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Old Jun 22, 2023, 8:11 pm
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Willing to share Companion Pass
Greetings,

I love to travel, yet it usually solo. To avoid my Companion pass to go to waste, I'd like to possibly book with someone. I fly out of JFK and willing to go to LAX, LAS, or ONT. Other possibilities MAY be Missouri, Kansas City, New Mexico or Wisconsin ( states I've never traveled to). The later would be more so a mileage run type of thing.

If interested, let's discuss.
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Old Jun 23, 2023, 3:16 pm
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FYI, you can use your companion pass "for yourself" by booking the companion as an "extra seat" for yourself just as if you were a "passenger of size". On the passenger info, put in your first name and then for last name, input your last name followed by "EXTRASEAT". Even if you have a DL Reserve AmEx companion pass good for F/J, this method would allow you to book a Y seat and save on the cost of having to buy F while still getting the extra space.
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Old Jun 23, 2023, 4:06 pm
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Originally Posted by ATOBTTR
Even if you have a DL Reserve AmEx companion pass good for F/J, this method would allow you to book a Y seat and save on the cost of having to buy F while still getting the extra space.
Could someone do this with an F seat and then start a series of FT rants about some seat going out empty? 😝
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Old Jun 23, 2023, 5:40 pm
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Originally Posted by emma dog
Could someone do this with an F seat and then start a series of FT rants about some seat going out empty? 😝
Id pay to see this.

P.S. Post number 5,000. Wow only took 15 years.
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Old Jun 26, 2023, 3:55 pm
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That "extra seat" may be considered a no show and boom, seat gone down the drain. So not a good Idea at all!
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Old Jun 26, 2023, 4:42 pm
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Originally Posted by Only1Knique
That "extra seat" may be considered a no show and boom, seat gone down the drain. So not a good Idea at all!
No, that’s actually how extra seats are booked. It’s a legitimate thing.
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Old Jun 26, 2023, 4:43 pm
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Originally Posted by DLHubber
No, that’s actually how extra seats are booked. It’s a legitimate thing.
Yessir. If you call and have Delta do it, thats EXACTLY how they are gonna do it anyway.
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Old Jun 27, 2023, 9:14 am
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Originally Posted by Only1Knique
That "extra seat" may be considered a no show and boom, seat gone down the drain. So not a good Idea at all!
There's an established process for booking an extra seat (despite "coach" in the thread title it can be done for F as well): Buying 2 coach seats for one person / EXST on Delta (Consolidated Threads)
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Old Jun 27, 2023, 9:35 am
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Originally Posted by Only1Knique
That "extra seat" may be considered a no show and boom, seat gone down the drain. So not a good Idea at all!
When you check-in, you check-in for both tickets on the reservation and ensure both your boarding and the boarding pass for "YOU-EXTRA SEAT" are scanned and then there's no "no show".
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Old Jun 27, 2023, 9:55 am
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Thats quite interesting about the companion cert being used for an extra seat. Wish I knew or thought of that last year, since I had a couple that expired... and would've loved to book this and get the middle next to me empty in C+.
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Old Jun 27, 2023, 3:55 pm
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Originally Posted by ATOBTTR
When you check-in, you check-in for both tickets on the reservation and ensure both your boarding and the boarding pass for "YOU-EXTRA SEAT" are scanned and then there's no "no show".

So when I am booking this, it asked me to provide a sky miles number for the "extra seat". do I put my number down twice?
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Old Jun 27, 2023, 4:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Only1Knique
So when I am booking this, it asked me to provide a sky miles number for the "extra seat". do I put my number down twice?
You don’t have to put a Skymiles # in for a passenger. Plenty of people fly every day who aren’t enrolled in an FF program.
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Old Jun 27, 2023, 6:47 pm
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Well, if you have status and want to get upgraded you'd need a number for the extra seat right?
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Old Jun 28, 2023, 5:03 am
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I can't believe I never knew or thought of this...
I don't fly a lot of domestic, so I rarely use my certs but still.
Love it.

eta: For upgrade purposes - does your companion have to be on the same PNR? Can you split them as long as you stay on the same itinerary?
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Old Jun 28, 2023, 10:04 am
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Originally Posted by remyontheroad
I can't believe I never knew or thought of this...
I don't fly a lot of domestic, so I rarely use my certs but still.
Love it.

eta: For upgrade purposes - does your companion have to be on the same PNR? Can you split them as long as you stay on the same itinerary?
I don't believe you can split companion tickets.
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