Southwest Airlines: Mini skirts & mini fare sales
Hey, when telling a passenger her skirt is too short gets widespread attention, why not throw a national “MiniFares” sale in with your apology? Southwest Airlines has a good sense of humor, and luckily so did Kyla Ebbert who modeled the outfit in question on the Today Show last week.
“The publicity caught us with our pants down, quite frankly. The story has such great legs, but we have an even better sense of humor, so we’re going to jump out there and lower our fares to match the mini skirts we’ve all been hearing so much about,” said Southwest’s CEO Gary Kelly.
Deal: Take advantage of SWA’s minifares with one-way tickets from $49-109 with 14-day advanced purchase (pre-tax). To get the low fare you have to fly on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday.
When: Book by Sep. 24, for travel beginning Sep. 28 through Nov. 15, 2007
Sample Round-trip Fares (including taxes and fees):
I was able to find the following fares in October or November
BUR to Chicago, IL (Midway) — $229
BUR to Austin, TX — $250
BUR to Phoenix, AZ — $119
LAX to Las Vegas, NV — $118
LAX to San Francisco, CA — $99
LAX to New York, NY —$260
LAX to New Orleans, LA — $257
Contact: Southwest.com
Related Los Angeles Times links:
In-flight dress codes? How skimpy is too skimpy?
Southwest Airlines: Fly 2 round-trips, get 1 free
LAX – SFO: Fly three, get one free on Southwest
[Photos: Southwest Airlines]
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September 15th, 2007 at 6:17 am
Hurray for Mr Gary Kelly. Go miniskirts. As the mother of a flight attendant, I don’tlike that my child has to be the fashion police. I do not like vulgar tee shirts and i mean the nasty vulgar writings on the shirt. That should be address before they ever get to the gate. What a great marketing tool.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Aren’t these the same prices as before. I booked my San Diego to Las Vegas flight a month ago and it was $118.00….What is the deal here?
September 16th, 2007 at 12:51 am
One irony I see here — among many, to say the least — is that, according to Southwest’s website, “Orange County, CA and Hawaii are not included in this sale.”
So, to recap, Ms. Ebbert is from San Diego and has been compensated for her troubles with two free Southwest tickets. BUT the MiniFares sale excludes what, at somewhere around 87 miles from San Diego, may one of her home-base airports.
Let’s hope that if Ms. Ebbert should decide to try to use her free tickets for a flight departing SNA that Southwest would honor her vouchers.
- Andrew
Sr. Editor & Producer
travel.latimes.com
September 16th, 2007 at 1:16 am
Can’t you bloody Yanks find anything more important to fight about? Some overzealous fundamentalist christian wanker who’s ugly fat wife hasn’t given him any for months decides to take out his frustration on a young woman …… and you write things that support him????? Bloody Wanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 17th, 2007 at 8:10 am
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September 17th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Look, you non US American… face it, you and your country suck… I don’t even know where you’re from. Why would you make a blanket comment on All Americans? or should I say Yanks… (Bloody Yanks, I would guess you’re Brittish… hmmm can’t control your lil brother?? ) Get a job, stop being on the internet at 1:30 am…. you f-n Wanker! How many time do the Britts do it a night? Not like Vegas kNights. King that you bloody peasant..