Southwest Companion Pass®: What You Need To Know For 2024
October 18, 2023
Spooky season is upon us, and Companion Pass season is heating up!
Getting the Southwest Companion Pass is all about the timing. You don’t want to be too early or too late to get the best value possible.
Let’s take a deep dive and cover everything you need to know about earning the Southwest Companion Pass for 2024.
What is the Southwest Companion Pass?
The Southwest Companion Pass is a buy-one-get-one-free(ish) ticket on Southwest Airlines for you and a designated companion.
Make Business Travel More Rewarding with Southwest Rapid Rewards Business
January 5, 2022
Southwest, long the stalwart of leisure travel, is entering the realm of business travel with the launch of the new Rapid Rewards Business program. The program is designed to reward businesses by offering their travelers an opportunity to earn Rapid Rewards points.
The companies can now earn Rapid Rewards points that can be applied toward travel on the company’s behalf.
Which Southwest Card(s) Are Right For You?
November 19, 2020
Banks don’t make it easy to select co-branded airline cards for frequent flyers. Not only do you have multiple airlines, but you also have multiple credit cards associated with the same airline, and it gets confusing, to say the least.
Southwest Airlines, in partnership with Chase, offers five co-branded cards to its flyers: three personal cards and two business cards. No wonder it’s hard to pick the best one, but we’re here to help.
Personal Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit Cards’ Perks and Benefits
Chase issues three consumer Southwest-branded credit cards.
Southwest Launches Promotional Companion Pass Offer
September 22, 2020
The infamous 2020 is soon coming to an end (and, if you ask me, its about time!). Although we still aren’t clear what travel is going to look like for 2021 and beyond, now is the time to at least start thinking about what you would like your travel goals to look like.
If you’re like many travelers, you may not be focused on much international travel.
Southwest & JetBlue Fare Sale: Flights Starting at $39
August 2, 2017
Through the end of today (11:59 pm Eastern Time or your local time, whichever is sooner) JetBlue is having a fare sale to tons of destinations, within the United States and also international. The cheapest fares, like between Long Beach and Reno/Tahoe for example, start at $39.
Through the end of tomorrow ("11:59 p.m.
Rapid Rewards,Delta,airbnb,Hilton,Virgin America
5 Ways to Earn Miles You Probably Didn’t Know About
February 9, 2017
The majority of us earn heaps of miles through sign up bonuses, maximizing category bonuses on credit cards, and flying. And at the end of the day, credit cards are the bread and butter that enable most of us to fly free in First Class.
But there are lots of other ways to earn miles, many of which are passive and all of which require little effort.
Southwest Massively Devalues Its Rapid Rewards Points
September 23, 2013
Southwest Rapid Rewards points used to be worth 1.69 cents each. Starting March 31, 2014, they will be worth about 1.44 cents each.
What is the exact devaluation?
Among the Six Types of Frequent Flyer Miles, Southwest has a fixed-value program. For every dollar of the "Wanna Get Away?" base fare, you have to spend 60 Rapid Rewards for an award ticket.
So a $220 Southwest ticket with a $200 base fare would be 12,000 Rapid Rewards + $5 in taxes as an award.