Southwest Fall Fare Sale

[HouCuseChickie]

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that SWA is having a 72 hour sale. I rebooked my air for September and just saved $512.40. It was a WannaGetAway fare so it's a credit for future travel...still, should be very helpful down the road. In any event, hope this can help some people.

 

[coachwnh]

We just changed our reservations and can stay longer now. Even though we're flying on Airtran, booking through Southwest still got us no change fee and no luggage fee on nonstop flights.

Only thing that stinks is you don't get to pick your seats on the air tran flight booking through SW site. We are doing this in October and the SW agent said at check in at the airport AirTran will assign our seats. We used our companion pass and points to fly free which us a huge perk, but with a 10 and 8 year old, not having seats paid in advance stinks.

 

[lunchbox1175]

We have some travel within the 1-year window, so it will come in handy for us. Plus, my parents were able to book under this special so they could come out for DD4's 5th bday. Bonus!

The original fare sale I booked under saved us a little over $400...now this sale has saved us an additional $500+... sooooo, around $930 savings betwen the 2 sales. Also makes you really think about air prices and just how grossly overinflated the non-sale prices really are.



I know, it's still flying out of Hobby...but $202 pp is something i just can't turn down.

Hey saving money is saving money, I added a three hour layover in LA for an upcoming flight to Oregon and it saves me $400!

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Only thing that stinks is you don't get to pick your seats on the air tran flight booking through SW site. We are doing this in October and the SW agent said at check in at the airport AirTran will assign our seats. We used our companion pass and points to fly free which us a huge perk, but with a 10 and 8 year old, not having seats paid in advance stinks.

We fly in August and this is the first on a SWA/AT shared itinerary. I see we can check in on the SW site but there's only two of us. We're flying the same flights we always do (last nonstop of night) and they're never full. Everyone wants to fly to/from the big airports I guess. It's a 20 min. drive from home to the airport and a straight 2-hour flight from takeoff from touchdown.

 

[PurplePizza1]

I just ran us through, and it would be $1500 for three people to fly round trip from Houston. Yikes. For the cost of gas, we'd be better off driving. We will get to stop and rest along the way and get a hotel in a beach-front town for a night and break up the drive. It's still too high for me, even with their 'sale' prices. It's $1500 without adding in all the extra fees. Yikes.

 

[copcarguyp71]

We snagged roundtrip for three from Phila to MCO for $539 Tuesday on a US Airways sale...might still be going on, not sure. All other fares I found previously were $800-1000

 

[wendysue]

It wasn't just Southwest yesterday, it was other airlines also. I got 2 RT tics from Chicago for 395.00 on United. The day before it was 335.00 for one.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

I just ran us through, and it would be $1500 for three people to fly round trip from Houston. Yikes. For the cost of gas, we'd be better off driving. We will get to stop and rest along the way and get a hotel in a beach-front town for a night and break up the drive. It's still too high for me, even with their 'sale' prices. It's $1500 without adding in all the extra fees. Yikes.

Were you looking under the fare sale area? Just wondering b/c my air from Houston started out around $1700 (several months ago- when I refused to book at that insane rate)...dropped by about $400 after the first fare sale (when I first booked)...then dropped another $500 after this current fare sale (when I rebooked). The fares I booked yesterday from Hobby to MCO r/t wound up at $202pp.

 

[MacVenture]

For my family of five, I was able to land a fare of $763 from DC to O-town in Nov. I had originally purchased the flight back in April (Southwest)so the Fall sale ended up saving me $100.