Southwest offers referral bonus to small companies

Southwest Airlines is offering small businesses 25,000 frequent flyer miles to refer other companies to its corporate travel program, aiming squarely at the segment of business travel that has recovered most. “A lot of these small and mid-sized companies just don’t have the structure to slow people down” and “if they don’t get people out there traveling to generate sales and new business development, they could lose the company completely,” said vice president of Southwest Business Dave Harvey.