Southwest Airlines Travel gurus: I am on flight A, but want to switch to earlier flight B via standby to avoid the much higher fare. Can I purchase a refundable fare for flight B under another name then cancel last second to guarantee an empty seat? I have status so I can do standby at no cost if there are open seats

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If you really want to do this I’d suggest booking the travel under your SO or family members name

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Can’t weigh in on if this would work but you do have an underlying assumption that the number of tickets sold <= the number of seats on the plane, which is not always the case. Maybe WN doesn’t overbook their flights - not sure, I try to avoid them.

This better be personal travel if you’re using Southwest.

Better than any other airline and they go to Mexico and all the great islands. Wife flies free when I fly too.

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The overbooking issue mentioned above is real. Also, IME, Southwest pretty aggressively looks for obviously duplicate reservations and cancels one of them.

This is accurate - I tried booking a backup reservation in case I wasn’t able to make my earlier flight and they outright cancelled the flight within 24 hrs of me booking the ticket

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Aren’t there rules stating you can’t cancel for a refund if you book within 24 hours of the flight?

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