Southwest Has Opened Its Schedule Thru 01/04/16

[Marionnette]

For anyone who has plans for fall/early winter travel! Fares are pretty much consistent with what they were in the October for my early November trip. Airfare booked. One more item to check off my list!

 

[tookydo]

I have a friend that tried to book this morning, first thing, and a few minutes after booking opened, their flights were fully bookedl? Is this normal? I've never had that problem. Sometimes the price would change while I was booking as only so many seats are available at a certain price, but never GONE!

 

[Lynne G]

Well, when I first booked, they told me sold out of my outbound flight, but not my inbound, so I bought a different outbound flight than I wanted. Then I immediately changed, and got the outbound flight I wanted after all. Still wish they were lower fares, but at least I have the flights booked. Ahhhh. One more piece of the vacation done.

 

[hedberg1661]

Already booked my December Trip!

 

[redkel]

I am looking at our November flights right now. Flights today -- ADR's on Saturday. Bring it!

FYI -- TARGET has $200 Southwest GC's!

 

[elaine amj]

Ouch - point redemptions have gone up quite a bit for Christmas flights.

We were thinking of spending a week in Tucson for Christmas but I am rethinking that now - it's a lot of points! But Orlando is crazy this year too.

 

[alievans719]

That's so crazy that some flights are already sold out! I didn't have any trouble this morning but hearing others, yikes! I know the one flight I got is already sold out. That just seems crazy!

 

[Marionnette]

Ouch - point redemptions have gone up quite a bit for Christmas flights.

We were thinking of spending a week in Tucson for Christmas but I am rethinking that now - it's a lot of points! But Orlando is crazy this year too.

Southwest devalued their RR points back in April. It now costs more points per dollar to book airfare. It cost me 14899 RR points for a RT trip for one person PHL<->MCO. The same route in Sept./Oct. cost me 14586 RR per person prior to the increase.

 

[elaine amj]

I know - it sucks especially for peak periods. I just booked for September and the points weren't too bad. For that matter I rebooked my flight to MCO for my trip this weekend for fewer points than before the devaluation.

But for Christmas peak period - this is not looking pretty.

 

[tookydo]

The dates my friend was trying to book were 11/14, Pittsburgh to Orlando, first flight of the day. Anytime fares were gone in minutes.

 

[Trinity88]

I booked at 6:15am and by 8am the flight I booked was sold out! Glad I got on early, but really surprised by how quickly they sell out.

 

[Meldev]

Saturday early flights low points were already sold out early this morning.
I found my flights, texted DH - and an hour later went to book. My return flight went up 3,000 pts in that hour! An extra 18K pts for 6 of us!
Checked again after booking for fun - and it was up another 3K!!

 

[Meldev]

The dates my friend was trying to book were 11/14, Pittsburgh to Orlando, first flight of the day. Anytime fares were gone in minutes.

Yep that was a date I checked out - was gone by 8:30 - but we were flexible Friday or Saturday.

 

[redkel]

Yep that was a date I checked out - was gone by 8:30 - but we were flexible Friday or Saturday.

We will be there at that time too -- flying out of PIT on 11/12 (DD gets a free day off of school on 11/13 for district in service).

I also checked out Spirit out of Latrobe -- super great deals, but only one flight per day and all the luggage charges just didn't seem like the way to go for us.

 

[StitchesGr8Fan]

So disappointed. Very few direct flights which is insane since we are flying out of their hub.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

So disappointed. Very few direct flights which is insane since we are flying out of their hub.

Southwest doesn't have hubs.

Did you mean non-stop flights?

 

[StitchesGr8Fan]

Yes. Almost every flight stops in Atlanta, which is where AirTran was based. Coincidence?

 

[madhavok]

Booked at 8:00am, $115 each way from ISP.

 

[hslagle]

We are also leaving out of Pittsburgh but on 11/15. Wanna get away fares were gone for the early AM flight by the time I got on at 8:00AM. Anyone know if they typically open up more seats later on?

 

[DisneyRunner2009]

I watch Southwest's airfare daily. It has been my experience that Southwest will post sold out for flights, then some how the flight opens back up and with low fares. I just booked an one way in October, this past Saturday, for the lowest price I've seen, $126. Prior to this, the price was $140 or sold out. Flights that were sold out or $281/$283 yesterday, are starting at $140/$160 today. Just keep checking.