Originally posted by Tango:
Hop a Long: Southwest only has minimal participation with CRS systems to save money. The savings translates into cheaper fares for the consumer. Anyone who thinks Southwest is trying to hide something or gouge consumers should take a good hard look at a travel fare map. It can be divided into 2 different markets---Cities served by Southwest and those not served by Southwest. Guess what? The cities served by Southwest are much cheaper than the non-Southwest cities---every single time!!!!
Without Southwest Airlines, everyone would be paying more in airfares.
Howdy! I come back from a lil vacation and we got some action going on!
Well sure Southwest serves alternative areas which great. The issue here is that Southwest is mad that Orbitz published their publicly published fares...what's so misleading about that? Southwest can do what ever it wishes as far as keeping certain flights to itslef and its website--but it doesn't seem to me that Orbitz is misleading anyone by publishing what everey other travel site has access to?! (am I offbase?)
To me it seems Southwest is thrashing out without a concrete reason other than Orbitz seems to be showing lower fares on Orbitz.com...
-The Chief