Back in August, Southwest Airlines introduced the ability to convert vouchers into Rapid Rewards points. This is a reminder that today is the last day to do so — if you have any remaining Southwest vouchers, you’ll have to make a decision today.
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Wow, giving close to full value is pretty fair by Southwest. Not a bad deal if you want use the ticket for someone else.
Converting to points has one other BIG advantage. If you book far ahead like I do, you can cancel anytime. If booked with points all the points simply return to your account. If any portion was paid with travel funds the refund adds to the travel funds total, but retains the original expiry date of the original travel funds. So much less time to use them. Travel funds expiry dates are based upon when you bought the tickets and not the actual travel date and normally expire in 1 year from the original booking date.
The only problem is possible devaluation. I'll not convert mine since I have no problem using the fund. But I'll do the conversion for my mom and my kid since they are less frequent travelers.
Does converting the voucher to travel funds count towards your A-List target? I can get the required 35K to be A-list if I convert my $480 voucher...anyone know if this would count?
Does this logic make sense? As you indicated, when you redeem your travel funds towards a ticket you’ll still earn Rapid Rewards points, as if you paid cash for the ticket. So if you bought a $200 ticket with Travel Funds, you should earn about 14,400 points. Now you would have that ticket and STILL HAVE 14,400 points earned for buying that ticket with cash?
My daughter who is 14 had a school trip cancelled and the funds converted to voucher for $300. My daughter will never use this, is there a way to book a family trip and use that $300 for the whole thing. I paid the money for the initial ticket and I really do not want to be out that money.
@Kristen, if you convert the $300 to southwest points you will be able to use the points to book flights for anyone. If you keep it as $300 voucher, only your daughter can use the funds.
@Kristen:
You can use a Southwest LUV voucher to book for anyone. It is fully transferable.
I missed the deadline December 15, 2020. I was not aware of this option to convert the credits to points.
I don't see the options today for me to convert to points.
At this moment don't have no plans for any trips. If I know, I would converted. Now it looks like I will loose my credits.
Any way that I could still do this?