Also, if there are vacant seats between the same cities, you can get a seat confirmed on another flight on the day of your trip for free. Also, if the flight is full, we will wait on the day (using the airline Wanna Get Away). Basic tickets, customers are stuck with the difference in fares).
A complete list of features can be found here. This category, which airlines have been teasing for months, shows the airline’s first fare launch since 2007.
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The addition of categories will also change the high fares of airlines. The same transferable flight credit feature applies to both the Business Select and Anytime categories (refundable along with other benefits).
Airlines will also add benefits such as Priority Lane access and Early Bird Check-In to Anytime. This gives you a better boarding position and is especially useful as Southwest does not allocate seats.
Early Bird is sold separately and can be run for $ 15 to $ 25 one way. Business Select customers already have access to priority boarding positions. The functionality of the WannaGetAway fare category remains unchanged.
Andrew Watterson, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Southwest Airlines, said in a briefing: One is customer satisfaction with the expanded product selection, and the economic benefit to the company from a reasonable percentage of customers buying new or improved products. “
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In recent years, airlines have increasingly divided their seats into categories with different perks and complex names. Currently, most US airlines have basic economy and economy versions, and benefits vary by airline for each fare category.
Watterson emphasized that in the case of Southwest, future changes will provide additional services. “We aren’t robbing anything,” he said.
Management refused to specify the price because of regulatory restrictions, but marketing, loyalty, and product vice president Jonathan Clarkson said the increase in Wanna GetAway Plus was “modest.” The airline did not announce the dates of the changes, but Clarkson said they would take place later in the second quarter of this year.
Watterson said Thursday that the Wanna Get Away fare “will continue to be our cornerstone and will make up the majority of our purchases.”