Southwest revamps Rapid Rewards...

While I don't follow Gary that much, I do read Lucky on a daily basis and understand why WN has little appeal to you. When 90% of your but in seat miles are "running" it makes sense to do so on a carrier with F.

But for someone who travels multiple times a week for work, WN holds a ton of appeal. For many of us arriving on time with our luggage (often work equipment, not clothes) is the biggest factor. While a bump is more future trips for you, it is a missed appointment or more time away from home for me.

Also the tiered redemption makes sense. How many times have we seen complaints about star net blocking. WN now has every seat available for redemption, the last one just takes more points than the first.

@Left Seater

did you hear that WN's December 2010 on-time arrival rate was only 50%? and in November about 60%?

Also, UA has a standard award, -you can buy the last available seat for just twice the miles. but whether the last seat on one-way SFO-JFK Y is $500 or $1000, you only have to pay 25,000 miles. On WN the points you need to redeem will double and you will have to pay up cash. On UA, if you have MP visa if you don't have enough miles, you can pay part of it with the miles.

@saaws

If you are talking about the Chicago Sun Times story, yes. But I will wait until the feds numbers are out to see what those say. Flight stats was way off in Oct also, FYI the last month the feds numbers are published.

Also unless you are going coast to coast non-stop WN still beats connecting on UA or AA etc. So even if WN is delayed 15 mins I will still beat you while you are changing planes and jumping on the CRJ.