[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Nah. I can change tickets if I need to without a ludicrous change fee. I don't get charged extra for a bag. And above all, I get honest pricing quotes that don't hide fees. (I'm looking at you, Frontier.)

I've purchased one - precisely one - ticket this past year on an airline other than Southwest. As luck would have it, I needed to change the ticket. The fees were so high that it was better for me to buy a ticket on Southwest than to change the (non-refundable) ticket that I had on United. So I learned my lesson about flying an airline other than Southwest.

The growth isn't in the type of buyer who needs easy fare changes though. It's the buyers who are locked in to a destination and time and are willing to eat the loss if they have to cancel since it's relatively cheap.