Booking flights before DVC?

[amym2]

Counting down until we can reserve our next DVC stay for mid-October. I've been looking at SWA flights and was feeling okay about waiting to book flights until we have our DVC stay reserved, but seeing the prices jump up is making me nervous. We're hoping to reserve a 2bdrm and studio at AKV, so I don't think we'll have a problem getting what we want. What would you do... book the flights and hope the DVC works out or wait two weeks to book DVC and hope the SWA fares are manageable? Aack, I hate waiting!!

 

[DVC-Don]

I had always waited until after I had my DVC unit booked before booking a flight.

 

[siskaren]

Southwest allows you to change flights without a fee though, right? Given that, I think I'd rather book now and change if necessary.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

I would book now with SWA you can always change your ticket without a change fee.

 

[BigTigger]

Half of my reply belongs on the DVC board, but I'll post both halves here.

Book SWA for the dates you want now. You can get a credit if the price goes down and change the dates without a fee (but subject to fare differences) if you need to change.

Book the time you want to stay at your home resort now (if at DisneyWorld) and change it to AKV when your six month window opens. The options here may have changed since I did it last, but this was always the best way to have all bases covered until non-home resorts opened up (works for wait list items too).

Not on the advice list per se, but when you do the above you can set your countdown clock too

 

[amym2]

Thanks for the responses. We've flown AirTran but not SWA for a long time. Does the no fee to change a flight apply to AirTran flights also? I have 1 SWA and 2 AT non-stop flights per day to choose from.

I feel certain we could at least get our home resort (SSR) at 7mo. But if there are dates AKV isn't available, I'd work around those. We have some flexibility in schedules with a 2wk fall break.

I did book flights to Hawaii before booking Aulani for last October without issues, so I don't know why I'm fretting about this trip!