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The AAdvantage Business™ program

The new AAdvantage Business™ program rewards eligible companies and their travelers for booking business travel on aa.com and the American app. Whether you manage travel for your company or travel for work, our new business loyalty program helps you earn more, wherever business takes you.

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CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World Elite Mastercard®

Earn 65,000 bonus miles for your business. Plus, each cardmember (primary and employees) earns Loyalty Points toward AAdvantage ® status. Terms apply.

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Add Traveler accounts.

Add other Travel Managers.

Set up ghost cards.

Overview of benefits and functionality

• SWABIZ offers the same everyday low fares as Southwest.com®.
• You’ll get access to exclusive business travel offers.
• You can book on behalf of Travelers, or they can book themselves.
• Store your company ghost card(s) to make booking even easier.
• You won’t find any transaction, set up, or management fees here.
• Duty of care capabilities are a cinch with Traveler tracking reports.
• Robust reporting helps you track expenses, travel funds, and more.

How to add Traveler accounts

Adding additional travel managers to your account.

• In the menu bar, click Travel Settings > Company Profile .
• Click Modify at the top of the page.
• Above the list of your company’s Travel Managers, there will be an option to add additional Travel Managers.

Ghost cards

• A ghost card is a credit card stored in your SWABIZ account that allows registered Travelers and Travel Managers to purchase air travel without revealing the credit card information.
• You can add as many ghost cards as you need and control who can use them.
• In the menu bar, click Payment > Ghost Card Management .
• At the top of the page, there are options to add, assign, view/modify, and generate reports for your ghost cards.
• There are three settings you can apply to a ghost card in relation to a Traveler—not allowed to use, allowed to use, and required to use. You can also select a global setting that requires all Travelers use a ghost card.
• By default, newly added ghost cards are set to “not allowed to use,” and when a new Traveler is added to the account, all ghost cards are set as “not allowed to use” on their account.
• Before Travelers and Travel Managers can use ghost cards, you must first assign the appropriate permission setting to each travel account. Go to Payments > Ghost Card Management > Assign to set permissions.

Including options for cars and hotels

• Access to book hotel and car reservations is automatically turned on for all new SWABIZ accounts. However, you can modify that access if you’d like.
• In the menu bar, click Travel Settings > Travel Policy .
• Here, you’ll have the option to toggle hotel booking functionality on and off. For rental car options, you can toggle that functionality on and off or choose to show specific rental car companies and enter your company’s corporate IDs/rate codes.

Opting-in to receive a copy of your Travelers’ confirmation emails

• Up to four full-access SWABIZ Travel Managers can opt in to receive a copy of all confirmation receipt emails for new bookings, changes, and cancellations.
• In the menu bar, click Travel Manager account . Check the box under Confirmation Receipt Emails to opt in.

Ghost cards help make payment simple and secure.

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• First and second checked bags fly free ® ; 1 free same-day standby 2 .
• No change 3 or cancel 4 fees.
• Exceptional Customer Service and Southwest Hospitality.

1 First and second checked bags. Weight and size limits apply.

2 List for same-day standby via the Southwest app or gate agent. Group bookings and Unaccompanied Minors are not eligible. Government taxes and fees may apply but refunds will be provided. Visit Southwest.com/standby for details.

3 Fare difference may apply.

4 Failure to cancel a reservation at least 10 minutes prior to scheduled departure may result in forfeited travel funds.

Ready to book?

Create your reservation.

like you would on Southwest.com by entering flight information on the home page.

Booking for a registered Traveler?

Start typing their name on the Passenger and Payment page, and options will appear. Once selected, their information will populate.

Booking for a guest?

Manually fill in their name and information on the Passenger and Payment page.

Booking as a Traveler

• When a Traveler logs in to SWABIZ under the Traveler tab with your Company ID and their personal Rapid Rewards number , they can easily book travel for themselves.
• They can create a reservation just like they would on Southwest.com by entering their flight information on the SWABIZ home page.

All about IRNs

• An IRN (internal reference number) allows you to identify the purpose of travel, associate bookings with a cost center, identify a Traveler’s department, and gives you quick access to all bookings and records.
• You can set IRNs to be required for booking travel, or make it optional. Go to Payment > Internal Reference Numbers to change your setting.
• If you do have IRNs in use, you’ll be able to pull reports based on them.

Duty of care capabilities

• SWABIZ offers different duty of care elements through its various reports. In addition to air, hotel, and car reservation information, the SWABIZ (Air) Master Report and Traveler Tracking Report offer a “Day of Travel Contact Info” column that lists the Traveler’s email or phone number.
• Travelers can store their "Day of Travel Contact Info" in their Rapid Rewards (Traveler) account to prepopulate it in the appropriate field within the reservation booking flow, or they or a Travel Manager can add it at the time of booking on the Passenger & Payment Info page prior to confirming the reservation.
• Once the Traveler or Travel Manager has entered this information, it will populate in the report regardless of who created the reservation.

Mobile modifications

• Once a flight is booked on SWABIZ, you and your Travelers will be able to cancel or make changes to a reservation on Southwest mobile and apps.
• Travelers can check in for their flights in Southwest mobile and apps.
• Changes will be done with personal credit cards, not ghost cards.
• Don’t worry—these changes will still show up in SWABIZ reports.

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5 Failure to cancel a reservation at least 10 minutes prior to scheduled departure may result in forfeited travel funds.

6 Where available. Available only on WiFi-enabled aircraft. Limited-time offer.​​

7 Cash + Points bookings will not earn Rapid Rewards points, tier qualifying points for A-List or A-List Preferred status or Companion Pass qualifying points..​​

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Questions about Southwest Business? Contact us or read our FAQs.

Frequently asked questions:.

Q: Where can I find Southwest’s ARC ticketing policies?

A: Southwest’s ARC ticketing policies, as well as the associated Travel Agent Addendum, can be found here: https://www.southwest.com/html/swabiz/gds-policy.html

Q: Will all GDS systems benefit from Southwest full participation?

A: While capabilities will differ between GDS providers, Southwest will make the same content available to Amadeus, Travelport and Sabre GDS’s. You will also now have the benefit of full ticket settlement via ARC.

Q: Who do I contact if I do not have access to Southwest content in the GDS or have questions?

If you have any questions about Southwest content please email [email protected] for more information. Please note that content will only be made available to approved US-based agencies that are ARC accredited.

Q: Will customers outside of US point of sale be given Southwest full GDS access?

A: Southwest bookings can only be ticketed by ARC accredited agencies in the US, with USD currency only. Outside of the US you may access Southwest Airlines content via Southwest.com .

Q: Can an OTA or a Meta Search agency get access to Southwest?

A: OTAs and Meta Search agencies are not being approved by SWA to get content through Travelport GDS nor any other GDS provider. Southwest does not allow any travel agency to openly distribute our content via any online platform directly to consumers.

Q: Will there be fares and/or content available via Southwest directly but not in the GDS?

A: Yes, Southwest will have some “direct fares” that are only available through one of our direct sales channels.

Q: Will EarlyBird® purchases be available in the GDS?

A: If EarlyBird Check-In® is available, it can be purchased in Sabre, Amadeus, and Travelport GDS’s. Reservations booked in all other GDS’s can purchase EarlyBird® on Southwest.com . The travel agency will retain ownership of their GDS issued ticket even if EarlyBird® is purchased directly with Southwest.

Q: Will Southwest send emails for ARC transactions?

A: Southwest will no longer send confirmation emails for GDS issued tickets. You will continue to see emails sent for any transaction that is exchanged, or issued, by Southwest Airlines direct.

Q: What is the process for changing a company’s discount filing or tracking agreement with Southwest?

A: Any change to the way a corporate travel agreement is set up first requires the company reaching out to their Southwest Account Manager. Southwest must make changes to ATPCO fare filings for any applicable discounts, and our Account Manager must update our CRM system to ensure our reporting is not interrupted. More specific information will be shared once the company has engaged their Southwest Account Manager.

Q: Will Mexico destinations be available in the GDS?

A: Yes, as of July 22, 2022, U.S. ARC –accredited point-of-sale travel agencies can book and ticket Mexico itineraries in all GDS’s (Apollo, Worldspan, Galileo, Sabre, and Amadeus).

Q: Can I add a travelers Rapid Rewards frequent flyer number to my GDS reservation?

A: Yes Rapid Reward numbers can be added to your GDS PNR using one of the following formats, please note 20000111222 is an example number only .

• Sabre FFWN2000111222
• Apollo MP*WN2000111222
• Worldspan 3SSRFQTVWNHK/WN20000111222
• Amadeus FFNWN-20000111222

Q: Will we still be able to hold bookings before ticketing?

A: Yes, and part of the change to full participation is that a ticketing deadline will be generated for each booking. The reservation will be held until 11:59PM local time, NEXT DAY (not next business day). Fare rules supersede the ticketing time limit. **Please note that any churned reservations will result in a debit memo**

Q: Will agents be able to add a Rapid Rewards loyalty number in their GDS bookings?

A: Yes. Loyalty numbers in GDS bookings will be handled as with any other carrier. Clients with a Rapid Rewards status such as A-List, A-List Preferred will be recognized and applied in GDS bookings, through the status level in the FQTV line. Please note that GDS reservations will decline an invalid Rapid Rewards number when entered in a reservation. However, name verification is not executed for GDS reservations. If the name is incorrect the Rapid Rewards number will not be attached to the reservation, even though it was entered in the GDS.

Q: How do we book groups with Southwest? Can we claim a PNR?

A: Any Southwest group booking is to be handled by Southwest directly. Southwest will not allow claim PNR in the GDS for booked groups. All group bookings are confirmed and ticketed by Southwest direct.

Q: Can I access/view in the GDS a booking created on Southwest website?

A: No. All bookings completed within a Southwest channel will remain with Southwest and cannot be accessed in the GDS’s

Q: Can I access/view on Southwest’s website a booking created in the GDS?

A: Yes. Any booking done in the GDS can be accessed on the Southwest website or by a Southwest agent.

Q: Can my GDS booking be serviced by Southwest directly?

A: Yes. However, once a GDS booking has been reissued by Southwest, it will then reside with Southwest and will no longer be available in the GDS for future servicing.

Q: Can we have multiple airlines/multiple tickets in a Southwest PNR?

A: Yes. Southwest segments can reside with other airlines in one PNR. Southwest does not allow for interline ticketing, which means that a Southwest ticket can only be issued for Southwest flights. No other carriers can be issued with the Southwest ticket as we do not currently have any interline agreements with other airlines.

Q: Will Southwest flights be available 365 days from the booking date via the GDS?

A: Southwest’s complete flight schedule will be visible in the GDS as they become available. Southwest normally publishes schedules 6-8 months out.

Q: Can I book multiple one-way tickets in the same PNR?

A: Currently Southwest does not allow multiple one-way reservations in one PNR. If a traveler wants to add a leg to an existing reservation you can exchange the current ticket, or book the added space in a new PNR.

Q: Will we be able to apply all forms of payment to issue Southwest tickets?

A: Southwest will enable all forms of payment in the GDS, including cash and check. However, Southwest’s currencies (gift cards, LUV vouchers, Rapid Rewards ® points, residual ticket funds) will not be accepted in the GDS.

Q: Will customers be able to have their bags transferred to other airlines if flights are booked in the same reservation?

A: No, Southwest does not have interline ticketing agreements with other airlines. Customers will need to pick up their bags at the Southwest baggage claim in the connecting city. They will be required to recheck their bags with the other airline.

Q: Will we be able to issue circle trip tickets in the GDS?

A: Yes you can issue circle trip tickets. Please note that you cannot issue separate tickets that are point to point within the circle trip.

Q: What will be the process to exchange/refund/void a Southwest booking?

A: All Southwest bookings created after cutover to ARC settlement can be voided, exchanged, or refunded through the GDS. Any bookings created prior to the ARC settlement migration will need to continue being exchanged or refunded with Southwest direct.

Q: Will agents be able to retain a residual value and issue an MCO for Southwest exchanged bookings?

A: All ARC settled reservations can be exchanged in the GDS, and an MCO issued for any residual value.

Q: Do I always need to issue a residual MCO?

A: Southwest Airlines never charges any fees for ticket changes. All residual MCO’s are expected to be issued by the travel agency in the name of the traveler. Any MCO not issued for $100.00 or more will result in a debit memo.

Q: Can I use a Southwest MCO for another traveler?

A: Southwest Airlines does not allow MCO’s to be used by another traveler. The contract of carriage states that the name on the MCO ticket must be the user of the new ticket issued. Any MCO used to purchase a ticket in another traveler’s name will result in a debit memo.

Q: Can I exchange with a Southwest agent a booking done in my GDS?

A: Yes, Southwest agents can modify any reservation to fly on Southwest. However, once a Southwest agent has exchanged the ticket, any further service request will need to be done by a Southwest agent.

Q: Where can I find information on Southwest Airlines Branded Fares?

A: Southwest Airlines now uses branded fares. Please follow this link to access our Branded Fares information.

Q: Does Southwest Airlines allow unaccompanied minor/ young traveler bookings through the GDS?

A: Please use the following information when booking via the GDS’s.

Not available through GDS

Ticketing travel for Unaccompanied Minors (ages 5-11 traveling alone) in the GDS is not permitted. Call 800-435-9792 or visit: https://www.southwest.com/faq/unaccompanied-minors . Please note, issuing tickets for an Unaccompanied Minor will result in a Debit Memo.

Tickets Young Travelers

Young Travelers (ages 12-17 traveling alone) can be booked through the GDS for US Domestic travel, however, you must call Southwest Airlines at 800-435-9792 to complete necessary travel documents. For more information on Young Traveler please visit: https://www.southwest.com/faq/young-travelers .

Travelers ages 2 – 17 that are traveling with a parent or guardian 18 years of age or older on a separate PNR must add the OSI WN (SWA Locator) of the parent PNR.

Q: Does Southwest Airlines provide a way to track corporate customer revenue that do not have a discount in place?

A: You may now add tour codes for revenue tracking to either the IT field of a ticket, or the OSI field of your PNR. Below are the formats for each.

• Sabre:      W#UN*99112233
• Apollo:        T:$BIT99112233
• Worldspan:   5-IT99112233
• Amadeus:      FT*99112233
• Galileo:       TC99112233
• Sabre:       3OSI WN 99112233
• Apollo:      3OSI WN 99112233
• Amadeus:    OS WN 99112233
• Worldspan:    3OSI WN 99112233
• Galileo:     SI.WN*99112233

Q: Does Southwest Airlines contact customers when flight interruptions occur?

A: Travel agencies can use the following SSR formats to provide Southwest Airlines their customers contact details. Without this information Southwest may not be able to contact our mutual customers when flight interruptions occur.

You will need to input SSR message fields in accordance with the GDS you utilize.

CTCE Customer Email Addresses:

CTCM Customer Mobile Phone Number:

CTCR Customers Refused To Provide Contact Details:

Please contact your GDS helpdesk with specific questions regarding formats.

Guidelines for TMC Transaction Testing with Live Bookings

• • Start date
• • Point of contact
• • Number of transactions
• • Maximum of 10 test bookings
• • PNR’s must be booked 90 days out to avoid blocking inventory close to flight date
• • PNR’s must be cancelled within 24hrs to avoid refundability or ADM concerns

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Travelport/Amadeus

• If you are new to booking Southwest in the GDS, please reach out to [email protected]
• If you have historically booked Southwest in the GDS and are simply looking to continue booking Southwest via Sabre, Apollo, Worldspan, Galileo, or Amadeus, please review the ticketing policy and Travel Agent Addendum available here: https://www.southwest.com/html/swabiz/gds-policy.html

You can do this directly through your SWABIZ account - no need to even pick up the phone!

Utilizing the SWABIZ Traveler Accounts will auto-populate all of your traveler's information, such as their name, date of birth, RR number, pre-check KTN, etc., all to save you time!

With the SWABIZ Ghost Card feature, your travelers can charge their reservations to your company's credit card without ever revealing your credit card's account or billing information. This saves you and your travelers' time and money on reimbursement and administrative costs!

The SWABIZ free-form Internal Reference Number field allows you to assign a word, number, or alpha-numeric value to each reservation (i.e. Marketing, Sales, Tech, e023500, etc.) This makes it easy to identify, prioritize, and/or lump each group, team or department together when running your travel report.

A SWABIZ account can have as many limited and/or full-access Company Travel Managers as needed. Plus, full-access CTMs can add other CTMs to the account as well.

Your SWABIZ account will remain active for six months after your last reservation transaction (i.e. initial booking, itinerary change, cancellation, etc.) If your account deactivates due to a lack of activity, you can call the SWABIZ Help Desk ( 1-888-479-2249 ) to request that it be reactivated. *Note that after an account is reactivated, it will only remain active for one month unless there is a reservation transaction.

For more info on Travel Policy, downloading reports, or login directions, visit here: https://www.swabiz.com/swabiz/ctm/help .

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The USGS reported the quake occurred about 7 miles north of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. It indicated that the quake might have been felt by more than 42 million people. There were several aftershocks later in the day, including one with a magnitude of 4.0.

People in Baltimore , Philadelphia , New Jersey, Connecticut, Boston and other areas of the Northeast reported shaking. Tremors lasting for several seconds were felt over 200 miles away near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.

The map below shows the seismic intensity of the earthquake. The map, which is mostly a lighter shade of blue, shows that the intensity was light to weak, depending on the distance from the epicenter. 

Another map released by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre on X, formerly Twitter, highlights the eyewitness reports of shaking and possible damage levels during the seismic event. 

#Earthquake 18 mi W of #Plainfield (New Jersey) 23 min ago (local time 10:23:20). Updated map - Colored dots represent local shaking & damage level reported by eyewitnesses. Share your experience via: 📱 https://t.co/IbUfG7TFOL 🌐 https://t.co/wErQf69jIn pic.twitter.com/jBjVw1ngAD — EMSC (@LastQuake) April 5, 2024

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have been briefed on the quake. 

"We're taking this extremely seriously and here's why: There's always the possibility of aftershocks. We have not felt a magnitude of this earthquake since about 2011," Hochul said. 

People across the region were startled by the rumbling of the quake. One New York City resident told CBS New York's Elijah Westbrook, "I was laying in my bed, and my whole apartment building started shaking. I started freaking out," 

It's not the first time the East Coast and New York City have been hit by an earthquake. 

A 5.0 quake was measured in New York City in 1884. 

The shaking stirred memories of the Aug. 23, 2011, earthquake that jolted tens of millions of people from Georgia to Canada. Registering magnitude 5.8, it was the strongest quake to hit the East Coast since World War II. The epicenter was in Virginia.

That earthquake left cracks in the Washington Monument, spurred the evacuation of the White House and Capitol and rattled New Yorkers three weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

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April 2024 Travel, Expense, and Card Policy Updates

The Travel and Card team is happy to announce the following policy updates and changes:

• UW-3022, International Travel : To align with Universities of Wisconsin foreign/international travel policy, two new allowable expenses associated with international travel will be added: international calling/data plans when accompanied by a business justification and required inoculations/vaccinations.
• UW-3024, Expense Reimbursement : Universities of Wisconsin require receipts regardless of cost for international calling/data plans as well as required inoculations/vaccinations. These have been added to the section “Receipts are always required…”
• UW-3018, Meals and Incidentals : A note has been added to clarify that individual phone calls are included in the incidental per diem rate, but international calling/data plans are reimbursable for foreign travel if supported by a UW business purpose.
• UW-3075, Official Functions and Expenses: Several Divisions on campus have reached out regarding whether children/dependent travel expenses may be included as part of an Official Function pre-approval for a UW-Madison job interview trip. Policy language currently limits this to “ a spouse/significant other/companion.” The “a” will be removed to allow for more flexibility in arranging job interview travel, where the number of accompanying individuals is not limited to one . The policy will now read: “Travel expenses for spouse/significant other/companions to accompany an applicant on a UW-Madison job interview trip.” The approved Official Function must outline each additional traveler for the job interview trip, the approved travel expenses for additional travelers, and the business benefit for including the additional traveler(s) on the job interview trip.
• UW-3026, Non-Payable/Non-Reimbursable Expenses : This policy needed to be updated to reflect that dependent travel expenses may be payable/reimbursable if associated with a preapproved Official Function for job applicant travel. Additionally, a provision for rental of graduation regalia was added. Purchase of regalia is neither payable nor reimbursable. Finally, we clarified a point of confusion around manuscript expenses; both article submission fees and article publication fees are payable/reimbursable when purchased using a card product (e.g., debit, credit).

All of these changes are reflected in the UW-Madison Policy Library .

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Bridge improvements start April 15 in Bay, Gratiot and Isabella counties

April 09, 2024

SAGINAW, Mich. - The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is investing $7.4 million to improve multiple bridges across Bay, Gratiot and Isabella counties. Work will include replacing expansion joints, concrete patching, structural repairs, painting, and beam work.

Work will be done on the following bridges:

• Northbound US-127 over the Chippewa River
• Southbound US-127 over the Chippewa River
• Southbound US-127 over East River Road
• Northbound US-127 over East River Road
• Northbound US-127 Business Loop over southbound US-127
• Isabella Road over US-127
• Westbound US-10 over Huron and Eastern Railroad
• Eastbound US-10 over Huron and Eastern Railroad
• Carter Road over US-10
• Northbound US-127 over Mid-Michigan Railroad
• Southbound US-127 over Mid-Michigan Railroad
• Northbound US-127 over Great Lakes Central Railroad
• Southbound US-127 over Great Lakes Central Railroad

County: Bay Gratiot Isabella

Highway: US-127 US-10

Closest cities: Mt. Pleasant Midland Auburn Ithaca Alma St. Louis

Start date: Monday, April 15, 2024

Estimated end date: April 2025

Traffic restrictions: Traffic will be maintained using shoulder closures, lane closures and ramp closures.

Jobs numbers: Based on economic modeling, this investment is expected to directly and indirectly support 90 jobs.

Safety benefit: This maintenance work is being done to improve the service lives and safety of these bridges across the region.

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Caitlyn French

MDOT Bay Region Media Representative

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