If I’m missing something, please let me know! If you’ve ever booked a Southwest flight outside of, please comment below if you’re up for it. We need a guinea pig to book one of these flights & see what happens. I checked 10 of the major travel booking sites, and the only other one that displayed the prices on Southwest flights was Momondo, which linked to three smaller sites selling the flights: Is Skiplagged the only one offering Southwest flights?

I checked the price of the same flight on, and it was available without the service fee, so $15 cheaper: I really just use Skiplagged to compare/track fares and find “hidden-city” options, while booking my flights directly with airlines. I’ve never booked a flight directly through Skiplagged, so I have no idea how it works, or if Southwest’s standard T&Cs apply. I believe this service fee depends on the airline, because some have a fee on Skiplagged and some don’t (Delta flights appear to charge a 3.5% fee, while American, United and Alaska don’t charge a fee). It looks like there’s a fee for some airlines when booking directly with Skiplagged, which is also news to me. Important note: when you click to book the flight, it looks like Skiplagged’s own booking service that books the flight. Southwest has historically not allowed 3rd-party travel sites to sell its flights. I don’t know how long this has been active, but I just noticed it. So this week I noticed Southwest Airlines flights appearing in Skiplagged searches. If you want to make an educated guess on whether your flight could drop in price, check out the data Skiplagged provides next to each flight in your search:īecause of the price history I guessed that the flight above would drop in price, since it was more than a month out from the flight, and I snagged the flight when it dropped into one of its $197 valleys. Here I can see that fares on a sample route don’t start to rise drastically in price until you’re 8-12 days out from a given departure date:Ģ.

How early should you buy a flight? Skiplagged gives you an idea by showing how far out fares on your route start to skyrocket. I’m on Skiplagged constantly because these two tools make it my fave spot for tracking flight prices:ġ.

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