I booked my first Southwest flight today. BDL-BWI-BDL on the weekend of 14th of June. While I was at it, I signed up for rapid rewards and just to my surprise I discovered that I will not get a credit for the first flight as I will not have my Rapid Rewards card by then... No other airline served BWI and for the price differential between UAL to IAD and WN to BWI I could get a rental car for that weekend. Let's see how my experience will be in WN. You can assure that there will be a trip report about it :) BAHA Fan of taking WN for short trips but not for long ones.