perhaps historically there's a high volume of people traveling back on the Sunday after Columbus Day.
Oct 11, 2013, 5:33 am
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October 20th is National Brandied Fruit Day. I am not making this up. But I am not sure why this generated a blackout date.
Oct 11, 2013, 7:39 am
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Several years ago US expanded the number of blackout days, so I suspect that some don't match major holidays.
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Oct 11, 2013, 10:15 pm
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A similar Sunday in October used to be a blackout date for Southwest Freedom Awards (and there were no blackout dates around Labor Day). I asked about it on the WN forum, and the best reason given was that several states have teachers' conventions in the days before that and the schools are closed, so many leisure travelers are returning that day. In any case, it was presumed that it was decided based on a pattern of heavy travel.
Oct 12, 2013, 7:38 am
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Are mileage upgrades also completely blacked out that day system wide? I am looking at a las-clt upgrade and was told that nothing was available that day. Although we are still 8 days out.
Oct 12, 2013, 8:11 am
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It's obviously in memory of the Lynyrd Skynyrd tragedy.
Oct 12, 2013, 8:53 am
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I believe a mileage upgrade comes from the same bucket as "low" redemption F award tickets, so you will probably not find anything.
Last edited by PHL; Oct 12, 2013 at 10:44 am