So I needed to book our flights over the Christmas holidays not to WDW (which we actually just returned from only yesterday)...but instead from Hartford to Salt Lake City (for a ski trip) to Las Vegas (to visit family), and back to Hartford. (I'm posting here because the DISBoards are my go-to place for posting about vacations, and because I spent the morning waiting for the flight schedule to load, too.)
My stepson picked the dates for the ski trip, and I knew they were going to be awful -- we are traveling the Friday before Christmas, and returning the following weekend.
I ended up paying more than I ever have for Southwest tickets. It was $557pp one way from BDL to SLC (for a WGA fare!), and $394pp for the return leg from LAS to BDL.
For comparison, I flew out there this past January, and paid just $343pp round trip.
At least the SLC-LAS leg was cheap ($99pp), though the time is very late in the evening.
I thought about waiting for prices to possibly drop, but our dates are fixed and prices are even higher on the legacy carriers, so I bit the bullet and booked. I guess that was the right thing to do, since the WGA fare for my flight is now indicating "Sold Out," but I'm still in sticker shock.