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Making the Most of Companion Pass

Do you have the Southwest Companion Pass? Perhaps you are working towards earning the coveted buy-one-get-one-free plane ticket pass that Southwest offers. You can read all about how to get Companion Pass on an earlier post here.

We are exploring the wonders that is companion pass.

First, earn companion as early as you can in a calendar year. Once you earn Companion Pass, your companion gets to fly free with you for the current calendar year AND the entire next calendar year. The earlier you earn it, the more chance you have to use it.

It doesn't matter who booked your ticket for you, the ability to add a companion  is tired to your rapid rewards number. If work books a trip for you, or your spouse has miles and books a trip on your behalf...it automatically shows up on your rapid rewards profile, and you can immediately add your companion to your trip.

Did you know you can switch your companion 3 times per CALENDAR year? So that means if you got companion early in 2018, you can switch your companion 3 times in 2018, and another 3 times in 2019. Beware...if you switch you companion you must cancel all future flights for your current companion.

Lap children can fly with your companion  too. So hypothetically if you have two lap children, you can buy a ticket for the primary person, add the adult companion for free and both of you can have a lap children. (If you're doing the math....that is buy one ticket, get 3 tickets free).

Get creative with your bookings. You may be thinking....companion  isn't helpful for me, we have a lot of places overseas we want to travel that Southwest doesn't fly to. Wrong, it can still save you TONS of money. Perhaps flights are $400 from NY to London....why not use companion to fly from your home city to NYC. Then get on that cheap flight to NYC. You could be saving hundreds of dollars just by using Southwest to fly to an airport that is known for cheaper flights out of the country to your destination.

Book their not-as-publicized overseas/island locations. Did you know Southwest is planning to offer flights to Hawaii late 2018 or 2019? Did you know they also fly to a few foreign countries like Bahamas, Cancun, and Jamaica to name a few? Companion Pass works for those flights too!
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