{"id":1687,"date":"2021-06-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:32:46","slug":"southwest-schemes-and-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/southwest-schemes-and-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Schemes and it Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what seems to be a recurring theme for 2021, another airline is having an anniversary contest in an attempt to generate marketing buzz, and, unfortunately, it\u2019s working. (It worked for <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/aa-schemes-and-it-works\/\">AA<\/a> and <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/united-schemes-and-it-works\/\">United too<\/a>.) Who\u2019s next? If it\u2019s a big US carrier, the only real option is Delta. I\u2019m resolving right now to not fall into writing about a Delta anniversary scheme because at least once this year I don\u2019t want to be played by an airline\u2019s marketing department. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Southwest has a 50th anniversary game going <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/southwest50.com\/wannagetaway\/\">between now and June 18 at this link<\/a>. You can enter once per day per Rapid Rewards account. My P2 won 50 Rapid Rewards points and I won nothing and got played. (That said, I did end up winning about 18,000 miles in the AA sweepstakes, so I will be playing this Southwest one daily, unless it plays me, amirite?)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1688\" height=\"524\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/scheming.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/scheming.png 450w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/scheming-258x300.png 258w\" width=\"450\"\/><figcaption>Live capture of Southwest\u2019s marketing department scheming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what seems to be a recurring theme for 2021, another airline is having an anniversary contest in an attempt to generate marketing buzz, and,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7280,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/7280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}