Is your late Aug/early Sept SW flight cheaper today?

[Luv2Scrap]

My flights dropped like a rock again today (I already got credit for them but they jumped up again right away). Better check yours!

 

[Tiggs14]

Nope...our flight down is sold out and our flight home is now sitting at $193...thankfully we only paid $89 for it!

 

[1tufgt]

I don't think I can get any cheaper than my $67 one way. Ours have been stuck at $86 for the lowest fare.

 

[kldmom2000]

Quite the opposite! LOL! I just checked after seeing your post.... I paid $79 and it's now $239! EEK!

 

[Tara]

Yep, our flight home from MCO went down AGAIN today - it's for 9/1 and it dropped to $119. I'm sitting on about $75 in credit now, which brings my net cost down to about $525 total for 3 tickets. (I used RR credit for 2 of our 3 flights home - that was all I could get.)

Most of the flights for our travel days went up today, but not the last flight home - it's the lowest it's been since April 1st.

 

[M2DD's]

My flights dropped like a rock again today (I already got credit for them but they jumped up again right away). Better check yours!

Just too make sure I know what I'm doing *if* we see a price drop(don't think we will since were traveling over christmas) how do I get credit for what we already paid?
I have changed our ressie once online is it the same way I just book or pick different flights through my confo #and then I'm issued a credit that can be used up till 1 yr?

Also, we had fly out of a father airport(1hr farther from us) because it was double the price PP on way so can we switch airports if they drop that fair?

 

[Alisha's mom Sarah]

My return flight is cheaper but my outbound flight is sold out. I was hoping to save money.. If both of my flights had the cheaper fares then it would have save us another $130 ( there are 6 of us travelling)..

 

[helenk]

My flight went down...a whopping $1. When I booked it was $100 today it was down to $99.
There was a ding the other day that was $83 but it was a flight going to MCO that was much later in the day than my original flight.
Since it's just me going I'd rather pay more and get to WDW earlier.

 

[csharpwv]

We ended up booking Southwest for our trip down and Airtran for out flight back due to Southwest's offering of only early flights on the day we wanted to leave. It's only a 5 night trip so we wanted to spend out last day there in the parks, so we didn't want to fly out at 7:45am HAHA

 

[mcd2745]

Both my flights (8/27 & 9/5) are moe expensive than when I booked 3 months ago.

 

[Huff]

Our days dropped a bit but not for the times we want. I don't want to arrive very late as we already lose 3 hours heading east from the west.

 

[ChrisAlli]

I want to book our flights with SW but am hoping for the $$$ to go down a bit. How exactly do you get a credit?

Do you book each leg seperate, so if one goes down you can take advantage?
Are the credits pooled, or are they for each individual person?
Is it a year to use from purchase, change or flight?

Sorry so many questions, just want to get this right?

 

[gigi1313]

both of our flights (8/23-9/1) are now double what they were when we booked (right when the flight dates opened)... considering there are five of us, booking when we did saved us some real money... glad i didn't wait!

 

[Huff]

I want to book our flights with SW but am hoping for the $$$ to go down a bit. How exactly do you get a credit?

Do you book each leg seperate, so if one goes down you can take advantage?
Are the credits pooled, or are they for each individual person?
Is it a year to use from purchase, change or flight?

Sorry so many questions, just want to get this right?

If you book a round trip and prices of one leg go down later you will be able to get a credit. You simply click change reservation and change only the one leg and a credit will be applied.

Currently the credit is pooled. The credit can be used to book a new flight for anyone and is good for one year from date of booking (not date of flight). However, that practice will end Jan. 28th 2011 after which the credit can only be used by the person named on the original reservation.

Airlines do not want people to rebook tickets under a different name because it allows travel agencies to buy up cheap tickets and resell them at a higher price. Southwest has been one of the few that allowed it although most online travel agencies I do not believe book for SW.

 

[ChrisAlli]

Thanks for the answers!!! Appreciate it. I guess I'll book now then.

 

[karrit2000]

I want to book our flights with SW but am hoping for the $$$ to go down a bit. How exactly do you get a credit?

Do you book each leg seperate, so if one goes down you can take advantage?
Are the credits pooled, or are they for each individual person?
Is it a year to use from purchase, change or flight?

Sorry so many questions, just want to get this right?

I always book each direction separate because if a DING offer comes up it might only be good for one way depending on your travel dates. I just find it easier to keep each one separate. The credit is good for 1 year from your original date of purchase.