[Updated]
Most of us are familiar with the Southwest Companion Pass. Briefly, if you accumulate 110,000 Southwest points you can choose one person to travel with you for free for one year. It’s actually possible to get the companion pass for almost two years. This is because you get it until the end of the current calendar year and the next calendar year. This means that if you earn it in January of 2016, you’d get the companion pass until December of 2017. For more info see Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Southwest Companion Pass.
One added benefit is that the Companion Pass allows us to change your companion in middle. You can change your designated companion up to three times. The way this always been known previously was that you got 3 changes total across the entire Companion Pass.
The terms now indicate that you can change your companion 3 times per calendar year. Here’s what the terms look like:
Apparently, they’ve updated the terms to base the companion change on the calendar year. If you get your Companion Pass in January 2016, you can change three times in 2016 and then another 3 times in 2017. Total of 6 changes possible.
[Here’s the exact language of the old terms: “the Member may change his/her designated Companion and request issuance of a new Companion Pass up to three (3) times within the validity period of the Pass”.]
Thanks to my friend Mastermind85 who tipped me off about this. He heard this from a few Southwest reps and then we found this language has been updated in the terms as well.
