Airline question?

[AngiTN]

The only caveat is that if you book two different airlines and end up changing the dates of your trip, you'll have to pay two different change fees.

That said, I'd bet that most people booking Disney World vacations aren't going to change dates. As long as your dates are fairly firm, I highly recommend doing what AngiTN suggests by checking one-way prices across all airlines. It can be a great way to save money.

Yeah, in a later post I go so far to suggest to only book someone other than Southwest if your dates are firm. Change fees are just too high period, round trip booking or whatever, to book with legacy airlines. LOL

 

[jec6613]

Yeah, in a later post I go so far to suggest to only book someone other than Southwest if your dates are firm. Change fees are just too high period, round trip booking or whatever, to book with legacy airlines. LOL

Legacy airlines also offer flexible fares with all of the benefits of WN's tickets, including free checked bags and flexible dates, plus free booking into better seats and the potential for a free upgrade to business/first, and at least for the airports near me on the routes I fly these are actually cheaper than booking WN. So your mileage may vary.

 

[AngiTN]

Legacy airlines also offer flexible fares with all of the benefits of WN's tickets, including free checked bags and flexible dates, plus free booking into better seats and the potential for a free upgrade to business/first, and at least for the airports near me on the routes I fly these are actually cheaper than booking WN. So your mileage may vary.

I have no idea what WN

 

[Denise W]

I have no idea what WN

Southwest Airlines.
Denise

 

[AngiTN]

Southwest Airlines.
Denise

Why can't PP just say that? Trying to be cute I guess

Legacy airlines also offer flexible fares with all of the benefits of WN's tickets, including free checked bags and flexible dates, plus free booking into better seats and the potential for a free upgrade to business/first, and at least for the airports near me on the routes I fly these are actually cheaper than booking WN. So your mileage may vary.

Well, good for you. You are magic.
The flexible, changeable fares are 3 times as much so you get special rates.
Cause I can't find $49 or $59 fares on legacy airlines that are changeable.

 

[jec6613]

I have no idea what WN

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_codes

The major US carriers:
AA = American Airlines
UA = United Airlines
DL = Delta
B6 = JetBlue
WN = Southwest
AS = Alaskan
HA = Hawaiian
NK = Spirit
G4 = Allegiant

 

[AngiTN]

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_codes

The major US carriers:
AA = American Airlines
UA = United Airlines
DL = Delta
B6 = JetBlue
WN = Southwest
AS = Alaskan
HA = Hawaiian
NK = Spirit
G4 = Allegiant

No reason for you to be so difficult with the names here though. To use the ones so rarely used by anyone else on this area

 

[piccolopat]

We are goingnin the Fall andnwe live near Albany so we qould leave out of there or Syracuse or even newark airport

If you are driving to an airport anyway, check Newburgh and White Plains. JFK is also a good choice since it has many more flights available for JetBlue.

 

[Denise W]

No reason for you to be so difficult with the names here though. To use the ones so rarely used by anyone else on this area

Actually I see many people refer to Southwest as WN on these boards all the time. That is how I learned what it meant.
Denise

 

[jec6613]

Why can't PP just say that? Trying to be cute I guess

Well, good for you. You are magic.
The flexible, changeable fares are 3 times as much so you get special rates.
Cause I can't find $49 or $59 fares on legacy airlines that are changeable.

Not magic, I just that WN charges $450 for what a legacy charges $130 for. At that sort of price difference I could afford to book three different itineraries and cancel and lose everything on two of them and still come out ahead. I also live along the Amtrak NEC so I have no need to fly for a lot of my travel, as the NER or Acela is cheaper and faster (door to door anyway, hard to beat a station that's 15 minutes away), so when I fly, I fly at least 1,000 miles and out of a highly competitive market that WN just doesn't serve very well.

 

[AngiTN]

Actually I see many people refer to Southwest as WN on these boards all the time. That is how I learned what it meant.
Denise

Ok. Never have myself but I stand corrected. I don't know why they would feel the need to use that instead of their name

 

[jec6613]

If you are driving to an airport anyway, check Newburgh and White Plains. JFK is also a good choice since it has many more flights available for JetBlue.

Also LGA, as MCO is inside of the fence (it's illegal to fly more than 1500 miles out of LGA except on Saturdays, or to Denver). If you're willing to have a bit of hassle, Poughkeepsie MNRR/Amtrak station has cheaper parking and brings you into GCT where you can catch the NYC Airporter, or a taxi (which is $35 or so) to the airport. It's the northern limit of electrification so that's as far north as the commuter rail for NYC goes.

And if you're being really cheap, as I've done when I was between jobs, you can take MNRR to GCT, then the 4-5-6 train to Fulton St, then take the A to the JFK airtrain. It's about the most convoluted thing ever and I'd never do it with kids, but technically JFK does connect to NYC's mass transit.

Just don't do Uber/Lyft to the NYC airports, the T&LC regulates the taxi fares and they have always been cheaper to the airports than Uber/Lyft is, sometimes by a substantial margin.

 

[jec6613]

Ok. Never have myself but I stand corrected. I don't know why they would feel the need to use that instead of their name

It removes ambiguity (and is a bit faster to type). I've seen people use SW to refer to Spirit because of their callsign, "Spirit Wings." Same reason people use the three digit airport codes, they're exactly the same thing and used the same way on your ticket.

 

[Lewisc]

Ok. Never have myself but I stand corrected. I don't know why they would feel the need to use that instead of their name

WN is the IATA abbreviation assigned to Southwest Airlines. Southwest flights start with WN. I think DME uses WN used on some documents. WN is used when listing your flight number on customs documents.

SW is the IATA code for Air Namibia. On one of the cruise boards at least one poster pretends to think a poster is referring to Air Namibia.when they refer to SW in a post.

On DIS posters tend to use SW when referring to Southwest Airlines. Posters on flyer boards tend to use the correct abbreviation, WN.

 

[pixiedustedme]

Cause I can't find $49 or $59 fares on legacy airlines that are changeable.

I can't find a $49 or $59 flight to Orlando via Southwest, either. Most of their flights cost about the same as the economy flights of the legacy airlines. Sometimes they even cost more.

 

[AngiTN]

I can't find a $49 or $59 flight to Orlando via Southwest, either. Most of their flights cost about the same as the economy flights of the legacy airlines. Sometimes they even cost more.

Out of Atlanta they have them quite often

 

[jec6613]

Out of Atlanta they have them quite often

WN has been loss leading into ATL for quite a while to try, directly going against DL and their fortress hub. Enjoy it while it lasts, some day one of them is going to give in and the prices will re-normalize.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

On DIS posters tend to use SW when referring to Southwest Airlines.

I feel like majority of folks use SWA here on the Boards.

I've rarely seen WN but upon reading some random thread months back I found out WN is for Southwest otherwise I wouldn't have known myself.

 

[bumbershoot]

Legacy airlines also offer flexible fares with all of the benefits of WN's tickets, including free checked bags and flexible dates, plus free booking into better seats and the potential for a free upgrade to business/first

What route and what airlines? While SW is rarely the best rate for me from Seattle, ive never seen such a rate on Delta, Alaska, etc.

Iceland air, sure. But not to Disney.

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_codes

The major US carriers:
AA = American Airlines
UA = United Airlines
DL = Delta
B6 = JetBlue
WN = Southwest
AS = Alaskan
HA = Hawaiian
NK = Spirit
G4 = Allegiant

Awesome for flight specific boards. Maybe not awesome for dis.

I've seen people use SW to refer to Spirit because of their callsign, "Spirit Wings."

That person is just being difficult. I’ve never even heard the term “spirit wings”.

Same reason people use the three digit airport codes, they're exactly the same thing and used the same way on your ticket.

Ruh roh. Isn’t MCO also OIA?

On one of the cruise boards at least one poster pretends to think a poster is referring to Air Namibia.when they refer to SW in a post.

Ye gads.

 

[AngiTN]

WN has been loss leading into ATL for quite a while to try, directly going against DL and their fortress hub. Enjoy it while it lasts, some day one of them is going to give in and the prices will re-normalize.

Been the price consistently (note, not constantly but can be found with regularity) for 3 years now.
Your dislike for Southwest has been quite clear. Fine. Glad you don't have to fly them. More seats for those who do like them.
No big deal.
Quite honestly I don't fly them unless I can't get a fare I like from home. I prefer to fly out of our little old 5 gate local airport if I can just to avoid the 2 hour drive
But in 2 weeks we are on one of those $49 flights that was just too good to pass up (and guess what, some have even been $39)