To bad i wasnt informed of this before i just paid for the wifi for my first flight...but apparently now instead of paying $8 to have wifi on all your Southwest flights for the entire day you have to pay $8 for every flight that day if you want wifi...so at least $16 for 95% of the flights unless you're lucky enough to be on one of the very rare non stop flights. That's absolutely ridiculous...especially when the Wi-Fi is slow if it works at all most the time - my flight 2 weeks ago, had a layover but my other flight was on the same exact plane (6+ hours on the same plane), and the wifi was broken and not one of the flight attendants even attempted to see what could be done. They were actually rather rude about it.
After the fiasco this last holiday season (which affected my flights as well) you'd think Southwest would be trying their best to not lose customers. Low cost airline? Nope - It's one of the most expensive anymore. Plus the fact a non stop flight is a rarity, flights are delayed more often than not, the new boarding pass set up is a joke, the flight crews are not nearly as friendly or good as they used to be, and now crappy (regardless of them changing companies) wifi that they wanna charge more for on top of all of it. Just about the only good thing SW has going for them is your first 2 checked bags fly free...but I'm sure that won't last long either at the rate their headed.
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