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[Friendly Frog]

$250.00 is as cheap as I could get for Dallas to MCO, and I hate that we now have to give up a direct flight to get that price.

I was looking at $400.00 rt for my dates on American. Many of the flight times on Southwest were at the $400.00 mark too. I jumped on the 250.00 price.

Next time I might give Spirit a try. I know a lot of people on here do not like them, but l had heard negative posts about Airtran and I loved them. Even with baggage charges Spirit still comes in at a good price for a direct flight.

 

[joshsmom]

Traveling in May 2012 and looking for a code for SW. We are leaving from St. Louis and doing round trip. Anyone have anything?

 

[praisefor3]

Does anyone know if Avis offers this every year? We got an incredible deal two years ago and are hoping to do the same thing this year but I haven't seen it offered yet.

 

[NokOnHarts]

A couple questions regarding SW:

1) I will be buying 2 tickets with points and 2 tickets with cash. This is a party of 3 adults and a 4 year old. I have been told I will need to do these cash/points transactions separately. In regards to boarding the plane together and sitting together, does it matter how the tickets are purchased (that they were 2 different transactions) or do I just need to make sure to check in all 4 passengers at the 24hr mark to be in the same boarding group? We will have an infant with us so we should be able to board between A and B groups but can all 4 passengers board due to this or ONLY the ticket that has the "lap infant" associated with it?

2) If you buy a plane ticket with the SW CC (getting the 2 points per dollar for the transaction) can the card holder also earn the miles that are flown? I know the passengers that tickets are purchased with cash (not points) can gain the miles in their RR account - does this also apply to the card holder who got points for buying the ticket? I would assume so but just checking.

Thank you!

 

[mlacreta]

A couple questions regarding SW:

We will have an infant with us so we should be able to board between A and B groups but can all 4 passengers board due to this or ONLY the ticket that has the "lap infant" associated with it?


Thank you!

Our last trip (as a group of 8) with an infant we were all allowed to preboard together. 5 of the 8 were kids though so I don't know if it would make a difference your adult/child ratio. Our previous trip my parents came with us and they were not allowed to preboard with us. It wasn't a bid deal though as we just held seats for them. If your party is split up just make sure you have a couple things (Jacket/purse) you can throw on a seat to keep you together!

 

[MAYNARDS99]

I've searched quite a few pages here and have found no current codes. Anyone have one?

Orlando International Airport's code is not OIA it is MCO. OIA is an airport in BRAZIL!

Sorry for the rant, but it drives me nuts when people do not follow accepted conventions.

 

[disneydreamgirl]

I've searched quite a few pages here and have found no current codes. Anyone have one?

Orlando International Airport's code is not OIA it is MCO. OIA is an airport in BRAZIL!

Sorry for the rant, but it drives me nuts when people do not follow accepted conventions.

MCO used to be known as McCoy, hence the name...it makes sense, but only when you know that! I'm not sure how accepted the conventions are...Toronto's airport is YYZ! Most Canadian airports start with Y, maybe even all...doesn't make sense but I'm guessing that with so many airports in the world it would be real hard for the codes to make perfect sense across the board.

Funny what our pet peeves are...mine is when the stapler is empty...oooh and when people empty the kettle at work and leave it that way!

 

[StrwLady]

$250.00 is as cheap as I could get for Dallas to MCO, and I hate that we now have to give up a direct flight to get that price.

I was looking at $400.00 rt for my dates on American. Many of the flight times on Southwest were at the $400.00 mark too. I jumped on the 250.00 price.

Next time I might give Spirit a try. I know a lot of people on here do not like them, but l had heard negative posts about Airtran and I loved them. Even with baggage charges Spirit still comes in at a good price for a direct flight.

I will be flying Southwest for the first time to Orlando in June. I too just couldn't pass up the $250 fare. I have a 1 stop no change flight and while it will add 1 hour to our travel time, its worth the fare difference not to mention first check bag free.

I was looking at Spirit fares but when I googled for reviews I saw nothing but negative reviews.

 

[Sheaboys]

What are the chances that I will be able to get a good DING FARE for 8/25-9/2 out of Bradley in CT to MCO?

 

[StanH]

I will be flying Southwest for the first time to Orlando in June. I too just couldn't pass up the $250 fare. I have a 1 stop no change flight and while it will add 1 hour to our travel time, its worth the fare difference not to mention first check bag free.

I was looking at Spirit fares but when I googled for reviews I saw nothing but negative reviews.

Slight correction - first 2 bags are checked free (per passenger).

 

[StrwLady]

Slight correction - first 2 bags are checked free (per passenger).

Thanks Stan. I noticed that when I was checking fares the other day. Needless to say I am even happier

 

[Wish Upon A Star]

What are the chances that I will be able to get a good DING FARE for 8/25-9/2 out of Bradley in CT to MCO?

To be honest, I haven't seen a good DING out of BDL in over a year. In fact, ever since Delta stopped flying non-stop, seems like SW and JB have raised their fares. We fly a few times a year to Orlando and our flights for late April and late September this year are 250/pp/rt. Last year I was only paying around 200/pp/rt on average. I keep looking for DINGS, but . . .

 

[jana616]

I'm hoping someone with more SWA experience than me can help answer this question PLEASE! We are hoping to see the 50,000 points we got for signing up for the SWA credit card in our RR account tomorrow, but I think we will still be about 25 points (yes, seriously, 25 points) short of what we need to buy 3 of our 4 roundtrip tickets for our June trip. I don't really want to buy 2,000 points when we are short so few, and we also need to buy one ticket with cash anyway. So, my question is, how quickly do RR points from purchasing a ticket (the points anyone with a RR account would get, NOT the points from using the cc) show up? Is it instantaneous? I was hoping I could buy the cash ticket first, and then the new points from that would be in our account to buy the other 3 with points. That seems too easy, so I'm trying not to get my hopes up. What I really don't want is to pay cash for the first ticket and then find out that we still don't have enough points, but now I'm stuck anyway since I have the first ticket.

In a related question, has anyone ever had luck calling and asking them to just give you the extra points when you are so close? I did that once with our Chase Freedom card, so I wondered. I thought we had made plenty of purchases to get the points we needed, but we have 2 purchases from yesterday that still aren't showing, and the cycle ends tomorrow, and it's the weekend...

 

[MAYNARDS99]

Jana - your points show up AFTER your trip is complete. Sorry!

I would buy the cash ticket now and the other three after you earn more points. Have you thought about earning those points with one of Southwest's partners? (car rental, hotel, dining, retail) Those points post pretty quickly to your account.

Have you signed up for Rapid Reward emails, Ding and Click n Save? I think you get points for those programs too!

 

[jana616]

Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for! (Well, not what I wanted to hear, but what I was trying to find out!). What is DING, and how do I sign up for that? We did sign up for the e-mails. ETA: Never mind, I found and signed up for both DING and click n save. So far, I'm not seeing any additional points for those though. When we signed up for the e-mails it gave us 250 right away, so maybe we can't get more? It says get up to 500 additional points by subscribing to things, but that's all we've gotten so far, and I can't figure out what else to do to get more ASAP. The tickets have gone up already just in the last week, so I really don't want to have to wait much longer...looking for super fast ways to get 25 more points!

 

[MAYNARDS99]

From the Southwest website, "DING! is a free, stand-alone software application that delivers live updates from Southwest Airlines directly to your desktop."

For instance, today I received notice that for travel in May from Raleigh-Durham (RDU my home airport) I could go to Chicago for $139 one way.

 

[kolodiej]

in need of a sw code for st patty day

thanks so much

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for! (Well, not what I wanted to hear, but what I was trying to find out!). What is DING, and how do I sign up for that? We did sign up for the e-mails. ETA: Never mind, I found and signed up for both DING and click n save. So far, I'm not seeing any additional points for those though. When we signed up for the e-mails it gave us 250 right away, so maybe we can't get more? It says get up to 500 additional points by subscribing to things, but that's all we've gotten so far, and I can't figure out what else to do to get more ASAP. The tickets have gone up already just in the last week, so I really don't want to have to wait much longer...looking for super fast ways to get 25 more points!

How long did it take you to receive your card and points? I just applied and was approved. It said I will receive my card w/in 2 weeks. Hoping to use the points for flights for may.

 

[knittykat]

Does anyone know when SW's flight schedule will be open for booking in January? I want to make sure to get my flights early so I can take advantage of the "wanna get away" fares.

 

[jana616]

How long did it take you to receive your card and points? I just applied and was approved. It said I will receive my card w/in 2 weeks. Hoping to use the points for flights for may.

I think we got our cards within a week. One tip I have if you want your points sooner is when you call to activate the cards, ask to have your billing due date moved earlier. I tried to be honest and say that it was to get the points sooner and the guy wouldn't do it. So then I told him it was so all of my credit cards would be due the same day. It moved our cycle end date up a week sooner. (And if you are trying to figure out when it would be, I can tell you I asked for a due date of the 15th and our cycle end date was then the 18th of the month prior.) Good luck!