<p>Just tried to book Boston to LAX and back over Christmas. Turns out Southwest has no service from December 29 through September 4th. When I couldn’t book online I called and the agent checked around. Came back and told me the bad news. Couldn’t really say why. They have a service blackout during those dates.
If you are booking you will have to use another carrier 
so may want to book now.</p>
<p>Ebeeee…that is ODD. DD has a reservation from San Jose to Hartford…and back…on Southwest departing San Jose December 12 and returning on Jan 3.</p>
<p>Are you saying Southwest isn’t flying AT ALL during that time period? At this point they are only taking reservations until Jan 10 or so.</p>
<p>Edit…just checked the SW website. Looks like its the flight from LAX to BOS that is not operating during that time period.</p>
<p>Sorry yes just LAX to BOS. For some reason they have no service during that period. I couldn’t imagine that would happen and it messed up my reservation plan.
Sorry if my post was misleading.</p>
<p>American and Virgin have non-stops for under $350 round trip.</p>
<p>Yup. Going with American.</p>
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<p>Is this a typo? Do you mean Jan 4th? If not, my Southwest voucher is not going to be useful.</p>
<p>Okay so now you can tell it was 5 am when I posted. I definitely meant Dec. 29 through Jan 4.
SORRY!</p>
<p>It does not always mean no service, it can mean they are not accepting reservations for those dates yet. They may be assessing routes and need. It is one of their newer routes.</p>
<p>Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if those were blacked out as a condition of Southwest’s application to start service out of Logan (Boston). It just began this month. </p>
<p>Logan is a small but very busy airport. Given all the colleges in the Boston area, the time of year is even busier.</p>
<p>If you do want to travel Southwest, you could probably get flights from either Manchester, NH or Providence, RI.</p>
<p>Southwest also pulls service from La Guardia to So Cal during that period. It’s disheartening since we have frequent flier points for free flights. I don’t know why they do it, but they do, and I wish they didn’t.</p>