Originally Posted by RamAir
These are free? I know with TWA and then AA (only for a brief time) we had a fee to be paid for these. It ended up being like half the rt ticket price on transcon.
No, they're not free. Buddy pass holders must purchase a yield fare. It is something like 1 or 2 cents per mile plus taxes. I think it's 2 cents continental US (and maybe Canada) and 1 cent per mile if you go over water. Hence, it's not much more to fly to HNL than to LAX from the East Coast.
For DL, the yield fare on an ATL-LAX is something like $75 each way. That's especially good if you're going last-minute.