If you have a traveling partner and live where Southwest has service, you could consider getting a Southwest business and personal card and then dumping spend on them in December to start qualification for a Companion Pass that could possibly run through Dec 2026. There are tricks to maximize the duration of this 2 for 1 benefit, but I am guessing you might be able to make this work with your level of spend. Here is a link to a thread which discusses some of this.