{"id":11438,"date":"2025-03-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11438"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:56:43","slug":"wednesday-diversion-southwest-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/wednesday-diversion-southwest-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Diversion: Southwest Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’ve no doubt heard that Southwest announced they’d be moving from a mediocre product offering to a bad product offering yesterday<\/a> because literally every news outlet, blog, skywriter, and mommy stroller affiliate site wrote about it. I tried to ignore it here, but instead decided to write a quick summary in iambic pentameter to keep it fresh:

On fares most cheap, a fee doth now descend,
for Wanna Get Away, a basic name doth lend.<\/em>

Flight credits, once free, now swiftly fade,
yet open boarding’s chaos still we’ve made.<\/em>

Elites and cardholders find some gentle aid,<\/em>
yet still, no first class seats or distant shores are displayed.<\/em>

Midway’s woes persist, a traveler’s plight<\/em>,
even Spirit offers more comfort in its Big Front Seat’s light.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapid Rewards points now face variable fate,
their value shifting with each flight’s demand and date<\/em>.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry, even I feel dirty after that one.<\/p>\n\n\n

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When non-travel sites cover travel stories<\/a>:
Do they mean that (a) Southwest will charge the bag’s battery, or (b) that they expect the bag to pay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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