Senior Fares Discontinued???

[Soxxmann]

Went to book a flight and no longer have a column for Senior Fares. As a perennial A List Preferred Senior, I use Senior fares for a large percentage of my flights.  Is it discontinued or is my login no longer displaying it?

Thank you. 

[bec102896 · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately Southwest did away with senior fares on December 11th.

-Blake

[Soxxmann]

Thank you for the update.

[elijahbrantley · Accepted solution]

Read more here.

[Lindsey · Accepted solution]

@Soxxmann I honestly think the Wanna Get Away fares are a way better deal than the Senior Fares were. They were refundable, but in every other way WGA is at least as good a value!

@Lindsey
Former Employee, Fan for Life.

[Soxxmann]

Thank you @Lindsey - I'm one of those guys that has a lot of short notice changes for work.  Was always nice to be able to simply change flights a day or two out and know that there would be no fare difference.  Change is always inevitable.  Truly enjoy the great Southwest folks I see and meet on an almost weekly basis. Hopefully that doesn't change!!

[DancingDavidE · Accepted solution]

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@Soxxmann wrote:

Thank you @Lindsey - I'm one of those guys that has a lot of short notice changes for work.  Was always nice to be able to simply change flights a day or two out and know that there would be no fare difference.  Change is always inevitable.  Truly enjoy the great Southwest folks I see and meet on an almost weekly basis. Hopefully that doesn't change!!

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You can still do that, but it would be at the Anytime fare level.

If you are a frequent Southwest flyer, it may make more sense for Business Select, for not much more money you get 12x points instead of 10x and some other benefits.

[Soxxmann]

@DancingDavidE - Good point - just need to get the brain to adapt to the new way of doing business.  Thanks for your thoughts.

Soxx

[DancingDavidE]

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@Soxxmann wrote:

@DancingDavidE- Good point - just need to get the brain to adapt to the new way of doing business.  Thanks for your thoughts.

Soxx

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Hopefully that works - Senior Fare was a discount off of Anytime, so hopefully it doesn't bump you up too high from what you were doing in the past.

[guoos]

Thank you for the update.