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I'm too old for that stuff

another annoyance with traveling

and every 6 months I hear from some doctor/expert that switching clocks an hour is detrimental to your heath 

travelling with young kids is brutal
God bless them for accomplishing that task

Speaking of, in the AA lounge and some family has three young kids running around screaming. 

They should be kicked out.

The parents, not the kids.

always gave them an advantage with me
I almost always just check my bag

That's gonna piss off a lot of their loyal customers, I think. 

We never check bags.  Even when we were gone for 30 days last year, we both took one carry on and one backpack each for all our things. We did laundry twice during the trip.  I just don't trust the airlines not to lose our baggage and I hate waiting to get my baggage after the flight.

We are going on a 38 day trip in April/May, we are debating whether to check a bag this time, but I am still leaning to just doing the 2 carryons and 2 backpacks. 

Where the changes in Southwest hurt us, is the expiration of the flight.

We generally fly Southwest.  We have a southwest credit card where we charge almost all of our expenses.  Because of this we spent enough to earn a free companion pass for the year, every year for the past few years.  And then with the points earned we purchase many if not most of our flights with points and then companion free. So we fly completely free for most of our flight.  The only disadvantage is we fly quite a bit east and there are very few direct flights (another reason not to check bags)