Changes to the Flat Tire rule
#16
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LAS
Posts: 1,525
Huh? If you are talking last minute purchases, WGA wouldn't available anyway due to advance purchase requirements. Flat-tire rule is meant for limited usage in specific cases, it's not supposed to be used as a free same-day standby option. If WN thought free same-day standby was a good idea, they'd offer it.
#17
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LAS
Posts: 1,525
"Huh?" back at ya. What advance purchase requirements are those? I definitely purchased a WGA fare (on points, but that shouldn't make a difference) last December less than 8 hours before flight time. (My flight on a different airline from a different -- but nearby enough -- airport had gotten cancelled due to weather at that other airline's connecting airport, and they were not able to rebook me for travel that same day. So I tried the Southwest website, and found a WGA points fare, and had plenty enough points, so I grabbed it, changed my car rental to return to the different airport, and got home on time.)
#18
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
Programs: WN Nothing and spending the half million points from too many flights, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 8,043
"Huh?" back at ya. What advance purchase requirements are those? I definitely purchased a WGA fare (on points, but that shouldn't make a difference) last December less than 8 hours before flight time. (My flight on a different airline from a different -- but nearby enough -- airport had gotten cancelled due to weather at that other airline's connecting airport, and they were not able to rebook me for travel that same day. So I tried the Southwest website, and found a WGA points fare, and had plenty enough points, so I grabbed it, changed my car rental to return to the different airport, and got home on time.)
#19
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 22,927
I'm not even talking about last minute purchases. I'm talking about the OP and others booking in advance. When the OP bought the WGA, it may have been the last one in the fare bucket. Then, someone else came along looking to book and WGA was sold out...in advance (like, for instance, a month ahead of time). The other passenger may have gone ahead and booked with another airlines, because WGA was sold out and Anytime or BS was too expensive. Am I making sense?
Last edited by xliioper; Oct 19, 2013 at 8:53 am