{"id":415,"date":"2020-12-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:52:26","slug":"southwest-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/21\/southwest-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t exactly a secret, but it\u2019s not well socialized either. Thanks initially to the 737-MAX grounding and now due to COVID waivers, periodically Southwest Airlines lets you change to any flight \u00b1 30 days when you book within certain windows. (I\u2019m not sure they want to do this, but they run an archaic computer system and it\u2019s what they can do without breaking it.)<\/p>\n<p>The play is to find the cheapest award or cash booking on a ticket you want to fly, book it, then change to the actual itinerary you want within 30 days for no additional points or cash. (Book SLC-SAN at 4:30 AM on a Saturday for 4,008 points, then change it to Monday at 5:00 PM.) You can do this online, no need to talk to an agent.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the booking window for free \u00b1 30 days changes is February 11 through March 5, 2021, so you can fly cheap between January 11 and April 7. Yes, Southwest flies to Florida too, sorry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vintage NEC computer from the 1960s with relays, knobs, a printer, and tape spools.\" class=\"wp-image-416\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/timeline_computers_1960.neac2203.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/timeline_computers_1960.neac2203.jpg 800w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/timeline_computers_1960.neac2203-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/timeline_computers_1960.neac2203-768x576.jpg 768w\" width=\"400\"\/><figcaption>Southwest Airlines\u2019 Amadeus Computer Reservation System (circa 2020).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t exactly a secret, but it\u2019s not well socialized either. Thanks initially to the 737-MAX grounding and now due to COVID waivers, periodically Southwest<\/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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7396,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}