You’ve finished earning all the qualifying points you need to earn Southwest Companion Pass. Congrats! Now, when will it show up in your account so you can use it to fly 1 person free with you on as many flights as you want? Lyn has the answer in this 2-minute video.

Please note, Southwest updated the number of points required to earn the Southwest Companion Pass from 125,000 to 135,000 as of January 1, 2023, though that does not affect the simple way we teach earning and always maintaining the pass.

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  • Lyn Mettler is a longtime travel writer for US News & World Report, USA Today 10Best and The TODAY Show who created Families Fly Free, a program that teaches families her simple system to use travel rewards to fly for free. She is one of the industry's foremost experts on collecting and using travel rewards with her expertise featured in major media outlets and on podcasts, television and radio.

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