Originally Posted by
NoStressHere
If I read it right, no problem. Keep in mind, you can NOT two different companion tickets alive at the same time. Pretty sure that once you drop wife and add daughter as companion, ticket for wife goes away.
Not sure why you would WAIT to do the switch. Do it now and book daughter now. Once onboard (or maybe after landing), add wife back and book her.
Only possible downside is that there are no seats left for wife. But based on many stories of folks (like me) that forget to add companion and find a flight is sold out.. .keep checking and a seat opens up. You could also buy a paid ticket for wife now (I would do points) and then cancel when you get her added as companion.
This seems like a wise way to go -- my initial reason for waiting till closer to the flight was to be as sure as possible there would be open seats to be able to add my wife as companion for the homebound flight. But buying a ticket to cover her in the interim is a wise idea, and the flight home is a good bit cheaper than the flight back, so this is a financially wise move too.
One follow-up question to this: I could book the backup ticket for my wife on points, but my daughter's ticket is WGA+, so it's also possible to use some of that to cover wife's ticket. If I do that, do we still hold onto the balance? I.e., if daughter's ticket is $200 and wife's is $100, do we hold onto the remaining $100 as with a regular credit? And is it transferable to
another person? For example could I use $100 of the daughter's fare now for my wife and, say, the remaining $100 for myself (or whoever) down the line? Or is the transferability of the plus in WGA+ a one-time-only thing?...