Originally Posted by
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Also IROPS should be better with 1K.
Should be? I would hope! LOL.
Coworker takes Southwest LAX-SFO Monday mornings. He's been cancelled on about 33% of the time, flight cancelled for no reason. It's been really bad as of late. Southwest only allows you to "re-book" on their flights. So now you went from an A boarding pass to a C boarding pass, and you have 2.5 hours to kill for the next nonstop WN flight. And if that one is sold out, then 4 hours.
I take the United LAX-SFO flight Monday mornings / Friday mornings. When UA delayed for 2 hours (only happened once so far), they offered to put me on an AA flight, a DL flight, or offered to protect me on another UA flight so that I could have that option if that plane went out first.
Just knowing that SOMETIMES (and to be honest its most times in my experience) that UA will handle IRROPS better than WN, is worth it.