I, too, am frustrated with the lack of schedule beyond May 10th. I've been checking southwest.com literally every day (sometimes several times a day) since December 8. Every day that I have checked for well over a month now, I have been disappointed to see no such expanded schedule.
Why have I been checking so often? Southwest is the only carrier which flies nonstop to Las Vegas from my general area (western NY-- BUF is close, ROC is closer). I was able to book a one-way flight out in May, but I am desperately trying to book my flight back home.
I would prefer to do so on Southwest because of the availability of a nonstop flight.
However, at this point, I am seriously looking into booking it on JetBlue or Delta. Sorry to bring up the competitors, but their schedules go through August or later. Every day I delay, I lose out on specials.
So, this has been stated before in this blog, but how can Southwest really tolerate losing potential customers like me? I understand the "120/180" rule, but at this point, we're well under 120 days out and have been for quite some time. I am still hoping for a miracle, but it looks like any day now I'm going to go to another carrier for my flight home. I'd rather not, but these delays are causing me to sway in this direction.
By the way, on a positive note, I am glad that this blog exists and I'm happy to read some of the comments. It's great that customers and employees are able to converse openly in a "town hall" atmosphere like this. Keep up the good work-- but, like the rest of everyone here, I am really strongly wanting a schedule which pushes much farther into the future.
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