DiscoverFamilies Fly Free With Lyn Mettler193 | 🎯 Southwest Changes Simplified: New Fares, Assigned Seats, Bag Fees - Oh My!
193 | 🎯 Southwest Changes Simplified: New Fares, Assigned Seats, Bag Fees - Oh My!

193 | 🎯 Southwest Changes Simplified: New Fares, Assigned Seats, Bag Fees - Oh My!

Update: 2025-08-13
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The price of the Families Fly Free membership is going up very soon!

Join now at the lowest price you will ever see membership again and get all the value I added in 2025, including a brand new app so help is just a tap away, at the current price. Now's the time to plan your family's 2026 travels and put traveling with your family back at the top of your to-do list.

Learn more and join at FamiliesFlyFree.com/Join.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Attend our Families Fly Free Open House on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 2pm ET, 1pm CT, Noon MT, 11am PST to learn more about membership, ask me and current members all your questions, as well as win fun travel prizes like a Hyatt Suite Upgrade, Southwest points and more!

Register --> FamiliesFlyFree.com/OpenHouse


Southwest has made a flurry of changes in 2025 — from charging for bags and introducing assigned seats to rolling out brand-new fare types and tweaking credit card perks, including increasing their annual fees. And they’ve managed to make things very complicated. But here’s the good news: I’ve cut through the clutter to get to the heart of what actually matters in my trademark "keep it simple stupid" approach 😉.

In this episode, I’ll show you the few simple adjustments you need to make so you can:

  • Keep flying Southwest for the same cost (or less) as before (yes, really!)
  • Make only slight changes to the way we’ve always flown Southwest for free 
  • Understand how to KEEP getting free bags, as well as free assigned seating and navigate the new fare rules

You’ll walk away knowing exactly what to do to keep your Southwest travel FREE, easy and smooth.

💡 Free Bonus: Get my one-page cheat sheet that explains all the changes in plain English — plus the exact tweaks you need to make to your own Southwest strategy, including how to change a Basic Fare (yes, it's possible!):

👉 SecretsofaTravelJournalist.com/Changes

Join Families Fly Free
Southwest — and travel rewards in general — can get complicated fast. But inside Families Fly Free, I show you how to skip the confusion, ignore the noise and use my simple Fly Free Formula™ to get maximum travel with the minimum number of cards.

I’ve been flying my family of 4 free 6x a year on Southwest (and beyond) since 2015, and I’ve boiled it down to a clear, repeatable plan that anyone can follow. Whether you’re traveling with kids, a spouse, friends or solo, this formula works. Let me make it simple for you.

👉 Join Families Fly Free: FamiliesFlyFree.com

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193 | 🎯 Southwest Changes Simplified: New Fares, Assigned Seats, Bag Fees - Oh My!

193 | 🎯 Southwest Changes Simplified: New Fares, Assigned Seats, Bag Fees - Oh My!

Lyn Mettler