Booking Air fair

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Dependant on the time of year, yes.

Since being out west, I can say this.

-Get an airline points card if you see yourself traveling frequently, and filter monthly expenses through it. It’s worth it. Look at the Chase Southwest Visa. I’ve had 4 free flights already over the past year by just filtering my monthly through it. Play the game. It works
-As stated, book Tuesday-Thursday to avoid higher weekend premiums. It can often be $200+ and in my opinion is worth taking the extra day off work.
-Book as early as you can. If you know you are traveling, just suck it up and book it. In my experience, i’ve never seen a flight go down in price. Just up as you approach the date.
-Fuck Holiday travel. The same $350-$400 flight @GV1390 was talking about is now $1000+ plus during Christmas. Fuck. Book holiday WAY in advance if you can. It sucks, but it is what it is.

Thats about all I can think of. I haven’t flown a non Southwest flight for 2014 and I don’t plan on stopping. Some people don’t like the ‘free for all’ seating mentality with Southwest, but i’ve never once had a crappy seat, I usually get drunk for free off the flight attendants, and somehow I have yet to have a ‘bad’ experience flying with them. :2cents:

PS: If you do go Southwest, make sure to check in 24 hours before to lock in your spot in line. If you don’t… then you MIGHT have a bad time. lol

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Airtrain -> Jamaica Station (runs every 15 minutes). Then LIRR into Penn Station is a quick trip. Cab it from there.

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@maxwell meh.

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You coming out west? I gotta get back on my game. Come out here and fix my bike.

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I’ll be there in a month. Flying in for Taco Tuesday N2B with @XwalkerX

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Oh shit, what days? I hope it’s not the same week my folks come out. It’ll be their first time visiting. Mar 21-27

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Don’t fly Southwest unless you like old people and people who can’t line up in numerical order.

I would also suggest avoiding Monday mornings and Friday afternoon since its business mayhem.

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I flew southwest to Chicago…paid extra for the A/B seating. Worked out great.

I may be flying out to “Nawlins” Mid April.

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March 21st- 28th lol.

Yeah Southwest sucks, only perk I enjoy from flying with them is the Wifi.

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@GV1390, brutal. And the worst part is, my girls parents are out here this week, for their first time ever. So yeah, fun stuff…

Ok let’s see… reasons for Southwest sucking so far.

@GV1390, it just sucks
@LZ, old people, poor math skills.

I’m not seeing it yet guys.

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Get a Delta Reserve Amex card and fly Delta

You get access to Delta lounges
Priority boarding
Priority luggage
and a bunch of other shit

Even if you don’t fly enough to hit Gold or higher you get all those perks and miles when you use the card.

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I like Southwest. Not having assigned seats does suck, but the fares are reasonable and they fly to most of the places that I travel.

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I’ve been in the Delta Lounges, they are nice. Actually, it was in one of those lounges that I discovered the sanitary footpull to open the bathroom door. Every bathroom needs one of these!!

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It’s cool if you don’t fly often if you fly enough to hit status on any airline your just wasting flights.

I’m only gold on delta and get upgrades to first class on 85% flights

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I was spoiled with first class when I went to Italy a couple years ago. Other flights at economy/etc suck after that.

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absolutely, but OP isn’t a frequent flier.

My wife used to travel multiple times a month and was racking up boat loads of miles with Southwest. Hit A-List and you’re the first person on the plane.

Even though neither of us travel for work, we still use the Southwest card for EVERYTHING because we tend to travel semi-frequently to visit family and friends all over the east coast. I just booked a flight to buffalo for us in April (Easter weekend) and only used 1/3 of the total points available lol.

Southwest will never get you fancy seats or red-carpet entrances, but the fares are reasonable and the rewards card works out really well. I’m not trying to convert you. You’re doing what works for you. I’m just saying, don’t hate on Southwest too badly.

Your mileage may vary (see what I did there?)

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Delta is the cheapest so far at $176 a person round trip.

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I fly Delta and Southwest for work, and Southwest for personal (Easier to travel with the wife and kiddo on Southwest than Delta we’ve found). Have the Southwest Chase that we use for everything. We get probably 8-10 free round trip tickets on Southwest a year if not more; and I’m just banking points on Delta and Hilton for vacations for the wife and I.

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When do you fly, when UB lets out for break?

Southwest and JB is the only ones I fly. Southwest put me on a trip to Florida at Baltimore. They delayed us for 2 hours due to flights that were on our transfer being delayed. The luggage was slow to load and we sat on the plane for over an hour waiting for 14 people since there was no other flights they could get moved to. I sent them an email saying how it isn’t fair to delay 200 other people since they don’t want to run an extra plane out of their main hub. I got a call back from a rep in 24 hours, they actually apologized and said they are working to increase flights to better adjust for this in 2015 and is a known problem and gave me a $100 voucher to use.

They could have said fuck off and the 2015 initiative could be all lies but hey, they do more than most airlines and being able to bring a checked bag and golf clubs without paying the $50 per bag, I am happy.