Good morning everyone, I am on a bit of a Southwest Airlines kick lately.  Luckily (or unluckily), this is my last Southwest Airlines post of the year.  In the last few days, I wrote the following Southwest Airlines blog posts:

• How Long Does the Southwest Airlines Companion Pass Take to Post After Your First Purchase?
• How to Cancel 1 Passenger on a Multi-Passenger Southwest Airlines Reservation
• How to Add Your Southwest Airlines Companion to an Existing Reservation

In today’s post, I will show you how to find out when your Southwest Airlines travel funds expire before you cancel your Southwest Airlines reservation.  You might be wondering why you would ever want to do this, so let me give you an example.  Let’s say you have travel funds that expire on April 20, 2018 (from a previously cancelled Southwest Airlines reservation), but you already have a Southwest Airlines reservation for April 13, 2018.  Wouldn’t it be great to see when the travel funds linked to your April 13 reservation expire so you could decide if you are better off cancelling your April 13 reservation and rebooking the same exact flight with the Southwest Airlines travel funds that expire on April 20?  You could then use the travel funds from the original April 13 reservation for another Southwest Airlines flight in the future.  In a sense, you are swapping travel funds that expire far in the future with travel funds that expire sooner.  Remember, if you do not use travel funds before their expiration date, they become worthless, so it is always good to use your travel funds before they expire worthlessly.  Also remember that travel funds can only be used for the passenger who they were originally booked for, so you cannot gift travel funds to others.

To get started, click the FLIGHT | HOTEL | CAR top navigation link and then click the Change Flight link.

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