Annoying "Book your low fare to X!" emails

Old Jul 16, 2022, 4:00 am
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Annoying "Book your low fare to X!" emails

Every time I make the mistake of browsing for flights while logged in, I get an annoying follow-up email telling me to book whatever I searched for but didn't book right then. These emails are completely useless and very annoying.

Is there any way to disable them?
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Old Jul 16, 2022, 5:48 am
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I get them even when not logged in due to the cookie tracking.
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Old Jul 16, 2022, 7:02 am
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seems to be happening more than in the past.....
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Old Jul 16, 2022, 8:12 am
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Sounds like a good use case for an email rule to send these to a very special folder
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Old Jul 16, 2022, 3:37 pm
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They are stalking you….
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Old Jul 17, 2022, 6:49 pm
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At least they dont call you like Carnival Cruise Lines do. I told them Ill never cruise Carnival owned lines again and theyve stopped, of course Im never cruising them again anyway
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Old Jul 18, 2022, 10:33 am
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OPs complaint first surfaced in 2019:

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Old Jul 18, 2022, 12:57 pm
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Incognito mode is your friend. It's the only way I've found to avoid it.

And yes, it's really annoying, if anyone from WN is listening.
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Old Jul 18, 2022, 1:09 pm
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Originally Posted by zachary
Incognito mode is your friend. It's the only way I've found to avoid it.

And yes, it's really annoying, if anyone from WN is listening.
If the numbers show that it makes money for Southwest, it will continue. Annoyance is hard to quantify and has almost no lasting effect on purchase decisions.

Set up up your email filters and you won't see it.
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Old Jul 18, 2022, 7:14 pm
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Originally Posted by nsx
If the numbers show that it makes money for Southwest, it will continue. Annoyance is hard to quantify and has almost no lasting effect on purchase decisions.

Set up up your email filters and you won't see it.
Other airlines do the same thing, so I assume it works.
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Old Mar 2, 2023, 1:09 am
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Southwest's new tactic is "That $X flight from A to B (ABC) is ready and waiting."

Buying a flight is not like leaving a website without buying a bag of pretzels. If someone leaves a site without buying a flight, there's a good reason for it.

swaMark PLEASE make a way to opt out of these emails.
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Old Mar 2, 2023, 10:59 am
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Sometimes they come to me even after I booked the flight. You'd think their algo can at least look for that.
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Old Mar 2, 2023, 4:57 pm
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What I "love", having been A-Llist+ since its inception is the "Have you booked your hotel/rental car?" E-mails, as if I'd forget. But like the "Book your low fare to ..." E-mails, I just ignore those too. NBD.

But we FFs have to remember there's a lot more of us who don't fly as often as we do, and it's in WN's fiscal favor to send these.
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Old Mar 4, 2023, 4:25 pm
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It could be even a bit worse:

One hotel program sent me an email "still looking to book a stay in XXX?" when I had already booked a stay there during my very first search, and I had gotten a confirmation email for that hotel booking about an hour or two earlier!

At least Southwest doesn't seem to do that.
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Old Mar 4, 2023, 4:35 pm
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Originally Posted by m907
Southwest's new tactic is "That $X flight from A to B (ABC) is ready and waiting."

Buying a flight is not like leaving a website without buying a bag of pretzels. If someone leaves a site without buying a flight, there's a good reason for it.

swaMark PLEASE make a way to opt out of these emails.
I'm assuming opting out of these in your email subscriptions in your profile would do it. Although perhaps not as granular as might be desired.

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