There might be some good news regarding expiring Southwest flight credits:
If you haven’t been following, with all the recent changes they changed the policy so that flight credits created after the end of May expire:
- Cancelled Basic fares generate a credit that expires in 6 months (insanity)
- Higher fare credits expire in a year.
Someone in the 10xTravel group posted what might be a hack to turn expiring credits into non-expiring. First off: this is a new tactic AFAIK, but there are already a few other people in the thread reporting it worked for them.
I included some captures from the thread below for reference.
Note: a few people first reported it did NOT work, but they didn’t pay attention to the fact that the booking you make and cancel needs to be a CHOICE PREFERRED fare.
When they tried again using that fare they reported it did indeed work.
Basic rundown from this report, all aspects need to be done as below:
- They booked a CHOICE PREFERRED fare flight using expiring flight credits
- They used a Southwest gift card as a 3rd form of payment
Once they cancelled the Choice Preferred fare (done right away) their credits returned as non-expiring.
One person in the thread said, (without reporting any evidence they tried any of this) that the gift card isn’t required - it is the Choice Preferred booking that causes the non-expiring credit.
See a Positive Liner Data Point on this tactic here.
| That makes logical sense to me, but I find it suspicious that if it were indeed that simple that no one had noticed and reported this before. Guess we’ll have to see, but for that guy: |  |
