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Update: Registration was required by September 9, 2021. If you registered by then, travel must be completed by November 18, 2021 to earn a free Companion Pass.
Southwest Airlines is offering a fantastic promotion to earn a free Companion Pass for two months. All you need to do is register for the promotion and take one round-trip flight (or two one-way flights) before November 18. However, you only have until midnight on September 9 to book your flights to earn this buy-one-get-one-free pass. So, jump on this promotion quickly if you're planning to travel by November 18!
How to Earn the Southwest Promotional Companion Pass
- Register for this promotion before booking
- Book flights on Southwest Airlines before September 9, 2021
- Must fly one round-trip flight or two one-way flights
- Travel dates must be between September 7 and November 18, 2021
- Receive a Companion Pass valid between January 6, 2022 and February 28, 2022
Key Terms to Keep in Mind
- You must book your flights directly with Southwest Airlines
- Provide your Rapid Rewards account number at the time of booking
- Charter flights, group travel, Southwest Vacations® Packages and reservations made using Rapid Rewards points do not qualify for this promotion
- Changes to your itinerary will cancel the Companion Pass
- You may change your designated companion up to three times while you have the Companion Pass
If you plan to earn the full Southwest Companion Pass in 2022, beware of any changes that you make to the promotional Companion Pass. You can only change your Companion Pass companion three times per calendar year. And any changes to your designated companion on this promotional Companion Pass will be subtracted from the three allowed changes you get with your 2022 pass.
Our Take
As far as we're concerned, this is a fantastic deal. This promotional Companion Pass enables you to take one family member or friend with you for free between January 6 and February 28, 2022. You will only need to pay the taxes and fees (minimally $5.60 one-way).
By just flying two flights in the next 8 weeks, you unlock unlimited BOGO for almost two months. So, definitely take advantage of this offer if you have a trip you can book (or rebook) in the next three days. Even better, you can utilize Southwest's ongoing promotion of fares as low as $49. Just make sure to fly by November 18 to qualify for this promotion.
If you already have a flight booked for the promotional period, remember that Southwest has no cancellation fees. So, you can cancel your existing reservation, register for this promotion, and then rebook your flights.
Are you taking advantage of this amazing offer?
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very helpful post- thank you!
Great deal, I was able to book it
The above says, “Changes to your itinerary will cancel the Companion Pass” while the SW terms state that it “may eliminate qualification for this promotion.” Do we know which is accurate? I don’t have any experience with SW promotions. I was rushing to beat the deadline and inadvertently booked the same leg of my trip twice instead of one each TO and FROM. Called immediately but there’s a 2 hour + wait. I went on and changed one of the reservations (at a higher cost. 🙁 ) The change occurred AFTER the deadline passed but the original confirmation was right at the deadline. I ask because I booked the flight at this time specifically to get the promotion. If I’m not going to get it, I’d rather take the trip another time.
Hi Shelly, I wish I had a confident answer for you. I would guess that you could probably convince someone at SW to honor the promotion in light of the nature of the change you made. But that could be time consuming. If you decide to take the flights, I’d love to know whether you encounter a hassle with the promotional CP. Please keep us posted.
Was able to find $49 nonstop fares to go along with this promotion right before midnight. Too bad Southwest pulled out of Newark so will have to trek to LGA instead.
Wish we were allowed to use points to book the initial travel with
Thanks for this, will reach my companion pass sooner
Great consolation for people that are over 5/24 and cannot get the companion pass the usual way.
Nice offer, for those who can use it.
I did register because you never know. However this seems a really short notice promotion. I know I do not have anything planned for travel. I am assuming SW is trying to keep ridership up before the holiday period. It’s awesome if you’ll be traveling. Plus, it gets some people trying out the pass and seeing that maybe it’ll benefit them a lot and get their credit card and try to get the pass for the next year.
Nice find. Will definitely sign up.
Easy way to get a companion pass with only one round trip flight!
Seems like a great deal.
Assuming booking a revenue ticket, does the companion earn miles too?
Unfortunately, no. Southwest says, “The Member who has Companion Pass will earn points on a revenue ticket; however, the designated Companion will not.” (source: FAQ)
Pretty big give away for Southwest. Millions have to be flying during that time period.
Guau! Excelent promotion !
Glad to know about such a great oportunity
Thanks!!
GP
Nice promotion if you are planning on purchasing a SW ticket.
So if I have a reservation already, need to cancel, register. And rebook. Good even if using SWA points to travel?
If I get this, can I still apply for a card in Jan and get a CP with welcome bonus + spend in 2022?
You need to pay cash for the flights for them to qualify to earn this promotional Companion Pass. T&C read “A qualifying one-way flight for this promotion is a one-way revenue flight on Southwest Airlines”
But yes, you can still earn the “regular” Companion Pass in early 2022 even if you have this promotional Companion Pass.
This is certainly tempting to make a mattress run just to get the companion pass. I just wish that covid will not be with us any longer by the time 2022 arrives.
It will be with us I think but we will learn to live with it. I’m personally crossing my fingers for minimal travel disruptions in 2022.
Just live your life in the next couple of years as if the world were in a serious flu season.
Giving Covid advice is delicate business. You usually don’t know the personal risk profile of who you’re talking to, especially online. Put the unfortuante politics aside, you don’t know if you’re talking to someone who’s immunocompromised themselves, living with elderly parents, lacking access to vaccines, etc. For some time, risk calculations are going to be very personal.
My P2 has the companion pass expiring the end of 2021. If Southwest does not extend companion pass for those who earned it in 2020, this will be a good way to extend it a few months. One thing in the fine print, it looks like you will not be able to add the companion until January 6 2022.
That’s correct. We saw that last year when Southwest offered this promotion. You have to wait until the CP is valid before you can add a companion. Thankfully you can still book the original flight now and then just add the companion later.
Yeah, it looks like it’s valid for only a month and a half. 🙁
Registered. Sweet deal! I don’t fly WN too often but this promo is going to work out well for me. I’ll only be able to take advantage of the companion pass one time but that’s still saving me money.
This shows the big effort that airlines are making to recover lost customers during the covid. chears for that
Is there any benefit if I already have a companion pass? ie.., can I take 2 companions on a single flight??
I don’t think so… but I’d be fascinated to hear if you can pull it off!
Pretty sure you can only have it, or not have it. There’s no having two passes.
Excellent promotion, I will fly Southwest the next week so I will register me inmediately, thanks
My round trip fares are more than 3 times the cost from Southwest’s 50th Aniv sale a few months ago. Not going to rebook for that increase in cost.
The companion pass is an amazing deal for flyers like me who take a lot of short flights! Booking companion flights is easy and can be done through the app. Southwest has great incentives.
This is a fantastic promotion, it will be interesting to see if any other airlines come up with some good promotions. Good deals will for sure encourage people to start travelling again
Hopefully this “buy one get one free” offer will increase patronage rapidly. Let’s hope that the pandemic will not return during the upcoming winter season.
Southwest bringing a strong promotion. Wish I had a need/desire to fly right now.
There are really some great flying deals out there now but not sure I am ready o travel due to CVD19.
Any idea why they extended it (although just for 1 day?) Are people not hopping on this amazing deal? Things like this makes me weary.
Well, they are smart. This does make me want to try out SW. Right now? No. I can see that a lot of people will take advantage of this offer. I know that I would jump on this if I had plans to go anywhere on a plane. Giving people a test of what they could have is a good idea because then they’ll crave that new thing. I wonder if they’ll do this again if they see a benefit to it?
This is a really attractive promo and kudos to SW for coming up with something like that. Hopefully this should kick the bit 3’s into offering something more substantial.
What one does, the others often follow. Fingers crossed.
These promotions are getting better and better!
This is a very good opportunity if you are going to book a SW flight in next days.
I’m sure this will benefit some. The window is to narrow so won’t be one of them. ?
That’s a fantastic deal if you have SW flights on the horizon!
Wow! Thanks for the head’s up on this one. That’s a fantastic deal if you have SW flights on the horizon.
This is how you do promotions!
Definitely! A real incentive, and not long to wait.