Southwest Flight info

[captaind & Linston]

Here's a real tip if you have good credit and pay off your CC every month.

The SW Visa Premier card costs 69 for the first year. If you spend 3K in the first 90 days you get 50,000 points.

For me from Orlando to MBJ round trip is 10,000 points on the off days. Even got the last trip for 7,500 points.

You still have to pay the tax which is 106 per ticket. For me at the end of the the day I got 4 round trips at 134.00 per trip

When you visit the the SW site you can get the price in points if you choose.

Check it out. It might work for you.

About paying it off every month:

Sooner or later (sooner in my case) you use up your points Time to dump that card and move on to the next bonus card.

Barklay Arrival Preferred:

Chase Sapphire Preferred

Capital One Elite (or something like that)

This can be done indefinitely IF YOU PAY OFF EVERY MONTH

The CC companies call us "freeloaders"

[sher]

Southwest is the only non stop option for us in the Baltimore area. I used to love flying Air Tran until Southwest took over because I prefer choosing my seat in advance. We would always upgrade with points to business class on the Jamaica flights. Made it a nice way to start the trip! Price-wise, Southwest is the cheapest option for us as well. As CaptainD said, the credit card makes it even cheaper with reward points!

[arahzel]

We booked through Southwest, but I had to do it in a convoluted way.

I wanted
Birmingham > Orlando > Montego Bay
Montego Bay > Orlando > Birmingham

I got
Birmgham > Orlando > Montego Bay
Montego Bay > Maryland > Birmingham (add 7 hours travel time to our return trip)

But when I was just looking at trips between Orlando and Montego Bay there was definitely a return flight at the time we wanted.

So I ordered:
Birmingham > Orlando
Orlando > Birmingham

then separately ordered

Orlando > Montego Bay
Montego Bay > Orlando

And the flights were actually cheaper on the way back.

I later got an email from Southwest telling me that I could not check my luggage, which didn't matter anyway because we were planning to do carryon only.

I think for four of us it was all Wanna Get Away prices and rang in right under $1800. So about $450 each.

Now looking from Birmingham to Maryland to Montego Bay today, it's $376 each round trip, but I do not want that extra travel time. Plus we are meeting up with my family in Orlando and riding the same plane to Montego Bay.

[Packrat]

The CC companies call us "freeloaders"

Captaind, you let the cat out of the bag, I do the same thing

[captaind & Linston]

Packrat....

The cat's been out of the bag for quite a while....all you have to do is catch her

Cap