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Southwest and United promotions for Colorado flyers

Last week Southwest launched a promotion for Colorado residents, whereby those that sign up for a Rapid Rewards account get one free ticket for every roundtrip Business Select ticket they book to/from Denver by January 31 for travel through February 28.
United has sort of matched, although not surprisingly you need to be a lawyer to understand [...]

Posted on January 12th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Great Deals, Southwest, United | 6 Comments »

Double Southwest Rapid Rewards Credits

Through October 31, Southwest is offering one extra Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit for each one way trip. Only travel booked on or after September 17 will count (wonder if Southwest will learn from the legacies that this doesn’t work). Registration is required.
(Tip of the hat to Dan Webb)

Posted on September 17th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Free Miles/Points, Southwest | No Comments »

Southwest/Frontier Deal

Dan Webb made a brilliant post about the (surprising) Southwest bid for Frontier. I joined him last night (along with Flying with Fish) for a mini-podcast to share my thoughts, which were rather limited.
Spark Notes version: I don’t get it!

Posted on July 31st, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Southwest | No Comments »

OK, that was actually (really) funny….

Some frequent travelers avoid Southwest because of their onboard humor, which I can understand to a certain extent, especially for those that fly 100+ segments a year. While the normal set of jokes can get old, I think this flight attendant rap is hilarious (and extremely well done):
Am I the only one that thought that was [...]

Posted on April 26th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Humor, Southwest, Videos | 6 Comments »

Go Southwest!

While I have a lot of respect for Southwest Airlines, I rarely write about them. That’s probably because I don’t usually fly them and their frequent flyer program doesn’t interest me all that much. Nonetheless, the management style and fantastic employees always impress me and make me kinda jealous (don’t worry, I quickly come to my senses [...]

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Media, Southwest | 7 Comments »

Southwest bag fee commercial…

Thanks to Dan Webb for emailing this to me. Very well done by Southwest, in my opinion.

Posted on September 8th, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: Humor, Southwest, Videos | 2 Comments »

Family kicked off Southwest flight

Pardon me for being somewhat cynical and perhaps rude, but I couldn’t help but laugh after seing this video. This lady, Wendy Slaughter (heh) got kicked off a flight because her kids were being unruly. She even says, “the children were a little out of control on the flight…” If a mother says that I [...]

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: Southwest, Videos | 1 Comment »

Some airline news…

Since I’ve had less time on the web than I expected the past several days, I went through all of the airline forums on FlyerTalk this morning and was pleased to see that nothing too major has happened. Here are some of the minor things I did note:

Air Canada reported a first quarter loss of [...]

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: Air Canada, American, JetBlue, Southwest | 1 Comment »