<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Horsefeathers @ Oct 24 2007, 09:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
So I&#39;m looking at using one of my Buddy passes to bring a couple of friends over from the other coast, and if I&#39;m not mistaken, it&#39;s going to cost almost as much as a regular ticket! One of which was my &#39;registered travel companion&#39; and the other would be her daughter - am I reading the cost right? I thought we got so many allotments a year before it started to rack up the cost?[/b]
If NW is the same as AA; there is a service charge (mileage based); plus, taxes, charged to all of our 24 annual buddy passes. With AA, the registered companion has a lower service charge (same as employee&#39;s service fee) and the same boarding priority as an employee - where the other "buddies" get a lower boarding priority and do pay a higher service charge. Although, given that it&#39;s low travel season right now (so lower fare classes are wide-open), I would guess that, yes, your service charges for buddy passes, plus taxes, might be very close to the cost of a revenue ticket.

On AA - Registered Companions / Employees - service charge + tax SAN-ORD-MSP (ONE-WAY) :
$26 / $49-First

Other buddy passes: $112 (ONE-WAY)...yikes!

If it were me, I would non-rev your reg. companion; have the others buy tickets.

Hopefully, someone from NW will reply here, too.

-L

ETA: Just re-read your post; I guess you don&#39;t want to non-rev mom and have a paid ticket for her daughter! Good luck!