Originally Posted by AirBear

Depends on where you live. I'm in CLT and very rarely had anything other than a 1 leg airline to my jet. Was "gold" on AA. Now coming home was a bit different, they will go cheap. I can non-rev on AA and used that a few times to get home when booked on an airline other than DL or AA. And you can always "dummy" the ticket and make your own arrangements that'll be reimbursed up to what they paid for the original schedule. And because I'm in CLT I can count on my fingers how many times I rode SWA in 14 years.