Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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For those who are using points, the change in fees means the cost of each flight in points went up.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Yes, we're reading the same article. The cost in points only goes up if the base fare goes up.
If the base fare is the same, no change in points.
If the base fare goes down, points will go...
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Thanks for the tax update.
Do you (or anyone) happen to know if there is a hold on Travel Funds or Points if you happen to cancel a flight that was previously purchased with either Travel Funds or...
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Watch this vid and you'll have no reservations (pun, pun) on flying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YitWZj9QhdQ
Eddie
P.S. This is a vid from a NYC MD on the front lines treating COVID-19...
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Yeah, first thing I want to do is get on an airplane right now. That $10 savings might not look so "hot" when the Primary and/or hospital bills roll in.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Yeah,. I do that when I remember to. Also makes it easier to spend travel funds, since you can spend three on each leg rather than three in the total trip.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Not my experience. It means the change doesn't reduce the price in points. As he said in the link, the relative cost of the points went up because you can get the price for less if you pay cash.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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And quizzically, the same flight would show the new tax free fare ($33), but other flights would still show the regular $39 fare. Not sure if this was some artifact of the way the rules are applied...
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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I cant thank you enough for this. Absolutely great video. 🙏 :peace:
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Thanks for this. I wasn't familiar with the change itinerary. I logged in to take a look. Any experience or idea if you can use that for the same flight? I'm just looking to re-book the same...
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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I've done this with Southwest before when the fare dropped on an existing reservation. Easy through the website.
Go through the prompts as if you want to change your flight, search for and choose...
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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On Southwest just book one ways. You don't save anything with round trips and especially with their new reservation system it only makes it more of a pain if you need to cancel or change.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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These fees may be the excess fuel fees that carriers imposed on each flight when gas was high. They chose to keep charging passengers these fees last summer (as delta stated “we are passing savings...
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Pretty soon, if you fly, you might have the whole airplane to yourself! Nice, except their claimed "deep cleaning" will still lack the necessary steps to keep you safe.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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The low fare calendar is through October.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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It makes sense now. They did ultimately raise the base fare on all flights to consume the tax savings. So newly booked tickets will look the same to the purchaser in cash, but yes, more in...
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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I just rebooked a bunch of my Southwest flights for the rest of the year. Prices went down almost 20%..
$39 is now $33
$99 is now $82
YMMV depending on airline, flights, when you booked, etc....
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Been seeing a bunch of cheap flight deals lately (for obvious reasons). Strangely, what I'm not seeing are cheap hotel deals. You'd think these places would be giving away rooms at this point.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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If this can be done like late year in Nov/Dec, sure that’d be cool. But someone couldn’t pay me to get on a plane for the next 3 months.
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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No, they are available immediately....usually. I had to cancel a recent flight and they got locked up for a while. But a call to customer service got it fixed. Could have been because it was the...
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I just booked 5 flights yesterday and went back and checked them this morning. Luckily I bought all the Wanna Getaway cheap flights, so they're all more expensive than what I bought.
Looks like...
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Except for reward redemptions: https://thepointsguy.com/news/southwest-rapid-rewards-value/
Reduced airline taxes for flights on Southwest and others
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Hilton is at least offering free cancellation. So it allows you to book without any risk.
But yeah, surprising that they haven't dropped the cost. I wonder how many are closed entirely and have...
