Register to earn a two month companion certificate, where a friend flies free whenever you do (whether paying cash or points for your own ticket) on Southwest Airlines.
Register and book by by Thursday, February 5 for travel by March 31, and one roundtrip or two one-ways earns the Companion Pass that wll be valid August 10 – October 7, 2026 (so beginning after summer peak).
- Already-booked tickets don’t count. You can cancel and rebook to make them count.
- You’ll be able to change your designated companion up to three times during the Companion Pass validity period. (Note though that this is the same as your annual limit, so if you earn a year-long Companion Pass later you’re using this year’s changes for that, too.)
I currently have a promotional companion pass earned the last time they ran this (they do it every few months, it seems). I had to book a family trip on Southwest anyway – Southwest offers 41% of the seats out of my home airport – and my wife and I each earned companion passes and our kids are our companions. I can take my one year old as a lap infant but I’ll take the free seat instead. And by booking my wife and I on one record, and adding our companion to each of us, we all get the seating and bag benefits of my A-List status.
Southwest used to say that running promotions didn’t mean business was down, because they did not sell their tickets through online travel agency sites and had to do marketing to attract customers to their website. But they do now distribute fares through third parties. Make of that what you will.
Better than nothing, but pretty niche
La Compagnie’s ‘Valentine’s Day Deal’ is now live, too, but the availability for NCE is not nice. *wink*