Long time reader, first time poster...
So the wife and I both have Southwest Companion Passes - and each of us have one of our children as our companions. We have a family trip booked right after Christmas through New Years and I fully expect those flights to be sold out at some point in the near future. The wife and I would like to take a long weekend trip for just the two of us the weekend before Thanksgiving - also expensive points tickets. So WN allows you to change out your companion 3 times over the life of the CP. What are my options if I want to (temporarily) change my CP from child over to wife for our November trip (and then change it back to child before the December trip)? I assume I cannot hold a CP ticket for my child for the December trip while my wife is my companion? I could hold a ticket for my child with points, but I'm trying to avoid that route as it would require me transferring 50k UR points over to WN (though no doubt we'll eventually use them). I could gamble that there will be at least one seat left on the December trip flights or that a (kindly) WN agent would do an override and put our child on the flights with the rest of us.
Just trying to see if there are any strategies that I haven't thought of?
So the wife and I both have Southwest Companion Passes - and each of us have one of our children as our companions. We have a family trip booked right after Christmas through New Years and I fully expect those flights to be sold out at some point in the near future. The wife and I would like to take a long weekend trip for just the two of us the weekend before Thanksgiving - also expensive points tickets. So WN allows you to change out your companion 3 times over the life of the CP. What are my options if I want to (temporarily) change my CP from child over to wife for our November trip (and then change it back to child before the December trip)? I assume I cannot hold a CP ticket for my child for the December trip while my wife is my companion? I could hold a ticket for my child with points, but I'm trying to avoid that route as it would require me transferring 50k UR points over to WN (though no doubt we'll eventually use them). I could gamble that there will be at least one seat left on the December trip flights or that a (kindly) WN agent would do an override and put our child on the flights with the rest of us.
Just trying to see if there are any strategies that I haven't thought of?
