Southwest new booking window

[Jestocost]

Ugh, higher than I had hoped they be.
Also... not many nonstops either. Really only one nonstop each way that would work for us. Have a credit to use so want to book, but want the price to be better than $119 pp each way. Not sure if price on those nonstops will go down much, as there aren't many of them though.

Well, it's always higher than I had hoped. But SWA is the only non-stop carrier between STL and MCO (unless you count the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't once-daily flight on AirTran) and the prices, while higher than those from between MCO and many other airports, were still 2/3 the price of the best connecting flight I could find yesterday. In that context, $350 RT isn't too bad.

 

[elgerber]

I was booking from MN to CA with no such thing as nonstops. One of my trips is 8 hours!

 

[KerriL]

They are releasing flights on November 13th for flights through August 10th and I need to book for August 11th

We need the 11th for a return as well..I just look at it as a few more months to rack up more RR points

 

[luvmy2babies]

We're set too. Church this morning and school work with dd so I couldn't deal with it until 7pm EST. But I think we did fine. We're going June 21-30. I got them for $102pp each way. Last two times we flew I got $99 going, but ended up paying $146 or $126 for the return flights respectively, so I feel pretty good about $102 each way.

Now I just have to wrap my brain around the 8:10am departure, which will mean 6am airport arrival. It was the only non-stop that would work. My dd is the opposite of a morning person. Thankfully we live just 30 minutes from our airport. But it's Disney, not school. She saw me booking and said, "I'll just have to go to bed at 3:00 in the afternoon. I told her 7:00 would work.

 

[palhockeymomof2]

I checked the fares out of islip just to see what they were we have our may tickets purchased and no other trip planned until October....the prices loomed ok for July and august

 

[KJSJpipe]

After a bit of computer issues I finally got our flights booked.
June 17-25, PHL-MCO roundtrip for 4 people, $1241.60. Not crazy good but in the budget I had for our flight and airport parking. As it stands I may have a bit left over in that 'fund' that can go to tickets since I changed my mind on how many park days we are going to do and need about $100 more for tickets now.

 

[ksloane]

So glad I booked Sunday my $111 airfare from Sunday is over $300 TODAY!

 

[buckeye12]

too expensive for us....as of now we are driving the 16hrs down, there was no way we could do the airfare for 6 of us..but will keep checking...just in case..

 

[jennb529]

By shifting our dates by one day on either end I found $112pp each way...so that's what I booked! Extra bonus, I called Universal to change our reservation and their room rates had dropped for our dates

It is so going to be worth the extra one to two hour drive for us to fly out of Austin rather than Dallas or Houston.

 

[GSDRescuer]

Wow airfare is higher than expected!!

 

[ksloane]

By shifting our dates by one day on either end I found $112pp each way...so that's what I booked! Extra bonus, I called Universal to change our reservation and their room rates had dropped for our dates

It is so going to be worth the extra one to two hour drive for us to fly out of Austin rather than Dallas or Houston.

Same thing happened to us...I didn't even try out of Austin, but I compared Houston and Dallas and ended up slightly changing our dates to get the lowest airfaire.

Wow! First two weeks of June are expensive! Will have to look into other airlines!!

Yea....they went up A LOT since Sunday...or at least mine did...