[Targeted] Free changes due to rescheduling; move up to + or - 14 days, twice!
Mar 24, 2021, 2:03 pm
#406
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Mar 24, 2021, 5:01 pm
#407
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they are running a promo of 20% off points booking so once it's over hopefully fares will go back to previous levels
Mar 24, 2021, 5:24 pm
#408
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Right now demand is increasing but capacity is still significantly limited, which I suspect is leading to fare increases. Things should level off or drop back down once capacity increases again.
Mar 27, 2021, 5:09 am
#409
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Mar 29, 2021, 12:53 pm
#411
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They will come back, hopefully, on Wednesday night. What did hurt me a little was WN relocating last week to Terminal G @ MIA from Terminal H. Now NO way of getting into the Turkish Lounge when waiting for a flight. If allowed by all this changes, I am moving my flights to more convenient FLL focus city, as MIA's attractiveness just got killed by WN relocating to F9's terminal and sharing it half and half. The winner was UA, which use to operate from G and now is fully relocated to H.
Mar 30, 2021, 3:49 am
#412
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They will come back, hopefully, on Wednesday night. What did hurt me a little was WN relocating last week to Terminal G @ MIA from Terminal H. Now NO way of getting into the Turkish Lounge when waiting for a flight. If allowed by all this changes, I am moving my flights to more convenient FLL focus city, as MIA's attractiveness just got killed by WN relocating to F9's terminal and sharing it half and half. The winner was UA, which use to operate from G and now is fully relocated to H.
Apr 1, 2021, 8:16 am
#414
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He said "hopefully" and to be fair, when it does come, its comes typically on Wednesdays. Moreover, SW knows about this and posting here is not impactful nor was deleting the original thread on this topic. The changes will keep coming until SW has no commercial reason to keep them going (i.e., the pandemic ends)
Apr 1, 2021, 9:34 am
#415
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He said "hopefully" and to be fair, when it does come, its comes typically on Wednesdays. Moreover, SW knows about this and posting here is not impactful nor was deleting the original thread on this topic. The changes will keep coming until SW has no commercial reason to keep them going (i.e., the pandemic ends)
Everyone is capable of noticing these “red bars” - no need to shout it from the mountaintop.
Apr 1, 2021, 12:10 pm
#416
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Of course SW knows about this, but this page is exploiting the airline’s very generous policy. The intention is to reduce call volume for passengers to adjust their reservation if they’re not happy with the auto re-booking, not to book a new flight for cheap and move it. They of course monitor this forum and likely reduce the frequency as a result of the constant promotion of the “free changes”.
Everyone is capable of noticing these “red bars” - no need to shout it from the mountaintop.
Everyone is capable of noticing these “red bars” - no need to shout it from the mountaintop.
These free changes have been going on for about 2 years now ever since the MAX 8 was taken OOS.
Posting here when changes are permitted is the reason for this thread and the threads that were created years ago and is not going to change anything SW does as EVERY major BLOGGER is posting the same thing.
Paying in points is the reason this works for me and at times I have over 50K points out just on my dummy (lowest price) reservations, most people don't have the points necessary to make one reservation plus another at the lowest fare........if you use $$ you get a travel credit which WN holds ( and has an expiration date) vs points that are refunded. I'm sure WN loves holding $$$ they know they never have to refund and may expire worthless.
The people who have been doing this a long time knew the chances of free changes being announced a day before the new schedule release was slim to none.
Apr 1, 2021, 12:16 pm
#417
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These free changes have been going on for about 2 years now ever since the MAX 8 was taken OOS.
Posting here when changes are permitted is the reason for this thread and the threads that were created years ago and is not going to change anything SW does as EVERY major BLOGGER is posting the same thing.
Paying in points is the reason this works for me and at times I have over 50K points out just on my dummy (lowest price) reservations, most people don't have the points necessary to make one reservation plus another at the lowest fare........if you use $$ you get a travel credit which WN holds ( and has an expiration date) vs points that are refunded. I'm sure WN loves holding $$$ they know they never have to refund and may expire worthless.
The people who have been doing this a long time knew the chances of free changes being announced a day before the new schedule release was slim to none.
Posting here when changes are permitted is the reason for this thread and the threads that were created years ago and is not going to change anything SW does as EVERY major BLOGGER is posting the same thing.
Paying in points is the reason this works for me and at times I have over 50K points out just on my dummy (lowest price) reservations, most people don't have the points necessary to make one reservation plus another at the lowest fare........if you use $$ you get a travel credit which WN holds ( and has an expiration date) vs points that are refunded. I'm sure WN loves holding $$$ they know they never have to refund and may expire worthless.
The people who have been doing this a long time knew the chances of free changes being announced a day before the new schedule release was slim to none.
The people who have been doing this for a long time keep their tales between their legs, with their heads down, and consistently look for the red bar without telling every Tom, Dick or Stanley.
Apr 1, 2021, 7:09 pm
#418
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Bingo buddy! Why do you think every blogger is posting about it? Because they look here to see people shouting it from the mountaintops! That’s the quickest way for it to stop happening.
The people who have been doing this for a long time keep their tales between their legs, with their heads down, and consistently look for the red bar without telling every Tom, Dick or Stanley.
The people who have been doing this for a long time keep their tales between their legs, with their heads down, and consistently look for the red bar without telling every Tom, Dick or Stanley.
I have been refaring for ~ 2 years and when I see it open I post it for others and from time to time I see it posted here first............that's how the forum works.
After 2 YEARS I'm PRETTY sure WN knows what is going on and it will end soon because the Max is back in service and future schedules ( like the one released today) will need less tweaking as more and more people travel..........not because WN read their policy on FT, lol
Apr 1, 2021, 7:36 pm
#419
Join Date: Mar 2020
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The major bloggers don't get the vast majority of their info off of Flyertalk..............it's the other way around where a member here reposts the bloggers info.
I have been refaring for ~ 2 years and when I see it open I post it for others and from time to time I see it posted here first............that's how the forum works.
After 2 YEARS I'm PRETTY sure WN knows what is going on and it will end soon because the Max is back in service and future schedules ( like the one released today) will need less tweaking as more and more people travel..........not because WN read their policy on FT, lol
I have been refaring for ~ 2 years and when I see it open I post it for others and from time to time I see it posted here first............that's how the forum works.
After 2 YEARS I'm PRETTY sure WN knows what is going on and it will end soon because the Max is back in service and future schedules ( like the one released today) will need less tweaking as more and more people travel..........not because WN read their policy on FT, lol
That’s how you ruin it for everyone lol
Apr 1, 2021, 8:03 pm
#420
Join Date: Feb 2009
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At the beginning you could actually buy a ticket within the window and change it immediately, there was no pre planning involved.
This link started in March 2019, he must have found the STEP BY STEP INFO WITH PICS posted on FT, lol
https://www.dansdeals.com/airfare-de...ive-ever-seen/
Originally posted on 3/15/19:
Southwest currently has an insanely generous systemwide change policy for all March flights.
You can change any flight booked for travel in March to another flight within 14 days for free. Southwest never charges change fees, but currently they will also waive the fare difference.
Best of all you can make the changes online and this policy applies to paid flights and award flights.
With a 24 hour cancellation policy, I figured I’d see how exactly this worked when buying a new ticket today.
Last edited by flyer4512; Apr 1, 2021 at 8:15 pm