Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.
This is just not LUVable. While it's not overly complicated math, now for planning purposes it is even harder now than the other airlines, where at least I can add miles up.
To much here to know if/when I get an award, how close/far I am ... did you focus group this New Coke formula? Look - make it more flights to get a award, keep blackouts or require those to be Freedom, or more credits required for longer haul rewards (and give us more credits if we take a longer haul flight?), but you've really taken the simplicity out of it. And SIMPLICITY is what I LUV(ed?) about Southwest!
You see - while my company encourages savings, I went with a Business Select fare (at a $20 premium over Anytime) that together with the WGA on the return leg was STILL 2x what I would have paid had I flown big ol' Delta. I did this because I know the overall value of SWA and RR.
Now ... I'll get up to my next Reward (hopefully before 3/1) and then start price shopping. Bags don't matter to the business traveler - we either pay the fee or we pack light anyway.
This is probably the first time I've EVER been disappointed in Southwest - EVER - and it's a doozy. And I was looking forward to the day you were giving me an alternative on the BWI-ATL trips.
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