any tools to track price drops for southwest flights?
Aug 31, 2012, 7:05 pm
#1
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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any tools to track price drops for southwest flights?
I booked flights for my family in the winter, and i'm wondering if there is a tool available that can track southwest price drops/alerts for specific routes and flights? seems like a lot of third party tools don't include southwest pricing in it
Sep 1, 2012, 7:36 am
#3
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
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Tripit Pro sends me notifications for flights that go down in price that I have bought and are part of itineraries stored in my trips. It is not 100% and it has no provision to track flights for which I am speculating buying.
WN prices are available only on their web site and they are very aggressive in preventing and stopping bots and scans of prices. Other airlines have pricing available on "public" web sites.
WN prices are available only on their web site and they are very aggressive in preventing and stopping bots and scans of prices. Other airlines have pricing available on "public" web sites.
Sep 1, 2012, 6:23 pm
#5
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I use it because it saves at least the membership cost per year and the text flight updates are far superior to ones that WN does not send.
Feb 27, 2014, 3:46 pm
#9
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Any update on this? I also have some WN flights booked and I'd like to get an alert if the fligths drops in price. Heck, I'd even be willing to share the savings.
Dec 11, 2014, 1:19 am
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I wish. Best option for west coast routes is to subscribe to emails from JetBlue and Virgin America. When they have special sale prices Southwest often silently matches them.
Dec 11, 2014, 6:49 am
#13
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hm hm this is certainly interesting.
For various reasons, southwest doesn't really let anyone get their pricing data. They're pretty protective about it, and I'm not really sure how airfarewatchdog gets away with what it does.
My guess is that eventually southwest will send airfarewatchdog with a C&D.
but that said, someone I know ... might know something?
For various reasons, southwest doesn't really let anyone get their pricing data. They're pretty protective about it, and I'm not really sure how airfarewatchdog gets away with what it does.
My guess is that eventually southwest will send airfarewatchdog with a C&D.
but that said, someone I know ... might know something?
Dec 11, 2014, 10:28 am
#14
Join Date: Jul 2013
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There is some leakage of Southwest fare information onto some of the business travel systems used by large companies. Perhaps that's where farewatchdog gets their information.
I'm not really sure Southwest can do much about someone publishing their fares if you don't violate the ToS for their website.
I'm not really sure Southwest can do much about someone publishing their fares if you don't violate the ToS for their website.