At ASA, DH gets 8 buddy passes a year and he since both his mom and dad are remarried he can only choose one set to get the parent cards. So, he chose his mom and step dad since they funded his flight training
His dad and step mom use buddy passes quite often as well as his paternal grandfather. BUT the buddy passes are not cheap. This past January his brother used a buddy pass to fly from Jacksonville, Fl to Vegas and the fee was 168.00 round trip. Not exactly cheap huh? Some people love using them, to others it's not worth the risk of not getting on.