Well, this is random. Found WN on an OTA
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New Look for Booking Flights on Southwest.com
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It is much faster reading them left to right, kind of like faster scanning a digital boarding pass....
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But you do understand the issue I have, right? For almost 15 years I've been reading right-to-left on the WN site when I look for fares, and if it's going to change at random like that, I may think there's no cheap fares for a given flight and decide not to go, especially if I'm otherwise distracted.
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IIRC, the whole point of Skiplagged is to find hidden-city opportunities. So what it found is SFO-LAS-XXX for $191, in theory. I wonder if this actually happened and was bookable.
Which begs two questions - one, why the heck is SFO-LAS $320, and what's that other city that drops it to $191?
Oh, and then the obvious question of why WN fares are showing up in Skiplagged at all.
Which begs two questions - one, why the heck is SFO-LAS $320, and what's that other city that drops it to $191?
Oh, and then the obvious question of why WN fares are showing up in Skiplagged at all.
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IIRC, the whole point of Skiplagged is to find hidden-city opportunities. So what it found is SFO-LAS-XXX for $191, in theory. I wonder if this actually happened and was bookable.
Which begs two questions - one, why the heck is SFO-LAS $320, and what's that other city that drops it to $191?
Oh, and then the obvious question of why WN fares are showing up in Skiplagged at all.
Which begs two questions - one, why the heck is SFO-LAS $320, and what's that other city that drops it to $191?
Oh, and then the obvious question of why WN fares are showing up in Skiplagged at all.
And here we have definitive proof that reversing the BS>AT>WGA order is a bad idea. (Or a good idea from Southwest's perspective, if it tricks people this way.)
Look again.
Skiplagged is showing the exact same flights and fares as the WN website, but adding a variable "service fee." That's all.
Your last question is of course very valid.
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