NEW INVENTORY FOR SALE: OCTOBER 1 THROUGH NOVEMBER 4, 2011, NOW OPEN!

[Bill]

Good morning, everyone!  (And for those of you on Spring Break this week…enjoy, you’ve earned it!)  Today we extended our open-for-sale date all the way out to the "just before we finally get back the hour we lost yesterday morning" when we “fall back” on November 6^th!

Overall, our October Base Schedule represents only a slight increase in flights—just 44 more weekday flights than the August/September schedule.  We bring a couple old favorite roundtrip markets back on a seasonal basis—Nashville-Providence, and Kansas City-Ft. Lauderdale—while we reshuffle the deck in our Manchester-West service by redirecting our Manchester-Phoenix service to operate Manchester-Denver nonstop.  In all, we’re changing the frequencies in 48 roundtrip markets.

Of course, this schedule is independently optimized, so make sure you look to see if your “favorite” flight will be shifting departure/arrival times come October!  Full details of all the frequency “tweaks” we’re implementing in our October schedule are in the attached .PDF file.  As always, if you have questions, please post a comment—I’ll be watching.  Happy Fall travel planning—happy Spring Break—happy Daylight Savings Time (ugh….)—and thanks for your business!

october_2011_weekday_flight_changes_2.pdf ‏205 KB

[Mike_Barnbaum]

Hi Bill: I saw the schedule and went ahead to book a flight to attend the Sacramento State - Portland State Football Game in Portland. Unfortunately it occurs during the weekend in early November where we change back from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time. I don't know how it seems to happen to me all the time when I book over a time change weekend, only the Friday is open initially, but not the Sunday. In order to get the initial low "Wanna Get Away" fare, I booked Friday Night to Portland from Sacramento, in early November already, but am unable to get a flight on Sunday the Sixth of November it seems at least until the Thursday before Memorial Day Weekend. That day, unless it is going to change, I'm looking forward to because it will than allow me to book Thanksgiving Travel into Newark on Southwest Airlines for the first time. I'm looking forward to Newark on Southwest. The so-called "legacy airlines" do not have good policies or a fun loving culture like Southwest does. Keep me posted too on the on-going progress of the Southwest Airlines complete acquisition of AirTran Airways. I'm looking forward to the day that there will be a Single Operating Certificate, or (SOC) for short. The schedules and the cities that will be served will be interesting. I'm looking forward to eventually sharing with the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and their Capitol-toCapitol Organizing Committee the possibilities that Southwest Airlines would potentially have to fly "Cap-to-Cap" Participants annually between Sacramento and the Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA). It came to my attention that DCA is currently an AirTran Airport, but not yet a Southwest Airport. It will be very interesting to see what schedules and city pairs will look like once all of the AirTran merger matters are completed and behind us, at least in a "legal" way. I can't wait for this day to come, and hopefully sooner than later. I look forward to seeing you on board soon. Sincerely, Mike Barnbaum, Rapid Rewards Member in Sacramento, California

[disgruntled_ISP]

Once again, Southwest cancels another flight out of ISP. The last schedule 3 flights were canceled. How about canceling all of them in one shot since it will probably end up that way in long run.

[Mary_Pastore]

When will the remainder of November dates in 2011 be released for sale (past Nov 4th)?