Southwest has another sale going...ends tonight

Singersmom07
Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:19:01 +0000

when I book Southwest flights, I usually book them as two separate reservations. That way, if one leg of the flight goes on sale, but the return trip doesn’t (or visa versa), it makes it much easier to rebook one leg, than to cancel the whole reservation.



You do not have to do that. You can change just one leg. The cancel/change menu lets you choose which leg you are changing. I just did that for one of my flights. Instead of flying home after visiting DD at school for a performance, a client wanted me on their site the next Monday. So I just went in and changed the one leg. They only charged the difference. I then booked a separate trip home (the $99 one).

However, if there are more than 2 of you flying you may want separate reservations. I found that when I needed to change where I was going, but DH did not, I could not just change my leg. I had to change both of us. I would have had to cancel that leg and rebook us separately. Happy ending, he is going with me. It was so cheap to fly and make the change during the sale that it is a nice mini-vacation in SF for both of us.