My First Southwest Airlines Flight
February 19th, 2009 | Published in Deals, Travel | 1 Comment
I have lived in Texas my entire life and it’s hard to believe, but I have NEVER flown on Southwest Airlines. A few friends and I are taking a trip to the Pacific Northwest this coming July. I am meeting this group of friends in California and then driving up through the Northwest and up into Vancouver. As I have attempted to find flights for this trip, I have been amazed at the number of flights that are already completely filled and those that only have a few seats left. To top it all off, the prices on these flights are already trough the roof.
In my usual attempt to find flights, I hit up Orbitz. But Orbitz doesn’t search airlines like Southwest Airlines so I headed over to their site to see if they had flights going to both my arrival and departure cities. (Since we’re driving once on the west coast, I’m arriving and departing from different cities.) I was able to get round trip airfare for a little under $350. I couldn’t believe it. I’m excited about the upcoming trip to say the least. I’ll have to fill you in on my experience with Southwest after the trip in July.
It’s still hard to be believe though that this will be my first flight EVERY on Southwest Airlines.
February 19th, 2009 at 9:59 am (#)
Just make sure you check in almost 24 hours exactly before your flight unless you want a middle seat the entire way.
Other than that – their planes are new and clean and the flights are usually great.