Southwest knows what they are doing when it comes to flying but especially when it comes to branding. I wish they flew into DFW but they only fly into the shithole known as love field.Originally Posted by lewfather
It's never #OUTRIGHT $200 straight, you have to factor in your miles, free flights, free luggage, discounted rates, air fare clubs etc. You don't magically travel east coast to west coast and back for an easy $200 or less. Although southwest is opening up a new flight pattern from DTW to Mcarran for $99 each way including 2 free bags checked. $198 + tax essentially, no priors, cant really argue with that but that's coming in september.
A somewhat amusing story about Southwest.
I had attended a bachelor party in Las Vegas last year and we were flying back to Dallas for the wedding. Long story but me and my buddy decided to skip the wedding and head back to OKC. Neither one of us had our cars as we had flown from OKC to Vegas and were planning on getting a ride back from the wedding. I had called a girl I was dating at the time from Vegas asking her to to lookup flights from Dallas to OKC as they are almost always really cheap and even cheaper when you book online. I couldn't book myself because we were already in the airport. She said she would get it done and that was the last I heard as we boarded the plane. We board our united flight and I call her right as we land at DFW and she said our flight leaves in an hour and I think ok great we can just hang out for a little while and take off. She said we are on Southwest flight 112..as soon as she spurts out southwest I think "oh fuck" I explain they only fly out of love field. I couldn't get mad at her because she did us a favor but we needed to book it, in saturday traffic in Dallas from DFW to Love Field. Our cabbie drives like a maniac and we made it just as they were boarding and still made everyone stand in the stupid section lines with about 20 total people on a huge plane. The story ends with the stewardess telling me to turn my phone off literally seconds after the captain says to and that she could "see the light on my phone, that always gives it away and if you don't comply we can kick you off the flight at your expense" I sigh and decided to not try and annoy her since its a 30 minute flight.
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