I love everyone who keeps saying that this steaming pile of trash is still as good as or slightly better than some other programs.
Guess what? SWA used to be MUCH BETTER, not just a little. If they are only a little better, then I will only try a little harder to visit SWA instead of Orbitz, and my main motivator will be price alone, just like it has come to be for SWA. Loyalty to us is gone, so my loyalty to them goes liekwise Get real. This is a screwjob in its entirety and SWA STILL keeps LYING about it. If that's the company you think SWA should be, then you haven't flown them for more than 10 years and deserve what you get. The rest of us KNOW and will be LEAVING, just like Herb and Colleen and all of the others that made SWA what it *was* and which the MBA accountant idiots have RUINED FOREVER, in a just the last 7 months of horrible changes.
Sad, but true...
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Yet another screw job by SWA in less than a year!
When will the bean-counting MBA morons who have overrun this formerly cutting edge company get FIRED?!
It was NOT BROKEN, so why fix it?!
In the race to try to squeeze a few extra cents from your loyal customers, you'll lose dollars when we LEAVE, or at least treat you on par with any other crappy airline.
Why do all of the idiots running this company think that it is GOOD to be MORE LIKE THE BANKRUPT idiot airlines when it was that DIFFERENCE that made you so successful in the first place? I GET INFURIATINGLY DISGUSTED by the constant "this is industry-standard" rhetoric - WHO LOST THEIR MIND AT SWA?! DID ALL OF THE SENISBLE FOLKS RETIRE AND DIE?!?! STOP COMPARING yourselves to the BANKRUPT AIRLINE INDUSTRY!!! GO back thinking OUTSIDE of that destitute box like you used to do, not trying to get locked into it!!!
Why do I want this moving target and 50% loss of value change? I DO NOT! You do, so that you can screw a few pennies out of us and dismantle a once great up-and-coming airline to be a bloated PoS like all the rest. The biggest insult is that your marketing idiots also think that we are all completely moronic enough to will eat-up the obvious LIE that this is some kind of "ENHANCEMENT" - I know from those spam emails hawking other "enhancements" that this is no less of a screw job and bad news in my INBOX.
First you screw us out of our drink coupons, then you screw us out of being able to share our credits with others in our family or anyone, and now you screw us all truly royally with this total and complete dismantling, and the utter ruination, of an historic and award-winning airline rewards program.
Good luck on being United, UA, Delta and all of the rest of the losers. I'll simply find the lowest fare and not care if it's SWA or some other idiot airline the likes of which you have now officially joined. In fact, I just canceled my next flight and booked it with Delta for $100 less - at least I know that they'll treat me as well as you seem to want to treat me these days, and my seat is confirmed. Good luck on your upcoming bankruptcy, which is another industry standard that you'll be seeing soon now that you've become just like the other big airlines. Your lack of bag fees will go next, but even if not, you're so much like the others, and the others have ways of avoiding same that it won't mean a damn thing.
I've been using my SWA card like crazy for years, but I'll get my 16th point and bid you and your card a good riddance and spend as much, if not more, time on Orbitz and Hotwire as I do on southwest.com. You've lost your way with being DIFFERENT and by alienating your core, historical regional flyers. I sure hope there's lots of pharmaceutical employees who need to fly from Newark to SFO and LAX to keep you afloat. Somehow, I tend to doubt it, but good luck on courting them at the expense of your entire history and existing customer base of regional flyers, who now get a 50% markup on trying to earn rewards.
Congrats to your useless executive team on a crew job well done and may you reap what you sow.
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[Hmmm, no comments at all after 30 minutes...trying again - sorry if it's a duplicate!]
This new partnerpalooza is lame, to say the least.
The only partners are either signing-up for the Chase Visa, staying at one of two hotels in Vegas (they're both one "unique" partner...see below), a bunch of rental car companies and Teleflora.
In order to get the bonus credits, you have to use 3 or 6 "UNIQUE" partners, so 3 different orders between now and 12/15 at Teleflora, gets sweeps entries, but no bonus credit at all.
Since I ALREADY have the RR Visa and there's no way I'm going to Vegas between now and 12/15, I lose those opportunities. So all I can do is get some flowers (once), and then rent from 2-5 DIFFERENT rental car companies to get the bonus credit(s)?
As I said, *LAME* at best, so WHY BOTHER (unless you're feeling lucky for the sweeps - NOT)???
The first Partnerpalooza was genius and had LOTS of options, but this one might as well be filed under SPAM...
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