Originally Posted by
ave1024
What benefit are you missing out on? What you are saying doesn't make sense. You can't miss out on a benefit that doesn't exist, what FF benefit is this that HE has?
I too have a companion and my companion is my 3 year old. I am not A+ since I book all my flights on points due to very high business CC spending, but it's possible I am just as much as a FF as you are minus the status. There have been times when I have received an A boarding pass at T-24 check in, probably due to somebody with EBCI cancelling at last minute. My son received a B. I could have tried to take him with me in the A group but I boarded between A and B group. I don't see what the big deal is. What you should be doing is campaigning to SW to allow companions to check in with the paid passenger. I would benefit by this as well, but since they don't allow this I play by the rules.
My thought process is this; as of now, I book my son as a lap infant. As a lap infant, he has no boarding number so he boards with me at my number. Once I have the companion pass, it'd be silly to let it go to waste by not using it on him. But by using it, he will then get his own ticket/boarding number, which by the rules, means we should board with his number or between A/B. Hence, I am loosing the benefit of both of us boarding at my number by using the companion pass.
Any yeah, I take every chance I get to tell WN that companions booked on same reservation as A+ members should have sequential boarding numbers as a benefit. A+ benefits are already light as it is compared to A-List, but that is for another thread.