Originally Posted by
clover777
I'm a newbie to flyertalk forum and i don't know where to post this question, but it has something to do with Southwest airline anyway. First thing to say,I'm an international student so i did not know much about US's airline policies. So I bought the wanna get away ticket for my relative (with my own credit card), but he cancelled it and now i am desperately trying to find a way to get my money back. It sucks that even though i paid for the ticket, the only one who gets to use the fund is my relative, not me, and under some circumstances i cannot ask him to give the money back to me (><). Is there any way for me to use his travel credit? I asked SW's customer service and seems like the credit can ONLY be used to buy travel tickets under that passenger's name, not gift card or voucher. I think i read somewhere that you can buy plane ticket from someone else, but i'm not so sure if that can be applied to SW's strict policies over Passenger's name. Does anyone know what else can you do with Southwest credit? Has anyone been under the same situation and what did you do?
Welcome to flyertalk,
clover777!
My suggestion would start by saying that if I was ever in the same room with that relative, it would be a very tense few minutes, at least at the beginning.
You have found your worst case: you lose ~$100 in value. Actually that is a pretty cheap life lesson as they go. Some of mine have gone well into the thousands. In my house we call it paying the stupid tax. But, that is just us.
As I am old, I can offer the following advice, it is a perk of old man world. However, free advice is often worth exactly what you pay for it, but that will not stop me. When I give something to someone, I only do so if I do not want it to be mine anymore. Whether they use it or not may rile me, but I remind myself that I gave it away, and by doing such I transferred the right of use (or non-use) to the recipient. It keeps me from giving a lot of stuff away but it also frees me from worrying about it for one moment after it is gone.