Southwest Airlines Southwest ruined my travel plans with their ridiculous fees and restrictions Dallas, Texas

I fly Southwest nearly every week. Have hundreds of thousands of points, A-List Preferred and a Companion Pass. I was too slow to book my Christmas flights. Waited until August or September. 

By then the points needed for a flight were pretty high. Decided to use close to 100,000 points vs. paying about $550 a ticket. This was months before you got around to calling.

If you really thought the free voucher was going to allow you to call in mid-November and book a flight the day before Christmas Eve, then one can only assume you don't fly much and/or you're just not very bright. 

As for 'using your card a lot and the points not adding up to much', this is based on an exact mathematical formula, not some arbitrary process. This just further reinforces that you either didn't read the specifics you were signing up for, or I repeat my assessment of your brain power from above. 

Wow, I didn't think anyone ever wanted to see their family at Christmas time?  I bet all the other folks who signed up for the same credit card promotion didn't have it in their minds to visit family around Christmas.  I bet those folks who might have had the same far fetched travel plan in their minds decided to book that trip asap in order to make sure they had seats during one of THE MOST TRAVELED TIMES IN THE ENTIRE YEAR!! It also seems to me that if you knew your sister was having a baby around that time..you would have known about the blessed event way before the November 2011 expiration date.  Maybe, just maybe,  you could have booked the trip say in the summer, before the expiration date...since you knew about this once in a lifetime event.  A report like yours, which isn't a rip off by the way, irritates me because you aren't making a real rip off claim. You come off as a self centered, entitled brat.  I can see it never occurred to you that other people would be traveling at that time.  It sounds like it never entered your mind that other people would have been offered the same credit card award.  Your report reads to me like a teenager who has been raised to believe that the world is in place for the sole purpose of being at your beck and call.  Me me me me. 

Have you looked at Calender lately?

December 23rd is the Friday BEFORE Christmas, you can almost guarantee that it will be far from a light travel day.  In fact it would probably be in the top 2 or 3 busiest days of the year.  As for December 31st,  traditionally Sundays are a fairly heavy day, and in combination of the end of a Holiday period will probably be quite busy.

As for the rest of your "RipOff".  That sounds about typical of just about every Airline mile or "reward" card.  They are all going to have fees and have very limited seats available to book on the flights. 

To be honest with you the best way to get a "reward" seat is to book as soon as the date you want to go becomes available.  For example Southwest generally only allows booking up to about 6-7 months in advance.  So if you wanted to go in December you probably should have started looking in about May.  But that doesn't even guarantee it because if they only had 2-3 seats available all it takes is one person to get them before you to make them no longer available.