For those of you who don’t have the perk of non-rev tickets, (and that includes me), I have to agree with Tim Winship at Smarter Travel. Southwest Airlines usually never offers a really “good” promo. As Tim writes today, “On the scale of promotional activity, Southwest usually scores somewhere between “Rare” and “Infrequent.”

But they are offering one now — and it’s not a bad deal at all.

Southwest is offering Rapid Rewards members a free ticket for flying two paid long-distance round-trip flights between September 1 and November 15. (For purposes of this offer, ‘long distance’ is defined as flights of 1,250 or more miles each way, including stops and connections. There’s a list of eligible routes on Southwest’s website.)

Qualifying tickets must be purchased on Southwest.com. A maximum of two awards may be earned during the promotion period.

Normally, Rapid Rewards members earn a free round-trip after every eight paid round-trips.

Of course, those of us with financially-inclined minds have to wonder — if the airline is doing this does this mean that bookings are looking a bit slow as they look out over the fall period?

I don’t think there’s any need to take any bets on that one.

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