The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. I would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. Using this technique, numerous travelers have been able to use a Companion Pass for nearly 24 months - from early January of the first year to Dec. This change is especially bad news for anyone who just signed up for new Southwest credit cards with the intention to wait until January 2020 to earn the sign-up bonus. For those still working toward earning a Companion Pass in 2019, you'll still earn it once you earn 110,000 qualifying points. The good news is that this change isn't going to take effect until Jan. That requirement is being increased to 125,000 qualifying points. Under current rules, a Rapid Rewards member needs to earn 110,000 Companion Pass-qualifying points in a calendar year to earn the perk. This perk entitles a Rapid Rewards member the ability to take a pre-selected companion with them on paid and award flights for only the cost of taxes and fees - which can be just $5.60 for one-way domestic flights. The bad news impacts one of our favorite travel perks: the Southwest Companion Pass.
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Related: How to keep your points and miles from expiring Increase to Companion Pass requirements That leaves American Airlines and Alaska as two notable outliers in still having a mileage expiration policy. Southwest and United join Delta and JetBlue in having no expiration policy. This policy change comes less than two months after United announced the elimination of its points expiration policy. Before today, Southwest required earning activity within the past 24 months to keep points from expiring.Īs someone who didn't read this policy closely enough and had a few thousand Southwest points expire in February 2019, I'm happy to hear that others won't suffer the same fate going forward. 17, Southwest Rapid Rewards points will no longer expire. Let's start with the good news: Starting Oct. TPG has the first look at big changes Southwest is making to its Rapid Rewards program - one positive and one negative - as well as announcing a minor change to its same-day standby policies.
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