Southwest Rapid Rewards - Companion pass- pick up companion on connection?

I'm about to use my companion pass for the first time. My companion lives in a different city than I. I will connect through her city en route to the final destination. Can i depart from LIT connect in DFW (pick her up as my companion- check in with her airside) and then finish my travel to LAS?

Does the companion have to be at the initial departure city, or can i meet her en route at a connection?

I'm about to use my companion pass for the first time. My companion lives in a different city than I. I will connect through her city en route to the final destination. Can i depart from LIT connect in DFW (pick her up as my companion- check in with her airside) and then finish my travel to LAS?

Does the companion have to be at the initial departure city, or can i meet her en route at a connection?

1. I hope you mean DAL as WN does not fly into DFW.

2. If you have single ticket with a DAL connection your companion must fly the entire flight of both legs.

3. You can book your flight as two one ways (OW's) and book your companion on the second of the two flights. If you check a bag you will need to get it and recheck.

If you check a bag you will need to get it and recheck.

Not necessarily. It'll take a little extra work for the counter person to do this (you can't do it at a kiosk--you need to do it at with a "real" counter person--same way you'd process a UM etc).

Just tell them you have two PNRs and need to check a bag through to the final destination. They'll have to build a standby leg on the first PNR to your final destination, check the bag, then delete it. Takes about 2-3 minutes and make sure they delete the standby leg. This is how they used to check bags to DAL before you could book a ticket from a non-Wright state.

As a bonus: any station can print a BP for a flight originating at any other station on a different PNR: for example DAL-ABQ on one PNR and ABQ-OAK on the other--you can have an agent print your ABQ-OAK BP in DAL.

Not necessarily. It'll take a little extra work for the counter person to do this (you can't do it at a kiosk--you need to do it at with a "real" counter person--same way you'd process a UM etc).

Just tell them you have two PNRs and need to check a bag through to the final destination. They'll have to build a standby leg on the first PNR to your final destination, check the bag, then delete it. Takes about 2-3 minutes and make sure they delete the standby leg. This is how they used to check bags to DAL before you could book a ticket from a non-Wright state.

As a bonus: any station can print a BP for a flight originating at any other station on a different PNR: for example DAL-ABQ on one PNR and ABQ-OAK on the other--you can have an agent print your ABQ-OAK BP in DAL.

I was concerned that building any sort of alternate routing to create the bag connection might flag the CP PRN for deletion.