Flight cancelled 3 months out? Southwest will rebook you for worst alternative!
Sep 10, 2018, 2:07 pm
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I have my own experiance. I have flown 25-50 flights a year for about 30 years. Over that time I have generally flown a single airline for a time, that has included several different airlines I have flown Southwest mostly for the last 5-6 years I have not had any significant schedule changes. I think this is because Southwest releases their schedule in relatively short increments and changes the schedule when they do that. On previous airlines that happened far more often, sometimes only a few minutes schedule change sometimes a few hours, occasionally a flight was cancelled. This does not include IROPs.
With Southwest I almost never see a schedule change, even when I book a 6-month-out flight fairly close to when the schedule was released. Obviously it *does* happen, but I really do believe at a lot lower frequency than with the hub carriers.
Sep 10, 2018, 2:19 pm
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This. If I book a UA or AA itin many months in advance, it's almost guaranteed that it'll move around a bit. In fact, I assume it will - and have used 1+ hour changes to my advantage to phone the web support line and get rebooked to something I would have rather had to begin with. @:-)
With Southwest I almost never see a schedule change, even when I book a 6-month-out flight fairly close to when the schedule was released. Obviously it *does* happen, but I really do believe at a lot lower frequency than with the hub carriers.
With Southwest I almost never see a schedule change, even when I book a 6-month-out flight fairly close to when the schedule was released. Obviously it *does* happen, but I really do believe at a lot lower frequency than with the hub carriers.
