Originally Posted by
alohasunshine
Basically, I purchased a lot of discounted SW gift credit at Costco (when they sold SW gift cards), and with the upcoming policy changes, it's going to be too hard to use these flight credits efficiently and I'm having buyer's remorse for buying gift cards in the first place, after the rug was pulled out from under all of us with these policy changes.
As others are saying, you should just burn off the credits yourself.
I do not understand why you don't want to do that. Do you want to move business to other airlines ASAP to try to earn some kind of status with those other airlines? What about your status with Southwest?
You can reserve the higher fare class fares and still have benefits/flexibility similar to today. I suspect you'd come out ahead doing that vs. selling these at a discount (and risking some sort of terms violation from Southwest).
Not many people are looking forward to the changes- there are some fans for assigned seating, but really a pretty small group of fans even for that.
It is against Southwest terms of service to sell transferable flight credits. It is buried in the code of carriage.
Also if you go forward with this plan to "sell" your flight credits, how do you plan to get compensated for these flight credits you will be selling? You are aware that if someone transfers you more than $600 through many of these money transfer platforms, and codes the transfer as being for "goods or services," that you'll be receiving a 1099 tax form right? And you'll have to pay tax on that income. Another thing to factor in here.