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Chase is offering a Companion Pass through 2/28/2022 + 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of account opening for the Southwest Rapid Rewards Plus Credit Card. Annual fee is $69.

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Card Details:
  • Earn Companion Pass through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
  • With Companion Pass, every time you fly, your friend can too.
  • 3,000 bonus points after your Cardmember anniversary each year.
  • Earn 2 points per $1 spent on Southwest purchases.
  • 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases.
  • All points earned count towards Companion Pass.
  • No blackout dates or seat restrictions.
  • Your points never expire, a benefit of the Rapid Rewards program.
Chase is also offering a Companion Pass through 2/28/2022 + 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of account opening for the Southwest Rapid Rewards Premiere Credit Card. Annual fee is $99.

Card Details:
  • Earn Companion Pass through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
  • With Companion Pass, every time you fly, your friend can too.
  • 6,000 bonus points after your Cardmember anniversary each year.
  • Earn 2 points per $1 spent on Southwest purchases.
  • 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases.
  • No foreign transaction fees.
  • No blackout dates or seat restrictions.
  • Your points never expire, a benefit of the Rapid Rewards program.
Chase is also offering a Companion Pass through 2/28/2022 + 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of account opening for the Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority Credit Card. Annual fee is $149.

Card Details:
  • Earn Companion Pass through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
  • With Companion Pass, every time you fly, your friend can too.
  • 7,500 bonus points after your Cardmember anniversary each year.
  • $75 Southwest travel credit each year.
  • 4 Upgraded Boardings per year when available.
  • 20% back on in-flight drinks and WiFi.
  • Earn 2 points per $1 spent on Southwest purchases.
  • 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases.
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Chase is offering a Companion Pass® through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 in purchases in the first 3 months of account opening for the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card. Annual fee is $69.

Card Details:
  • Earn Companion Pass® through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
  • With Companion Pass®, every time you fly, your friend can too.
  • 3,000 bonus points after your Cardmember anniversary each year.
  • Earn 2 points per $1 spent on Southwest® purchases.
  • 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases.
  • All points earned count towards Companion Pass.
  • No blackout dates or seat restrictions.
  • Your points never expire, a benefit of the Rapid Rewards® program.
Chase is offering a Companion Pass® through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 in purchases in the first 3 months of account opening for the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card. Annual fee is $99.

Card Details:
  • Earn Companion Pass® through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
  • With Companion Pass®, every time you fly, your friend can too.
  • 6,000 bonus points after your Cardmember anniversary each year.
  • Earn 2 points per $1 spent on Southwest® purchases.
  • 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases.
  • No foreign transaction fees.
  • No blackout dates or seat restrictions.
  • Your points never expire, a benefit of the Rapid Rewards® program.
Chase is offering a Companion Pass® through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 in purchases in the first 3 months of account opening for the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Priority Credit Card. Annual fee is $149.

Card Details:
  • Earn Companion Pass® through 2/28/2022 plus 30,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
  • With Companion Pass®, every time you fly, your friend can too.
  • 7,500 bonus points after your Cardmember anniversary each year.
  • $75 Southwest® travel credit each year.
  • 4 Upgraded Boardings per year when available.
  • 20% back on in-flight drinks and WiFi.
  • Earn 2 points per $1 spent on Southwest® purchases.
  • 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases.
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I think this is a poor deal. It only takes 100k points this year to earn a companion pass for the rest of this year and all of 2022. Sign up for 1 business and 1 personal Southwest card and you're golden.
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How much flying are you actually going to do before 2/2022? I definitely want to do a companion pass offer, but not one that expires right when I'd want to start using it!
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Eh, as someone who has played the Companion Pass game for a while, this is just sort of "meh". Traditionally it's been good for the remainder of the calendar year, plus the entire following year. So if you get it by, say, March of 2021, you'd have it through the end of 2022. The total spent on purchases was about the same ($3k on one, and $2k on the other maybe?).

For this to work, you have to spend $5k within 3 months (not that easy to do, at least for me), and then you have to wait for the next billing cycle before you get your Companion Pass, and then it's only good till February of next year. And you only get 30,000 points whereas previously you'd get 50k (or 40k and 60k) per card.

That being said, they currently raised the threshold for the Companion Pass to 125k miles, so you would have needed to open more than 2 cards (and pay the resulting annual fees). So I guess this is decent if you want a Companion Pass? Wouldn't have minded having this available a month ago when we had to replace our furnace and AC (yay, $8k on a credit card!), but otherwise it doesn't really seem like that big of a deal. $5k is a lot to drop in only 3 months.
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Tokar
02-12-2021 at 04:28 AM.
02-12-2021 at 04:28 AM.
If you signup through Drop, using the travel credit card option which forwards to creditsoup.com, you'll get $85 worth of points on Drop... more than enough to cover the fee. The southwest cards are 3 of the 6 cards offered through this promo (the others being Chase Freedom Flex, Citi AA card and and one other platinum card worth $149/yr)
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christosocial
02-12-2021 at 05:56 AM.
02-12-2021 at 05:56 AM.
Quote from pitt23fan :
They just had the 80,000 point offer which got you 88,000 points(It was 5k for 1st 50,000, then another 3k for 2nd 30,000) putting you only 12,000 points off of a companion pass good for all of 2021/2022 PLUS an extra 50,000 in points....that was the real deal.

Myself, my account just got an offer for flying 2 RT in February and get it free until June 31st, so this offer would only give me an extra 8 months. I fly 2-4x a week, so I might be able to earn it the regular way this year.
What do you mean by "Plus an extra 50,000 in points"? Was there another promotion after the 80,000 offer?
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02-12-2021 at 06:28 AM.
02-12-2021 at 06:28 AM.
Quote from christosocial :
What do you mean by "Plus an extra 50,000 in points"? Was there another promotion after the 80,000 offer?
This offer is only 30,000 points and 10-11 months of CP while that offer was 80,000 points and you'd only need 12,000 more to get CP for an extra 9-12 months(depending when you signed up). So 50,000 more points.
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odorfreedk
02-12-2021 at 06:55 AM.
02-12-2021 at 06:55 AM.
Are there any promos that extends it to the end of next year with companion pass?
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pitt23fan
02-12-2021 at 01:23 PM.
02-12-2021 at 01:23 PM.
Quote from odorfreedk :
Are there any promos that extends it to the end of next year with companion pass?
Getting 125,000 points. This offer is horrible and a waste to signup for.
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02-12-2021 at 01:24 PM.
02-12-2021 at 01:24 PM.
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I'm advocating opening 1 personal account that'll show up in a credit report and 1 business account that will not show up on a report. Chase has loosened up their restrictions on "businesses" for sole props. I was actually just approved for the SW Performance Biz card last week with minimal revenue and years in business on the application.

Biz Card - 70k pts after $5k spend
Personal Card - 30K pts after $2k spend

End up with 107k points & companion pass through 2022. Having CP now through Feb of next year means a lot of folks here won't be able to actually take advantage of it before it expires. The spend and the annual fees isn't for everybody, but I would suggest people really consider what they would get out of this deal before springing for it. I would probably actually wait for a better personal card offer, maybe a 50k one.
Congrats on your approval of Chase SW Performance Biz card. How many years in business did you fill in the credit card application?
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02-13-2021 at 06:54 AM.
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Annual Fee: $149.

Nope. Pass.
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02-14-2021 at 09:28 AM.
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I applied for the $69 card and it's been two days and nothing yet. Still under review apparently.
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02-15-2021 at 09:13 AM.
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I applied for the $69 card and it's been two days and nothing yet. Still under review apparently.

Call 1-888-270-2127
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That being said, they currently raised the threshold for the Companion Pass to 125k miles, so you would have needed to open more than 2 cards (and pay the resulting annual fees). So I guess this is decent if you want a Companion Pass? Wouldn't have minded having this available a month ago when we had to replace our furnace and AC (yay, $8k on a credit card!), but otherwise it doesn't really seem like that big of a deal. $5k is a lot to drop in only 3 months.
I honestly don't understand.

To accumulate 125,000 miles, I would have to spend a **ton** of cash on travel specifically. More than $5,000, in all likelihood, and I don't travel much typically. So why is this a bad deal?

Sure, more bonus would be great, but if I want a companion pass, this effectively costs me nothing more than the annual fee, because I can put more than 5k on a credit card in a month easy (family of 4).

So what am I missing here?
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02-16-2021 at 02:50 PM.
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Quote from jeffstevens :
I honestly don't understand.

To accumulate 125,000 miles, I would have to spend a **ton** of cash on travel specifically. More than $5,000, in all likelihood, and I don't travel much typically. So why is this a bad deal?

Sure, more bonus would be great, but if I want a companion pass, this effectively costs me nothing more than the annual fee, because I can put more than 5k on a credit card in a month easy (family of 4).

So what am I missing here?
Previously the spending requirement was WAY lower per card, so you'd end up spending far less than $5k. No clue what it'll be after this promo ends, but usually it's only in the range of $1-2k/card (if I can remember correctly, it's been a couple years). So yes, you'd be out an additional $100 or so in annual fees, but you'd also end up with 125k miles instead of just 30k.
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02-16-2021 at 04:39 PM.
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Quote from Tokar :
If you signup through Drop, using the travel credit card option which forwards to creditsoup.com, you'll get $85 worth of points on Drop... more than enough to cover the fee. The southwest cards are 3 of the 6 cards offered through this promo (the others being Chase Freedom Flex, Citi AA card and and one other platinum card worth $149/yr)

Do you have a link for drop? Is it an app or a website? Tia
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Do you have a link for drop? Is it an app or a website? Tia
It is in the App, no website. Gotta click through the promo in the app. If you dont have it you can sign up for it (referral perhaps? :-) https://b.ewd.io/code?c=xkzv7 )

Thanks in advance.
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It is in the App, no website. Gotta click through the promo in the app. If you dont have it you can sign up for it (referral perhaps? :-) https://b.ewd.io/code?c=xkzv7 )

Thanks in advance.

Thanks but I'm not seeing it in the app. Maybe its account specific?
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Thanks but I'm not seeing it in the app. Maybe its account specific?
sort by highest paying offers. itll be near the top
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