Just saved about $800 on a trip that was supposed to be $1000! FI and I are going to Richmond, VA for a wedding in June and booked our hotel and flights tonight. The hotel will be about $300, and our flights and rental car are $200 when they would have been a thousand, woohoo!!
To make this happen, I checked out the SW website and booked all four flights(FI and I on a round trip) individually b/c they're running a sale on one way flights. FI remembered that he had cancelled a flight in January so we were able to apply those funds on one of his flights and he and I both had enough SW points to each book a one way flight for the $2.50 transaction fee. That only left a one way flight for me to actually pay for and the other three were free or basically free.
Definitely beats driving a 24 hr round trip and paying way too much! Oh, and the flights are non stop Tampa to Baltimore. Woohoo!! I can handle four hours in a rental car ;-)