Originally Posted by
brightongal1950
First..I would be remiss in stating I find this site a little confusing. I loved Southwest's Community Forum now feel lost to find out stuff. I had been following SW flights for awhile waiting for the Holiday 2025 flight schedule to be released. So I set my alarm to be present for the 7AM EST release to grab a good fair. I assumed the new schedule would be similar, just extended , times, stops etc. NOT..the flight I was tracking with only one stop, $289 for Anytime and I recall total flight time was less than 7 hours. Now, instead of leaving out of Arizona at 6:30am, it shows 5:00am and costs several dollars more. The number of potential flights have greatly shrank, all of them with 2 stops and 9-11 hours flights. My question is will this change again and show more flights like before? Sorry to say I looked at Delta, which had better options however not refundable in my price range. Very dissapointing..Also looks like Southwest's flight records during the Thanksgiving time was bad, cancellations etc. Stated Southwest represented over 70% of cancelled flights??? Is this true? Thank you ..
We have seen cases where WGA fares were not released immediately at the schedule opening, but instead delayed several hours.
As to the schedule options being thinned out, welcome to my world. Intra-CA city pairs which once had hourly flights now have gaps of several hours between flights.