If you're getting A40s that's really pretty darn good. Many people reported getting into the B's sometimes mid-way through with EBCI. It was the hope that the increased/variant pricing of $15-$25 per way depending on demand and route would help lower the amount of people purchasing them.
Personslly we’d be very happy with A40’s. I have purchased EBCI on original date flights are available, originating flight and still been in the B’s. For this reason I choose (for our flight to MCO when I know I can make myself available at exactly 24 hours before the flight) not to purchase EBCI as the boarding numbers are often close to those without EBCI.
You must not have been traveling with many A-listers before.
I apologize in advance for this question, but is it worth it to purchase points? I received this email, but I get my SW points from my credit card rewards. How much do they charge for points?
Personally, unless I only need a few points to purchase a flight using points, I do not find is cost effective to purchase points. Even in the scenario I mentioned it costs me more, but still less than purchasing an entire flight.
Even with this 40% promo, It’s a pretty terrible deal. I personally value SW pts at 1.48cpp. So with this deal you can 10,000 SW RR pts + 4,000 bonus RR pts for $275. So you get $207 worth of points for $275...if you’re struggling to see the sense there you would not be alone LOL.
If you purchase tix using points and do not have enough RR points in your account for an upcoming booking, it is better than buying points at the full price. This promo is available just in time for the next schedule extension, which is next week, so, it's timing is good for those who want to take advantage of the extended schedule, but are short on points. If I have a choice between cash bookings and points bookings, I will go with the points, when possible, due to the many advantages.
That makes sense. I do like the flexibility of booking with points vs cash. I use my credit card points and transfer them to SW, so purchasing points wouldn’t be beneficial to me. If I didn’t have credit card points though I could see the promo being worthwhile.
With the schedule extension presumably coming next week, I wonder if Hawaii will be available for booking. There certainly is lots of pent up demand among Southwest customers.
I'm so excited! It's the one place (well other than Vegas for my husband) that my husband and I are dying to get back to.
I'm interested in seeing the flight options. There's not going to be non-stop for me so I won't worry about that but I want to know will it be only a handful of flights each day from each airport servicing Hawaii or will they have a wider variety.
They've actually said throughout the process that they would not necessarily tie the Southwest Hawaii release to one of their formal releases. Also - that release is on March 14th so it's actually 2 weeks away
I'm thinking we may see something before then, Southwest wants to release these flights and start flying the routes ASAP I believe.
The original release date was March 13th as per my comment on Feb 3rd. They then slid it to March 14th. I don’t ever recall them moving it up to the 7th but I guess I could have missed that...
