Flights from FLL to DCA extremely high and no WGA???
Sep 13, 2018, 10:28 am
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Flights from FLL to DCA extremely high and no WGA???
I am very confused about all of this. I usually fly SW and I always see WGA tickets available and I mean ALWAYS. I have been looking from tickets back to DC/BWI from FLL and for December 30th or 31st and they are mostly all $500 and up and not a single WGA option. Now, I understand this the end of the year and it is the holidays but who will want to be flying from a warm and beach weather to snow for New Year’s Eve? However, the tickets from DC/BWI to Fort Lauderdale are so cheap on those same exact days..... That makes absolutely nothing sense to me and I am trying to make some sense of this... Does anybody have any experience with this that can help me understand?
Sep 13, 2018, 12:16 pm
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I was honestly trying to figure out what was going on that was so expensive leaving a warm place to a cold place and how come the tickets leaving the DC area to FLL is very cheap on the same day. My logic was that people would be leaving the cold to go spend New Year’s Eve on a warm place and not the other way around. I guess the Orange Bowl explains it all.
Sep 13, 2018, 12:19 pm
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Same thing happened last year with the Rose Bowl. It was cheaper for me to put my daughter and her boyfriend up in a hotel in California a couple more days than fly them back to ATL from any of the LA airports until a couple days after the game.
Sep 13, 2018, 12:24 pm
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I am screwed!!! The problem is that we are flying from Brazil to Florida and we live in DC. It is 3 adults, a 7 yo and 17 month old baby. I can’t even change the tickets to fly directly to DC instead because flying to Brazil and from Brazil to DC at that time of the year is extremely expensive :-/
After a 13 hours flight to Florida with two little ones I don’t think driving would be doable... I need to suck it up and pay $300 plus baggage thought a different airline— that is better than a $500 ticket :-(
After a 13 hours flight to Florida with two little ones I don’t think driving would be doable... I need to suck it up and pay $300 plus baggage thought a different airline— that is better than a $500 ticket :-(
Sep 13, 2018, 12:42 pm
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I am screwed!!! The problem is that we are flying from Brazil to Florida and we live in DC. It is 3 adults, a 7 yo and 17 month old baby. I can’t even change the tickets to fly directly to DC instead because flying to Brazil and from Brazil to DC at that time of the year is extremely expensive :-/
After a 13 hours flight to Florida with two little ones I don’t think driving would be doable... I need to suck it up and pay $300 plus baggage thought a different airline— that is better than a $500 ticket :-(
After a 13 hours flight to Florida with two little ones I don’t think driving would be doable... I need to suck it up and pay $300 plus baggage thought a different airline— that is better than a $500 ticket :-(
Sep 13, 2018, 12:44 pm
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I was honestly trying to figure out what was going on that was so expensive leaving a warm place to a cold place and how come the tickets leaving the DC area to FLL is very cheap on the same day. My logic was that people would be leaving the cold to go spend New Year’s Eve on a warm place and not the other way around. I guess the Orange Bowl explains it all.
Sep 14, 2018, 5:57 pm
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Perhaps look into Spirit's FLL-BWI. While this is a Southwest forum, Spirit keeps Southwest honest on routes it competes. 
From what I see now, it's more than $100 less per ticket. Try to buy the tickets at an airport counter, where it costs $18.99 less per ticket and the agent might be able to assign seats as well without charge. And for baggage, fit everything in one or two suitcases at 40lbs or less per bag and expect it around $30 per bag.
From what I see now, it's more than $100 less per ticket. Try to buy the tickets at an airport counter, where it costs $18.99 less per ticket and the agent might be able to assign seats as well without charge. And for baggage, fit everything in one or two suitcases at 40lbs or less per bag and expect it around $30 per bag.
Last edited by beyondhere; Sep 14, 2018 at 6:03 pm