Chase is offering aCompanion 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.
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.
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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.
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!
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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I've had a Southwest card for about 5 years. Every time I try to get points with a new card I'm turned down because I have one. Can I cancel the card I have and get another card for more points? If I cancel my first card will I lose my points?
I've had a Southwest card for about 5 years. Every time I try to get points with a new card I'm turned down because I have one. Can I cancel the card I have and get another card for more points? If I cancel my first card will I lose my points?
Delete the card and apply for a new one after a couple months. You don't lose points
ok so i got the last card with the 80,000 point offer and now i am a mere 9500 miles away from Companion Pass. I ordered some stuff from 1800 flowers, got the survey bonus, and am gonna go out to eat at some point with RR dining...any other suggestions??
ok so i got the last card with the 80,000 point offer and now i am a mere 9500 miles away from Companion Pass. I ordered some stuff from 1800 flowers, got the survey bonus, and am gonna go out to eat at some point with RR dining...any other suggestions??
Anyone know if this stacks with referral bonuses for current SW cardholders? I am a Priority cardholder and this deal would work well for my sister but not sure if I send her the referral link I have, if it will kill the "instant CP with 5k spend" offer.
so after your $5000 spend + the 30,000 points, you'd be A-list?
Nope, You'd have a Companion pass, but you would both not have any better boarding position.
A- list is only from flying. Companion pass qualifying points are different from tier qualifying points (TQP) which are only available from flying and a small bonus from the upper level credit cards
ok so i got the last card with the 80,000 point offer and now i am a mere 9500 miles away from Companion Pass. I ordered some stuff from 1800 flowers, got the survey bonus, and am gonna go out to eat at some point with RR dining...any other suggestions??
Some hotels through Southwest give cheap points upgrades. You could go to Vegas and get 5000 points per night and only pay about $80 extra for those points (basically at cost).
I'm considering that for December if I'm close to CP again. Too bad they don't offer it at most hotels.
I don't know much about the companion pass. Is this a good deal for a family of 4 who'd like to go to Hawaii this summer? $5k min spend shouldn't be an issue - we have $4k car insurance due early March. Is the companion pass really something worthwhile? I don't know how much airline we'd use after summer thru Feb 2022, though.
I don't know much about the companion pass. Is this a good deal for a family of 4 who'd like to go to Hawaii this summer? $5k min spend shouldn't be an issue - we have $4k car insurance due early March. Is the companion pass really something worthwhile? I don't know how much airline we'd use after summer thru Feb 2022, though.
I use mine all the time. It's all a function of your travel capability.
We got a bonus pass for Jan and Feb so we took the kids on weekend trips every other week.
If you have the time to travel for leisure, or can take your companion on work trips, it's basically free money. The only downside is it really only "saves" money on last minute bookings that are expensive. If you plan ahead, the cost of the saved ticket is lower, and you end up spending much more than that in hotel, car, food, etc.
So yes, you save money... but you end up being poor. 😄
so after your $5000 spend + the 30,000 points, you'd be A-list?
No, companion pass is not a "status". You can earn companion pass with credit card spend only.
To get a-list/preferred you have to fly. There are some cards that give you 1500 tier qualifying points every $10k spend but I haven't done the math if it's even possible that route.
Delete the card and apply for a new one after a couple months. You don't lose points
It used to be you could get the bonus every 24 months so I would basically stagger the cards (plus/premier) every other year so I was getting one bonus a year. Do this and fly a lot and you always get companion pass. However... I have heard they changed to only 1 bonus every 24 months for personal cards (any flavor) and the business card. I assume eventually they'll do like amex and do 1 bonus per lifetime per specific type.
Another thing that doesn't work that I believed used to in the past. I signed up my wife but used my RR number only to find all the points went to her RR account.
So you're advocating opening TWO credit accounts, with TWO minimum spend requirements, and TWO annual fees?
Keeping in mind that business cards for non business owners is not so easy to get any more with simply your SSN and lying about your Ebay sales.
Your scenario is one path to the CP if someone chooses to it, but that does not make this a "poor" deal for many who want a simpler path to the CP.
It is difficult to get the business card now. With that being said, I still think this deal sucks. I wouldnt waste my time with 30k points and a year of companion pass. Id rather have 100k+ points and a companion pass.
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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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Nope, You'd have a Companion pass, but you would both not have any better boarding position.
A- list is only from flying. Companion pass qualifying points are different from tier qualifying points (TQP) which are only available from flying and a small bonus from the upper level credit cards
Some hotels through Southwest give cheap points upgrades. You could go to Vegas and get 5000 points per night and only pay about $80 extra for those points (basically at cost).
I'm considering that for December if I'm close to CP again. Too bad they don't offer it at most hotels.
I use mine all the time. It's all a function of your travel capability.
We got a bonus pass for Jan and Feb so we took the kids on weekend trips every other week.
If you have the time to travel for leisure, or can take your companion on work trips, it's basically free money. The only downside is it really only "saves" money on last minute bookings that are expensive. If you plan ahead, the cost of the saved ticket is lower, and you end up spending much more than that in hotel, car, food, etc.
So yes, you save money... but you end up being poor. 😄
No, companion pass is not a "status". You can earn companion pass with credit card spend only.
To get a-list/preferred you have to fly. There are some cards that give you 1500 tier qualifying points every $10k spend but I haven't done the math if it's even possible that route.
It used to be you could get the bonus every 24 months so I would basically stagger the cards (plus/premier) every other year so I was getting one bonus a year. Do this and fly a lot and you always get companion pass. However... I have heard they changed to only 1 bonus every 24 months for personal cards (any flavor) and the business card. I assume eventually they'll do like amex and do 1 bonus per lifetime per specific type.
Another thing that doesn't work that I believed used to in the past. I signed up my wife but used my RR number only to find all the points went to her RR account.
Keeping in mind that business cards for non business owners is not so easy to get any more with simply your SSN and lying about your Ebay sales.
Your scenario is one path to the CP if someone chooses to it, but that does not make this a "poor" deal for many who want a simpler path to the CP.
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