Originally Posted by
tys90
In my experience, Southwest starts to ramp up their price pretty fast starting 1 week out from travel. Interesting that you found a fare that didn't follow that.
My experience is a few years old, but I've flown Southwest once when I had to make a last minute trip and it was >$1000 on UA, DL, and AA, but $299 on Southwest. I'm sure it has to do with loads, also.
Of course, I live so far from MDW that I swore never to do that again.
