My first reaction, as well. Wow. In the past, the cheapest fares would often be early in the release window. Apparently, that's not SW's approach any longer - at least not for many of their routes. Some of these fares this morning are crazy and actually having me looking for options. The no-frills, low cost approach might not lead me to SW any longer....
The last few releases I feel like they've had high initial prices and then I can re-book at a lower cost in the following weeks. Different than when release day used to be the cheapest option.
Yea, I don't get it. Some of the routes we looked at don't even offer WGA fares. I highly doubt all the WGA fares sold out that fast on all the flight options we're looking at (including an option for 2 different dates). Holding out on the cheaper fares, or just not offering them on many routes? We've done SW less and less since the pandemic. Something like this could have us remove them from our list of options completely....
At a point in my life I keep getting just a smidge bigger every year!!
same!
This happened to us last year. The WGA fares popped up eventually - maybe several days later, if I remember correctly?
We fly out of PVD too. I will be booking December flights at next release but took a look this morning to see what the schedule looked like. This is the highest I've ever seen PVD-MCO flights on release day (and I mostly fly vacation weeks too)
I read an article that said they were not adding more rows.
. I had seen the pictures & showed my husband. He was impressed with the company SW has making them. He has heard of them for years & knew they make comfortable & safe seats for racing cars. So I guess there’s hope they won’t be horrible.
I read an article from The Points Guy that said they were not adding more seats.
