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Southwest Airlines announced today that it will be offering non stop service to ten new cities from DAL – Dallas Love Field. The service, which starts in April 2015, was made possible by the sublease of two gates from United Airlines. This raises the number of non-stop destinations from DAL to 43 cities, and pushes…
WSB TV-2 in Atlanta is reporting that two separate flights – Southwest Airlines flight 2492, coming in from Milwaukee (MKE) and Delta Airlines flight 1156 from Portland, Oregon (PDX) – were escorted into Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) this afternoon by NORAD jets because of ‘credible bomb threats’ against each flight. Credible Bomb Threat Gets Southwest…
Wanna get away? Maybe take your sweetie to Las Vegas sometime in February from Dallas Love Field to Las Vegas? Southwest Airlines has tons of seats on non-stop flights from DAL to LAS available on every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday in the month of February. DAL-LAS On Southwest For $59 Each Way On…
On January 2 and 3, 2014, Southwest Airlines had 16 flights on the ground at Chicago’s Midway (MDW) airport that kept hundreds of passengers locked inside planes on the tarmac for more than 3 hours after landing at MDW. This earned Southwest airlines a record $1.6 million dollar civil fine by the Department of Transportation…
Last week, we suggested five ways to get a free drink on Southwest Airlines. One of the five suggestions was checking your mailbox for free drink coupons from Chase for Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Card Members. Well, my set of four free drink coupons came in the mail earlier this week – just in time…
Southwest Airlines published its first quarter 2015 beverage menu and listed the following three days as free drink holidays: January 1 (New Year’s Day), February 14 (Valentine’s Day) and March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day). How To Get A Free Drink On Southwest Airlines  Even if you’re not flying on these three holidays, there are a…
Last month, on the eve of the wrongful death trial for a Southwest Airlines Ramp Agent who was thrown off his tug and killed in an accident with a mobile lounge on the taxi-way at Dulles Airport in January 2012, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority paid a $2 million settlement wrongful death settlement to the…
Yesterday, some Southwest flyers got more than they bargained for when they were taxiing in LaGuardia on the way to Denver. Per CNN, Two planes bumped into each other on the tarmac at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport around 11 a.m. Tuesday. After a hectic morning, passenger Stormie Alsruhe, 30, was just settling into her seat…
Wintery weather is forecasted in the MidWest over the next 24 hours, and rain, fog and low cloud ceilings are delaying flights in the MidAtlantic, leaving last minute holiday travelers with massive delays and cancellations. According to flightstats.com, 563 flights have been cancelled today with another 7,529 delayed today in the United States.A number of…
Two days ago Southwest Airlines sent out targeted codes via e-mail for saving 20% of your points when you redeem with Rapid Rewards points on a round-trip flight between January 6 and February 12, 2015. It’s good for travel on Southwest domestic and flights to Puerto Rico, and black out dates of January 16 through…
American Airlines released some crazy good fares yesterday for flights between Chicago O’Hare and Orlando, and Chicago O’Hare and Tampa, with travel as low as $86.20 ROUND TRIP on selected dates in January and February, 2015.Southwest Airlines decided to match some of those crazy good fares from Chicago Midway to Orlando, and Chicago Midway to…
Southwest Airlines started selling its summer 2015 schedule today for travel between June 6 and August 7, 2015. Southwest will be operating at least 3,800 flights a day – about 150 more weekday departures than the combined Southwest and AirTran network from the summer 2014. They will be adding service in 83 markets, and decreasing…
Southwest Airlines announced today that it applied to the U.S. Department of Transportation to serve Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport in Belize City, Belize from Houston Hobby Airport starting in October 2015. This adds Southwest’s second destination in Central America, a seventh country, and the 96th city on the route map. In addition, Southwest…
Southwest Airlines flight 623 took off out of San Francisco International airport this morning at 6:24 a.m. with 109 passengers on board. The flight was scheduled to land in Phoenix, but instead it landed at Los Angeles International Airport at 7:38 a.m. with 110 passengers on board after a woman on board gave birth shortly…
Open seating – it’s a signature of Southwest Airlines, and you either love or you hate it. And open seating has been a policy on Southwest Airlines for 43 years. But what does it mean? And more importantly – are you allowed to save seats once on-board? The answer is – vague(ish). According to southwest.com:…
Two California men filed a class action lawsuit against Southwest Airlines this week saying that they paid the $12.50 for Early Bird Check-In, yet others around them received better boarding positions. The 38-page filing against Southwest Airlines is for “breach of contract, fraudulent concealment, intentional misrepresentations, negligent misrepresentations, breach of covenants of good faith and…
Southwest Airlines just released a sneak peek of its newest commercial titled “Swagger” which will debut this weekend, most likely during NFL games on Sunday. Bottom Line: I’ll admit that I haven’t been the biggest fan of Southwest’s advertising lately, but there is something simple, hip and attractive about this one. What do you think?
Starting today customers on Southwest WiFi-enabled aircraft will be able to listen to free streaming music from their personal devices with a new partnership with Beats Music. Southwest Airlines says customers do not have to purchase WiFi to listen to music as they are offering a ‘sneak peek’ of Beats Music (listen to three songs)…
Looking for an easy way to earn a bunch of Soutwest Rapid Rewards? Consider booking a hotel room through RocketMiles. With this offer, new members will earn 3,000 bonus Rapid Rewards after their first booking in addition to earning up to 5,000 Rapid Rewards points per night through RocketMiles. How To Earn 3,000 Bonus…
Southwest Airlines is a little more than seven weeks away from making the AirTran brand history when flies it final flight – AirTran flight number 1 from Atlanta to Tampa on December 28, 2014 – and Southwest is making a number of changes as the AirTran brand winds down, including disabling AirTran.com According to the…