PrincessForLife
Pilot wife and crafter with a Disney heart
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- Jun 7, 2012
For anyone going to the Orlando area for Easter break and flying in, I suggest booking flights now! We actually booked our flights about a month ago on Southwest, but I looked at the flights still available today to see if they had any deals, and most were either sold out for the "Wanna get away" flights!! The cheapest to get home on Easter is $425 from Orlando to Midway-Chicago!! Yikes.... Let me share my experience with booking flights for this trip...
We like flying Southwest. They have great fares, no baggage fees for the first 2 bags, great customer service, and we like Midway-Chicago MUCH better than O'Hare. We could have booked flights out of O'Hare when we decided to take the vacation back in August but we convinced my In-Laws to try Southwest because of cheaper flights. (Even though the In-Laws are much closer to O'Hare.) Well, at least we got them a little cheaper... If we booked United or American out of O'Hare back in August, we could have gotten the same price as our Southwest flights (that includes the baggage fees). Instead I sat at the computer on Oct 14th (When Southwest released the flights for our dates) and fought a bloody battle for our flights. I found our times and filled out all the personal info and CC info, but by the time I hit "Process," the prices went up! I quickly redid the info and hit "Process." It went through this time, but we ended up having to pay $200 more than the first price and went over our $2,000 budget for 5 people by about $70. Not a big deal but a little bit of a bummer. I went back 5 minutes later and the price jumped another $57 per ticket!!
Needless to say, if you want deals on airfare for Easter break, there are none. lol I'm just happy that it's out of the way! So what did I book? Our flight going to Orlando is on Southwest at 6:10am and gets in at around 9:20am. Early, but gives us the WHOLE DAY at Typhoon Lagoon! Our flight back to Chicago on Easter Sunday is on a Southwest flight operated by Air-Tran and is at 12:25pm arriving at 2:45pm. This gives us a nice breakfast before the flight and then the rest of the evening at home on Easter before the work week!
We like flying Southwest. They have great fares, no baggage fees for the first 2 bags, great customer service, and we like Midway-Chicago MUCH better than O'Hare. We could have booked flights out of O'Hare when we decided to take the vacation back in August but we convinced my In-Laws to try Southwest because of cheaper flights. (Even though the In-Laws are much closer to O'Hare.) Well, at least we got them a little cheaper... If we booked United or American out of O'Hare back in August, we could have gotten the same price as our Southwest flights (that includes the baggage fees). Instead I sat at the computer on Oct 14th (When Southwest released the flights for our dates) and fought a bloody battle for our flights. I found our times and filled out all the personal info and CC info, but by the time I hit "Process," the prices went up! I quickly redid the info and hit "Process." It went through this time, but we ended up having to pay $200 more than the first price and went over our $2,000 budget for 5 people by about $70. Not a big deal but a little bit of a bummer. I went back 5 minutes later and the price jumped another $57 per ticket!!
Needless to say, if you want deals on airfare for Easter break, there are none. lol I'm just happy that it's out of the way! So what did I book? Our flight going to Orlando is on Southwest at 6:10am and gets in at around 9:20am. Early, but gives us the WHOLE DAY at Typhoon Lagoon! Our flight back to Chicago on Easter Sunday is on a Southwest flight operated by Air-Tran and is at 12:25pm arriving at 2:45pm. This gives us a nice breakfast before the flight and then the rest of the evening at home on Easter before the work week!