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[RedHead0186]

Let’s just say, ugh. 3 and 1/2 hour delay on way down, 5 days later, a 4 hour delay on the way back. Was to arrive at 7:30 pm home, which would have been nice, but no, arrived at 11:45pm, and by the time luggage came out, after midnight. We live an hour and about 10 or so minutes less when that after midnight ride, and my alarm for work went off at 4:30 am. Little to say, I did not get much sleep today.

I am really hoping SW gives some credit for those delays. So far nothing.

What was the reason for the delay(s)?

 

[Lynne G]

Red, I think even with bad weather not at either airport, crew must have been delayed for weather, as not allowing crew to be available. The plane sat at the gate for over 10 hours waiting for all its crew.

We waited to board way past the time said on SW’s website, due to 1 crew not there until over an hour past the time we said would be boarding.

The boarding area was jammed with people, as we were not the only flight delayed, and thankfully, not cancelled as we overheard a person complain about his flight being cancelled.

 

[Crescent_Lake]

Let’s just say, ugh. 3 and 1/2 hour delay on way down, 5 days later, a 4 hour delay on the way back. Was to arrive at 7:30 pm home, which would have been nice, but no, arrived at 11:45pm, and by the time luggage came out, after midnight. We live an hour and about 10 or so minutes less when that after midnight ride, and my alarm for work went off at 4:30 am. Little to say, I did not get much sleep today.

I am really hoping SW gives some credit for those delays. So far nothing.

That sounds miserable, and not too dissimilar from our last trip. I'd be really surprised if you are given a credit or other compensation though.

I hope that the rest of your vacation was wonderful!

 

[MinnieMSue]

Let’s just say, ugh. 3 and 1/2 hour delay on way down, 5 days later, a 4 hour delay on the way back. Was to arrive at 7:30 pm home, which would have been nice, but no, arrived at 11:45pm, and by the time luggage came out, after midnight. We live an hour and about 10 or so minutes less when that after midnight ride, and my alarm for work went off at 4:30 am. Little to say, I did not get much sleep today.

I am really hoping SW gives some credit for those delays. So far nothing.

At MCO now with a delayed flight home. Was supposed to leave at 7:55 and since we had a ride scheduled to airport and were in fact in the car when I got the first delay notification we have been here for hours. Currently supposed to leave at 11:43pm and arrive home airport at 2am and won’t get to my house until 3:30 (hopefully). Still concerned about flight crew hours and afraid it will be cancelled. It is all due to weather in Texas and FAA delays (according to what they said here). None of that gives any compensation. I just want to fly out tonight.
As to the December flight changes I got an email about my flight to Orlando changing. It changed by 5 minutes but still same flight number and direct so not an issue. I noticed my flight home is a bit later but again not much of a change although it did change flight numbers. Not notified about that one.

 

[Stacybaeasm]

I didn't get any notification about my flight to Minnesota for Christmas changing but this morning, I got an email about flight back to NC changing. I wish I understood why it is always so random with Southwest. Sometimes you get a notification, sometimes you don't.

 

[RedHead0186]

That sounds miserable, and not too dissimilar from our last trip. I'd be really surprised if you are given a credit or other compensation though.

I hope that the rest of your vacation was wonderful!

That's what I was going to say. If it was weather related, then there's probably no credit/compensation coming. (Even though I agree it probably was miserable).

 

[kristenrice]

Question...

Can you "modify" a flight to depart the next day?

Hubby and I are looking to take a quick, 3-night, no parks trip for my birthday. One of the key things on our itinerary is dinner at Topolino's and our arrival day/first night is the only night we can fit it in. I would like to book a flight that lands before 2pm and right now, the ONLY flight available that lands before 3pm is the first flight of the day. Currently, that flight is considerably more than I am willing to spend. Since it is the earliest arrival that we can get on Monday, I am considering booking the last flight of the night on Sunday. It is considerably cheaper (right now) but I am not thrilled about being up for 24 hours. (I get up for work at 0230 and the flight lands at 0130). We would be staying at the airport Hyatt on that arrival night and our trip is just hubby and I so there is no kiddos to worry about...unless hubby has a "toddler moment". If I book the Sunday night flight and the Monday morning flight's price drops into a price-range I can handle, can I modify the flight? Or would I have to hope that they change the schedule?

 

[scrappinginontario]

Question...

Can you "modify" a flight to depart the next day?

Hubby and I are looking to take a quick, 3-night, no parks trip for my birthday. One of the key things on our itinerary is dinner at Topolino's and our arrival day/first night is the only night we can fit it in. I would like to book a flight that lands before 2pm and right now, the ONLY flight available that lands before 3pm is the first flight of the day. Currently, that flight is considerably more than I am willing to spend. Since it is the earliest arrival that we can get on Monday, I am considering booking the last flight of the night on Sunday. It is considerably cheaper (right now) but I am not thrilled about being up for 24 hours. (I get up for work at 0230 and the flight lands at 0130). We would be staying at the airport Hyatt on that arrival night and our trip is just hubby and I so there is no kiddos to worry about...unless hubby has a "toddler moment". If I book the Sunday night flight and the Monday morning flight's price drops into a price-range I can handle, can I modify the flight? Or would I have to hope that they change the schedule?

Yes, you can modify your flight to a different day. I’ve done this a number of times when flight prices fluctuated.

 

[RedHead0186]

Question...

Can you "modify" a flight to depart the next day?

Hubby and I are looking to take a quick, 3-night, no parks trip for my birthday. One of the key things on our itinerary is dinner at Topolino's and our arrival day/first night is the only night we can fit it in. I would like to book a flight that lands before 2pm and right now, the ONLY flight available that lands before 3pm is the first flight of the day. Currently, that flight is considerably more than I am willing to spend. Since it is the earliest arrival that we can get on Monday, I am considering booking the last flight of the night on Sunday. It is considerably cheaper (right now) but I am not thrilled about being up for 24 hours. (I get up for work at 0230 and the flight lands at 0130). We would be staying at the airport Hyatt on that arrival night and our trip is just hubby and I so there is no kiddos to worry about...unless hubby has a "toddler moment". If I book the Sunday night flight and the Monday morning flight's price drops into a price-range I can handle, can I modify the flight? Or would I have to hope that they change the schedule?

Yes! I think the only restriction is that you cannot change the departure airport. But you can absolutely modify flights to different days. I've modified flights to be several months later!

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

I didn't get any notification about my flight to Minnesota for Christmas changing but this morning, I got an email about flight back to NC changing. I wish I understood why it is always so random with Southwest. Sometimes you get a notification, sometimes you don't.

I was in my ten year old's email today and saw that she got the notification of the change for November but I didn't!

I didn't even realize that she would potentially get the email as a passenger but not the account that booked the tickets. (I actually forgot that they even had her email until I remembered that I created her RR account linked to her email.)

 

[MinnieMSue]

I was in my ten year old's email today and saw that she got the notification of the change for November but I didn't!

I didn't even realize that she would potentially get the email as a passenger but not the account that booked the tickets. (I actually forgot that they even had her email until I remembered that I created her RR account linked to her email.)

In the past my daughter got these emails too when I didn’t and I am the one who purchases the tickets. Idk why they can’t tell everyone affected but it is annoying.

 

[buzz1fan]

Can some help me understand the dummy flight bookings?
We have 4 separate ticketless funds to use and I wanted to buy southwest gift cards at Costco. They max at 500 each.


Since I can only use 3 payment methods- anything I can do to combine anything?

I almost need 2 gift cards and my funds plus little extra .

I book one way flights each way

 

[scrappinginontario]

Can some help me understand the dummy flight bookings?
We have 4 separate ticketless funds to use and I wanted to buy southwest gift cards at Costco. They max at 500 each.


Since I can only use 3 payment methods- anything I can do to combine anything?

I almost need 2 gift cards and my funds plus little extra .

I book one way flights each way

I combine funds by finding inexpensive flights and use 2 small funds then pay balance with cc. I then cancel that flight and it merges into 1 credit. Do that again with that credit plus another and balance in cc.

Continue until all travel credits are in one travel credit.

When you’re ready to book you’ll be able to use the travel credit plus 2 gift cards.

Hope this helps.

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

Can some help me understand the dummy flight bookings?
We have 4 separate ticketless funds to use and I wanted to buy southwest gift cards at Costco. They max at 500 each.


Since I can only use 3 payment methods- anything I can do to combine anything?

I almost need 2 gift cards and my funds plus little extra .

I book one way flights each way

I combine funds by finding inexpensive flights and use 2 small funds then pay balance with cc. I then cancel that flight and it merges into 1 credit. Do that again with that credit plus another and balance in cc.

Continue until all travel credits are in one travel credit.

When you’re ready to book you’ll be able to use the travel credit plus 2 gift cards.

Hope this helps.

Yes, this is how you can combine points. Hawaii interisland flights are a good starting place to find consistently cheap fares when you're combining $10 here, $20 there.

 

[buzz1fan]

I ended up getting what I needed with ticketless fund- southwest gift cards and. A few bucks on a credit card!

Thanks everyone

 

[han22735]

Just got hit with the dreaded flight change for our August flight. Went from a perfect 10:25am direct to a 6:30am direct. Not the end of the world but still annoying.

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

Just got hit with the dreaded flight change for our August flight. Went from a perfect 10:25am direct to a 6:30am direct. Not the end of the world but still annoying.

Dragging my butt out of bed that early to start a magical vacation would feel like the end of the world.

I'm sorry your perfect flight got messed up.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

So we just flew on the 18th PLAY Airlines from Copenhagen, Denmark connecting in Iceland and then to Baltimore. They use the Recaro brand of seats. Ours looked very close to the ones SWA has said they will be using. Supposedly SWA added more cushion (just read an article on that the other day) and I sure hope so because the PLAY ones were extremely uncomfortable more on your butt TBH. The rest was fine it was just they were hard cushion with almost no give.

Our first flight had better seats (and was about 3 1/2 hours) but the seat was still not comfortable, it was an "older" plane (their planes are all under 4 years). The longer 6 1/2 hour flight was on a "newer" plane but was pretty darn uncomfortable not going to lie.

So here's to hoping SWA's bottom cushion is much better than that.

 

[han22735]

Dragging my butt out of bed that early to start a magical vacation would feel like the end of the world.

I'm sorry your perfect flight got messed up.

At least our only plans that day were to sit by the pool. But getting up at 3:30am is gonna suck!

 

[SkyGuy]

Just got hit with the dreaded flight change for our August flight. Went from a perfect 10:25am direct to a 6:30am direct. Not the end of the world but still annoying.

We love early morning flights, especially during the summer months when Orlando weather can change on a dime in the late morning or afternoon. Disney is so good about storing luggage and they have good changing areas for pool time or to head to the parks or Springs. We generally spend the night before at a hotel near the airport - preferably a Drury Inn where we get snacks and three free adult beverages per person. Sometimes we even leave our car there and take their free shuttle directly to the departures door, so we can leave at the last minute and not worry about parking and such. I hope it works out well for you and you have a great time!