Southwest has cut the amount of points you earn by flying with them by a lot for Wanna Get Away fares.
| Prior | Now |
|---|---|
| Wanna Get Away – 6pts per $1 | Wanna Get Away – 2pts per $1 |
| Wanna Get Away Plus – 8pts per $1 | Wanna Get Away Plus – 6pts per $1 |
| Anytime – 10pts per $ | Anytime – 10pts per $1 |
| Business Select – 12pts per $1 | Business Select – 14pts per $1 |
To make the changes even worse the earning rates affect flights that have already been purchased that haven’t occurred yet.
Hat tip to bazingy-benedictus
It’s over Johnny, It’s Over ! 😭 Southwest cutting spree!
Did you really think this comment was so funny that you had to repeat it in three separate SW posts?
Just received an email that Southwest is going to start charging for checked bags.
Starting 5/28 only A-list preferred and those paying for business select seating will get 2 free checked bags. A-list and those who have a Southwest credit card will get 1 free checked bag. All others will pay.
Those 3 month free companion offers comes with a cost =X
So if ticket prices remain the same this increased the price of WGA 5.2%?
this is why airline status is crap unless you get it automatic with a credit card. Go with the cheapest is usually the best for average traveler. Transfering points from a travel card.
#SouthWorst
Southwest’s new slogan: We’re still better than Spirit.
Much of the time I was doing WGA+ for the free same day change privileges anyway (just book the cheapest flight of the day and change it to the flight you want the morning of, if you don’t have issues with a middle seat, which I normally don’t since I fly Southwest for flights shorter than 2 hours). I earned most of my points from Chase transfers and not from flying, and I think most people earned more points from the card.
But you risk not being able to get on the flight you want if it is sold out
True, but on the days I fly I almost never get a sold out flight, and I generally fly city pairs with eight flights or more a day. I wish Southwest would treat alternate airports as the same city, which would be handy for SFO/OAK/SJC or LAX/LGB/BUR/SNA/ONT where I am indifferent to what airport I land at, but oh well.
wait…. it’s the same price?????
, I don’t fly SW much since they are domestic only. on my return flight on southwest recently, maybe 60 passengers in whole flight, 40 of them were either sitting on wheelchairs or with fake knee plaster to board early. once they got in, all of them stretched their legs and exited upon landing without any issue.
Somehow I have the feeling that Tim is not an accurate reporter.
Probably not, as the number of gate lice was likely closer to 50 than 40.
Southwest is the only one who can get away with this…! Literally getting away from a near plane crash with another plane
Looks like point earnings on existing bookings are not affected – my bookings made before today still show the 6x rate.
Adding DP that mine are showing as 6x as well still
Going for status on Southwest already seemed like a questionable proposition – this makes it utterly worthless. You’d do better collecting Skypesos on Delta.
I hope this means WN will never try to do a ‘basic economy fare’ because you really can’t go below a measly 2pts/$ -_-
Zero is a number, just ask Delta.
Lol I knew Delta was bad but didn’t think any of the mainlines had reached ZERO. Even AA is a 2pts/$ for Basic. Thanks for sharing!
How can you change the deal on already purchased tickets? That seems illegal or at least cause for getting full original refund.
You gonna contact the cfpb?
*beep boop beep*
We’re sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service.
Right there at the top of the program terms:
“Southwest reserves the right to amend, suspend, or change the program and/or program rules at any time without notice.”
Going from trying to shoot themselves in the foot to the head pretty quick aren’t they?
The result of aggressive pushes from giant activist hedge fund assholes for whom corporate greed is never intense enough, the profits never massive enough, the dragon-esque pile of gold dubloons in the hoard never large enough. This is why they are wrecking WN to extract the last few possible nuggets of lucre with homogenized trash like assigned seats and “better” seating up front so they have yet another thing to monetize and squeeze blood from, despite the fact that WN is pretty much the only airline that has been steadily profitable for decades…unlike every other pathetic legacy carrier that swings from bankruptcy and begging for taxpayer money to stay afloat to profit time with extreme overdone labor contracts and nonstop “reward” devaluation and enshittification.
FUUUUUUUUU SOUTHWEST!!!
They want it all, the money that is.
Fine by me as long as they don’t devalue our points by increasing the number of points required per wanna get away airfare dollar.
They did that a few years ago. Haven’t seen sub 6k point flights in years…like we used to.
I’ve got a few 3469 point flights upcoming. Cincinnati to Orlando RT.
That’s coming soon
So is that… a 66% nerf? Jeez that’s nuts….
I assume so they can say “get triple points when you book WGA+”
Was 6pts/dollar = 6*1.25 = 7.5% bonus
Now it’s down to 2.5%, we really lost 5% on cash back, which is huge.
7.5% was great, 2.5% is yawn-worthy
This is horseshit
No, it’s bullcrap
Nerf after nerf across every loyaty program/rewards
Since I get all my points from churning Southwest credit cards, this doesn’t effect me yet. But with all the changes that are going on at Southwest, I’m sure there will be major changes to companion pass qualifying points. I have the companion pass until the end of 2026. For some reason I suspect it will be the last.
Just got my CPass and I too have the feeling that I won’t be pursuing another one after 2026 🙁
Usually you are a bit more confident Frank and I am the pessimist.