Help...Southwest 60K miles expired...

[guoguo914]

Just found out when logging in trying to use the miles to book a ticket.

According to Dan, http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/50750, the car rental receipt trick worked for AA and UA. Does it work with Southwest as well?

Thanks!

[ar]

Just found out when logging in trying to use the miles to book a ticket.

According to Dan, http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/50750, the car rental receipt trick worked for AA and UA. Does it work with Southwest as well?

Thanks!

Yes it does. I had it reinstated like that

[guoguo914]

Yes it does. I had it reinstated like that

Thanks! How did you do it? I called customer relations but they denied it outright...

[AsherO]

Thanks! How did you do it? I called customer relations but they denied it outright...

Crediting a backdated car rental (from before the expiration date) to Southwest will probably reinstate your account, because you'll have activity on a date before the expiration (even if it posts afterwards). No need to call and ask questions, and draw unneeded attention to what you're doing.

[theyankel]

Thanks! How did you do it? I called customer relations but they denied it outright...

u need to contact car rental company and ask them to credit to southwest. dont call southwest and raise red flags

[Elikip]

Anyone who's had their southwest points reinstated retroactively, will you please share which car rental in particular worked for you? I tried avis but no go ... 66k points in the line for me, tia.

[Freddie]

Crediting a backdated car rental (from before the expiration date) to Southwest will probably reinstate your account, because you'll have activity on a date before the expiration (even if it posts afterwards). No need to call and ask questions, and draw unneeded attention to what you're doing.

u need to contact car rental company and ask them to credit to southwest. dont call southwest and raise red flags

+1 Do not call Southwest. It's an automated system. It will work itself out. Just call the car rental company. You need a receipt? There's a whole thread for that.

[Elikip]

Anyone who's had their southwest points reinstated retroactively, will you please share which car rental in particular worked for you? I tried avis but no go ... 66k points in the line for me, tia.

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[Dan]

Anyone who's had their southwest points reinstated retroactively, will you please share which car rental in particular worked for you? I tried avis but no go ... 66k points in the line for me, tia.

Please explain what happened.

[Elikip]

Please explain what happened.

Forfeited close to 60k points due to lack of activity in account. Noticed just 2 days after expiration, but hit a wall trying to get them reinstated with Southwest.
Was thrilled to chance upon this thread, realizing I could still recover my points relatively easy, I had an Avis rental in my brother's name, (same last) but Avis refused to post it claiming the name on the receipt/invoice must match the name on the Southwest account.
So I agreed for a trade in the past car rental thread, and had someone credit their Alamo rental to my SW, Alamo stated a 60-90 day posting timeframe, but it's 88 days now and nothing yet.
So I'm wondering, the commentators who reported successful reinstatement after crediting a past rental, which company, specifically,   worked for them?

[PillanSmye]

I had a ton of Philippine Airlines Mabuhah miles set to expire. I rented a car on New Years Eve, drove it around the block and returned it 5 minutes later.

[Dan]

Forfeited close to 60k points due to lack of activity in account. Noticed just 2 days after expiration, but hit a wall trying to get them reinstated with Southwest.
Was thrilled to chance upon this thread, realizing I could still recover my points relatively easy, I had an Avis rental in my brother's name, (same last) but Avis refused to post it claiming the name on the receipt/invoice must match the name on the Southwest account.
So I agreed for a trade in the past car rental thread, and had someone credit their Alamo rental to my SW, Alamo stated a 60-90 day posting timeframe, but it's 88 days now and nothing yet.
So I'm wondering, the commentators who reported successful reinstatement after crediting a past rental, which company, specifically,   worked for them?

Just tell Avis the SW account is in your brother's name.

[yelped]

Just tell Avis the SW account is in your brother's name.

I did that with Alamo and it still didn't show up in his SW account. Alamo sent it over again and said to ask SW why it's not showing up yet. I guess we will wait for OP to update us.

[Dan]

I did that with Alamo and it still didn't show up in his SW account. Alamo sent it over again and said to ask SW why it's not showing up yet. I guess we will wait for OP to update us.

I said Avis (that's who I did it with).

[yelped]

I said Avis (that's who I did it with).

I did budget with a couple other people. They don't ask for name. So far nothing posted yet either..

[mb1]

I submitted a national receipt almost 6 weeks ago.
Still nothing.