Agreed, there are many benefits to buying one-way tickets with Southwest. The main downside seems to be ease of accommodation in irregular operations but the agent should still be able to help you with separate one-ways, it may take some explaining. But there are many benefits: earn your rewards faster instead of waiting to end of trip easier to change online through self service where a RT may require a phone call in some cases exposure to an expiration as you mentioned use points and cash on the same trip to separate it by legs - only have a few points? Use them only on one leg use more travel funds and vouchers instead of limit of three methods of payment - separate one-ways in effect makes it six methods for the same round trip Buy EBCI only for the desired leg - you can do this but have to call. mixing co-terminal airports MDW / ORD for instance, leave from one and come back to the other. use an expiring travel fund that would otherwise expire mid-trip Lots of good reasons to use one-ways.
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07-30-2021
06:17 PM
Agree in general that polices are reasonable, much better than other airlines. So it's hard to be critical. I just wrote a note about how they combine new money & old money toward the lessor time limit-&something i didn't know before I did it. It probably wouldn't help your situation since you got the full year with the whole amount of funds used. I had objected to when $300 was combined in a ticket with the $100 and when the trip was changed, also for a medical event, the $300 combined with the old ticket added to the amount that expired in weeks.
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