The #1 Reason Why I Love Flying on Southwest Points

                              

Even with the meltdown over the holiday by Southwest Airlines, I will continue to fly them. Why? Well, there are a number of reasons:

• The Southwest Companion pass 
• Two checked bags for FREE 
• No fuel charges 
• Points are easy to earn 

But my #1 reason is the fact that if you book on points, you can change your flight without any penalty and you may even get points back! 

The #1 Reason Why I Love Flying on Southwest Points 

Confused? Let me explain. You book a flight on Southwest using points. If you don't have enough points, open a Southwest credit card and earn them or even buy them. But don't pay cash for your ticket because then you may get stuck with a credit voucher, yuck! 

If you pay with points and make a change or cancel, the points just return to your account. Easy! 

That's a great perk right there, but wait there's more. 

The #1 Reason Why I Love Flying on Southwest Points 

Once you book a flight, anytime Southwest has a sale or even on random Tuesday or Wednesday, use the change flight option to see if the number of points for that flight has dropped. If it has, rebook the flight and you get the difference returned to your account. 

Let me show you how this works. 

Log into your account, click on trips and click on change flight. 

Check the flight that you want to change. Don't make any updates to the selected flight and click on explore options. 

Then you will see all the flights for that day, find the one that you are already booked on. If you see a + sign, that means it now costs MORE points to book, but if you see a - sign that means it now costs LESS points to book. 

If you see that it costs LESS now than it did when you originally booked, click on the flight, review changes and purchase. 

The points will return to your account immediately. You can do this as many times as you want up until your flight departs. 

The #1 Reason Why I Love Flying on Southwest Points 

If you have a companion booked on the flight with you, you will need to cancel the companion's flight BEFORE you make the change. 

Pretty sweet! 

If you do not have a Southwest credit card yet, please use my referral link. The current offer is 50,000 bonus miles for a $3,000 minimum spend for each of the personal cards. You can check out which card I prefer here.