Southwest Airlines Community

@floridaguy it's done that for years, you're an idiot troll   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@floridaguy wrote:   You, on the other hand, were averse to change.   How so? I just didn't care for idiot trolls  ... View more

@dfwskier wrote: Maybe you did get one post right in your time on the community after all. Even an idiot troll gets one thing right occasionally.    --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

Do not close a card within the first year.  Just take the card you applied for and you can request a product change to another card after the annual fee hits in a year.   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

As noted, you can have a personal card and a business card. In fact, you can have both business cards in addition to one personal card. You may also want to consider closing your personal card and getting a new one as you can get a sign up bonus every 24 months. If you wait a bit and obtain a personal card and a business card at the end of the year or at beginning of next year you can easily obtain Companion Pass for all of 2025 and 2026.   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

Maybe the points gods are watching out for you.  Buying points, especially on Southwest, rarely makes sense.  Southwest points are always worth less than what you pay for them.  Some other airlines occasionally have sales where you get a deal, but not Southwest.  The new booking option that allows you to book with points and cash is also a bad deal, but probably makes more sense than just buying the points so just use that if you are short on points.  I have not done the exact math to compare the two options since both are just bad options overall when compared to paying 100% with points earned and not purchased.   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@ramosg what part of these screens is not clear about the cost to transfer points?     --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@Johnvback wrote: The answer seems pretty easy. Pre-boarders should be required to proceed to the last row and completely fill all six seats. You've clearly never read the criteria to qualify for preboarding, "Customers with disabilities who need a specific seat to accommodate a disability"   --TheMiddleSeat     ... View more

@rlhouk none of your "suggestions" can be legally implemented under existing federal laws and regulations with open seating. You also don't pay for any particular seat, you pay for A seat and an A1-15 boarding position that comes with Business Select fares. You also know preboarding occurs before A1-15 and will continue to board before A1-15 as long as Southwest has open seating so please don't claim to have any entitlement to any particular seat or even set of rows. As you have found, if you want to have a particular seat then you will need to fly another airline. Lastly, to say it once again, there is no visual way for you or anyone else to determine if an individual is eligible for preboarding. To determine and claim abuse is blatant is to claim people are either confessing to you or you have some magic power unknown to mankind.   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@Flying_Slug as there is no way to visually determine someone's qualification for preboarding and no one has ever told me they are faking, which is the only way to know someone is abusing the system, I can say I don't know if anyone is faking or taking advantage of preboarding. If someone has told you they abuse the system, then you may know there is a fake, but you cannot look at someone and determine their eligibility.   All these people judging people solely by their looks as they preboard or deplane need to mind their own business.    --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@Flying_Slug "If you see a person placidly strolling around an airport"   There you go again claiming you can magically spot disabilities, yet you claim that's not what you are doing. Observing someone's physical actions has nothing to do with their qualification to preboard.    --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@kDub2022 wrote: It’s pretty easy - you see them walk off the plane without any issues.  In some cases you see them walk the entire time with no apparent issues!  I.e. walking up to the counter to make sure they can preboard, walking to get something before the flight, walking to get in line, walking onto the airplane.    I’m always curious how they got from their house and to the airport. Even the Southwest staff recognizes them and you can pick up an occasional comment.  i think they even have an internal name they use for them.   @kDub2022 nope. Someone could hop, skip, and jump all the way to the plane and still have a legitimate reason to preboard. Your belief that you know all is the problem here.   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@Flying_Slug once I saw "The number of them fakes is increasing" I knew your post was garbage. Please tell me how you can magically see all disabilities.    --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

Hold up... You're canceling your Chase credit card, which earns points, but doesn't store them, to protest a lack of security on your Southwest account which actually stores the points. OK, sure. 🤦 It certainly doesn't achieve your goal of not leaving your points in an "unsecured" account. An account which isn't actually unsecured, it's just not as secure as you would like.   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@Jima wrote: Charge a pre-boarding fee of $10 for the privilege of getting on before the Business Select customers.  I'll take things that are against the law for $500, @Jima   Thanks for playing   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

@ericraber wrote:   No mentionef of 62"     It's at the top of that section. Please learn to read before complaining.  "If the item of sporting equipment exceeds 50 pounds in weight or 62 inches in size (outside length plus height plus width), excess weight and size charges may apply."   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

Newly found perk of the Southwest Performance Business credit card is that it will reimburse you for the fees to transfer points to someone else, up to $500 per year. Otherwise, as suggested, don't do it.   Thanks for the shout-out   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

Wow! A50 and still complaining?  As stated by @dfwskier you only get in A1-15 through the purchase of Business Select or upgraded boarding so you weren't even eligible for those spots.   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

What fare type did you purchase? Are you or is anyone in your party A-List?    I've never heard of EBCI being gifted and adding it is a pretty intentional act, it would be hard to "accidentally" add it. However, it's not totally out of the realm of possibility that Southwest gifted it. I just would look at more logical explanations first.    --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

Have to? No. They can be placed in the overhead bin if you want to take them onboard or gate checked if you would prefer.    --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

UPS did actually offer passenger service back in the day.    https://simpleflying.com/what-happened-to-ups-passenger-services/   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

I don't believe you can edit the Rapid Rewards account number associated with a reservation without calling Southwest. You can add a number to a reservation on southwest.com, but I don't think you can change an existing number attached to a reservation online.    Before you call, let's clarify what you are trying to do. Each passenger can only have their own Rapid Rewards account number assigned to their ticket. If you are trying to put your RR account number on the ticket for someone else you cannot do that. If you put your RR number on someone else's ticket and want to change it to their RR account number or someone else's number is attached to your ticket, then you will need to call Southwest.   If this is a past/completed flight keep in mind only the person who actually flew can earn RR points. You cannot put your RR number on someone else's reservation and expect to earn RR points.    --TheMiddleSeat ... View more

You can certainly submit your suggestion directly to Southwest.  Use the contact us link below and send a message.   Looking at the current destinations from PNS it appears Southwest is more interested in getting people into the Southwest network, going to larger "hubs" where they can make connections to anywhere in the country rather than focusing on intra-Florida travel.  This is the typical scenario for smaller airports Southwest flies to.   --TheMiddleSeat ... View more