Southwest Raised Fares Again Today
Feb 27, 2011, 11:44 am
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Southwest Raised Fares Again Today
I surfed around on some trips yesterday, and went back today and all of them were up at least $10-20 roundtrip. Seems like WN is becoming the leader in raising prices -on a weekly basis.
Feb 27, 2011, 11:45 am
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Why does it surprise you? Oil prices have gone up $20 in two weeks...
Why does it surprise you? Oil prices have gone up $20 in two weeks...
Feb 27, 2011, 1:33 pm
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Maybe they are raising to match the other carriers that are raising theirs recently.
Feb 27, 2011, 5:00 pm
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RT coast to coast flights on BS have now reached $988 round trip. So, after tax, it's now possible to spend over $1,000 with WN on a single rt ticket.
Feb 27, 2011, 5:39 pm
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+1 Prices at the pump have gone up a staggering amount as well.
Feb 27, 2011, 9:46 pm
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Feb 27, 2011, 9:55 pm
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Feb 28, 2011, 12:22 am
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Feb 28, 2011, 7:05 am
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PHX-SAT is $205 R/T (a.i.) on some dates in April, DL matched (within $5 each way), but no one else did. WN and US, the only airlines that fly the route non-stop, dropped their fares from $169 each way to $129, but that was it.
Needless to say, what was to be my first flight on WN in almost a year has become yet another on UA/CO.
Mar 1, 2011, 11:06 am
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Absolutely absurd!!!!!
Yesterday I booked 2 RT tickets TUS-PDX 5/11-5/15 and paid 624.60 for both tickets.
Just went out and checked today, same days, same flights, guess what:
$817.60. That is a mere $193.00 increase. I was going to calculate the percentage increase, but my calculator overloaded, too much to compute !!!
What more is there to say
GVretiredguy
Just went out and checked today, same days, same flights, guess what:
$817.60. That is a mere $193.00 increase. I was going to calculate the percentage increase, but my calculator overloaded, too much to compute !!!
What more is there to say
GVretiredguy
Mar 1, 2011, 11:10 am
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WN has already raised the $142 PIT-AUS OW fare twice, first to $144, then to $154. Last night around fare update time there was a discrepancy between the calendar ($154) and the flight quote page ($144), indicating the fare was in the process of being changed.
Call it the RR 2.0 surcharge!
Call it the RR 2.0 surcharge!
Mar 1, 2011, 11:53 am
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I am going to Chicago memorial day weekend. Southwest was a LOT more than Delta returning on that monday returning from MDW to DTW. Not a hard choice as to who to use on that trip, especially with RR 2.0.