Southwest Airlines

Finding good airline tickets is usually a difficult process and a lot of it depends on good timing.  When we know that we are going to be taking a trip, my husband turns the travel arrangements over to me and washes his hands of the whole matter.  I have found that in all of my travel arranging, that by far the best airline to deal with is Southwest.  Not only is their website very user friendly, but if you do ever need to talk to customer service, they too are friendly.

There are a number of reasons that one should choose Southwest Airlines, the first being their air fare rate.  Usually they have the best fare rates for the region that they travel in.  Second, there is not an additional fee for baggage (up to two bags).  I can’t stand booking  what I thought was a great priced ticket and then finding out I owe up to $100 more for my two bags!

The absolute best thing about Southwest though, is their cancellation policy.  I find great peace in knowing that when I book a flight with them, that if my plans change and I have to cancel, or if I find a better rate, I can cancel my ticket and use the credit to rebook without a penalty or extra change fee.  I am not aware of any other airline that offers this.

They have a feature on their website called “Ding Fares” and if you sign up for this, fare specials come up on your desk top daily for the airports that you have selected.  With this feature I don’t have to keep checking their site for sales.

The last thing that I will say about Southwest Airlines is that they usually have great flight staff.  I recall a flight back from Los Angeles where the attendants were having entirely too much fun singing into the microphone and rolling bags of peanuts down the isle to us.  My kids could not believe that the captain actually joined in and told a few jokes over the system.  Maybe they should have stopped though, when they started auctioning each other off for a date that evening!