It is wonderful to read prospective solutions. In my experience (with Budget, especially) the car agencies will only push so far, and the receiving airline program - not just Southwest - simply cannot see what they say hasn't reached them from the car agency. The better the leverage of the partner promotion, the looser the connections become (as we FTers overwhelm them, it would seem). I often used to say, in response to this type of thread, "Never the twain shall meet". But after looong experience, I now say that it can take two years. It has.