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[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

or if you can purchase with points.

That's true you can but it requires people to have the points in their accounts and how many people you're buying for can make that completely unfeasible. I think the devaluation of the earning on lower end fares plus the flights often costing more on average for people than they used to has made it hard for people with low balances to do that. You only earn 2pts with Basic so your build up to points painfully slow.

Like for me I only have just under 24,000 points in my account (because when I fly I've mostly been flying off using my husband's points and my earnings majority earned by using the Shopping portal for Petsmart) which is really hard to get much out of that. The flights to Vegas RT cost that back in August for 1 person. Although to be fair that was on Choice (previously WGA+)

 

[pens4821]

And today, the flight I was watching just dropped again to the lowest I have seen so far. So hard to know when to book now that flight credits expire 6-12 months from ticketing date.

This got me to thinking. Has anyone tried (or heard) extending the credit by booking a new flight and canceling it for a new flight credit date? I know you used to be able to do that when the flight credits expired in the past.

United has seemed to close the loophole. Some people say it still works from United, but last year I had one I kept trying to do that for and it would just keep the same confirmation number so it wouldn’t extend

 

[eticketplease]

If you have one of the Chase Transferable cards there is a 25% transfer bonus to SW.

 

[Dznypal]

I heard lately that SW is going to start boarding window seats first then the middle and last aisles
So now groups or couples won’t be able to board together
I can see how this would speed up boarding but if you have middle and aisle it’s going to be quite some time before your travel companion will be getting on

 

[Tink3815]

I heard lately that SW is going to start boarding window seats first then the middle and last aisles
So now groups or couples won’t be able to board together
I can see how this would speed up boarding but if you have middle and aisle it’s going to be quite some time before your travel companion will be getting on

how will this work with children

 

[Willow Ufgood]

I read that in addition to window->center->aisle boarding order, they will also seat from back to front. I can just imagine the complaints they're in for when the people who are seated in the back grab the first overhead spots near the front as they board. I understand that they're doing it for efficiency but how efficient will it be when those in the front are wandering to the back of the plane to stow their carry-ons? And then finally having to gate check their bags when nothing can be found?

It sounds good on paper but then you apply the human me-first factor, it's going to be a problem.

 

[The Mayor]

I read that in addition to window->center->aisle boarding order, they will also seat from back to front. I can just imagine the complaints they're in for when the people who are seated in the back grab the first overhead spots near the front as they board. I understand that they're doing it for efficiency but how efficient will it be when those in the front are wandering to the back of the plane to stow their carry-ons? And then finally having to gate check their bags when nothing can be found?

It sounds good on paper but then you apply the human me-first factor, it's going to be a problem.

I agree. It sounds like it's going to turn into a royal cluster F!!

 

[Tink3815]

I have heard Jet Blue boards back to front. Do they alllow you to drop your carryon in the fron of the plane?

 

[Simba's Mom]

I read that in addition to window->center->aisle boarding order, they will also seat from back to front. I can just imagine the complaints they're in for when the people who are seated in the back grab the first overhead spots near the front as they board. I understand that they're doing it for efficiency but how efficient will it be when those in the front are wandering to the back of the plane to stow their carry-ons? And then finally having to gate check their bags when nothing can be found?

It sounds good on paper but then you apply the human me-first factor, it's going to be a problem.

I hope that's not true-one reason I paid the maximum price was that I would not only get an aisle seat near the front, but I was told in the instructions that that would get me boarding near the beginning. If these plans are true, I wasn't told the truth.