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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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bru_that
03-02-2021 at 08:28 AM.
03-02-2021 at 08:28 AM.
Quote from funkmasterta :
When do Southwest points expire?
Never.
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03-02-2021 at 10:12 PM.
03-02-2021 at 10:12 PM.
Can you still earn companion pass for the next year as well if you open a business card and spend enough to reach the limit normally needed to earn companion pass?
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03-03-2021 at 01:37 PM.
03-03-2021 at 01:37 PM.
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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??
Find someone to use your referral link, and you'll earn 10k points.
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03-03-2021 at 05:01 PM.
03-03-2021 at 05:01 PM.
Quote from MichaelF8618 :
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??

Buy gift cards for places that you know you'll use, grocery, gas, etc. Try and use rr shopping.
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03-04-2021 at 08:11 AM.
03-04-2021 at 08:11 AM.
The only reason I don't like this deal is to how lousy it is to fly with Southwest. There is no first class or anything remotely more comfortable of you pay more. When you pay more, you're paying to board first to have your pick of seats. Pretty shitty.
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03-04-2021 at 01:00 PM.
03-04-2021 at 01:00 PM.
Quote from Phenomenon :
The only reason I don't like this deal is to how lousy it is to fly with Southwest. There is no first class or anything remotely more comfortable of you pay more. When you pay more, you're paying to board first to have your pick of seats. Pretty shitty.
And I have pretty much the opposite reaction with Southwest - unless you are paying/redeeming for domestic 1st class (kind of a waste except for JetBlue Mint), flying with Southwest is notably better than the competition (particularly AA and United - Delta is pretty good).
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03-04-2021 at 02:47 PM.
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Quote from Phenomenon :
The only reason I don't like this deal is to how lousy it is to fly with Southwest. There is no first class or anything remotely more comfortable of you pay more. When you pay more, you're paying to board first to have your pick of seats. Pretty shitty.

If you're willing to pay more, you're not flying Southwest. I'm not willing to pay more.

First class flights to Hawaii seem to run about $1000. I paid $300 on Southwest... to fly my whole family using two companion passes.

So I saved $3700. That was worth it to me.
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03-07-2021 at 09:16 PM.
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When do Southwest points expire?

Doesnt expire
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03-08-2021 at 01:40 PM.
03-08-2021 at 01:40 PM.
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So people are aware - this isn't just get the CC and you get the companion pass. There is also a $5,000 in 3 month minimum spend. So you'll actually get a total of 35,000 points, but still, a pretty big min. spend.
It was easy to me without any extra spend. Just my monthly recurring bills.

As others stated with limited travel right now wait for a better offer. I got the 60K miles last year as well. I'm at over 100K thanks to this reward card. So I have tons of "free" flights built up.
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03-08-2021 at 08:16 PM.
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No tax filing paperwork requirements? Good to know. Really awkward running a almost 7 figure business entirely through personal credit cards because my credit is mediocre because I keep maxing out cards with transactions lol.
If you're doing that much business, you're probably exposed to enough personal liability to set up an LLC. BUT if you're paying for business things with personal cards, even the laziest of attorneys can "pierce the corporate veil" and get directly at your assets by arguing that there's no functional difference between the company's assets and your own.

Get a DUNS number for your business (it's the business equivalent of a credit agency) and get that sorted quick!
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03-08-2021 at 10:14 PM.
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If you're doing that much business, you're probably exposed to enough personal liability to set up an LLC. BUT if you're paying for business things with personal cards, even the laziest of attorneys can "pierce the corporate veil" and get directly at your assets by arguing that there's no functional difference between the company's assets and your own.

Get a DUNS number for your business (it's the business equivalent of a credit agency) and get that sorted quick!
I do have an LLC, and have no choice on the personal cards. Have never been approved for a business card before.

Will look into the DUNS number, thank you for the advice Smilie
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03-09-2021 at 07:45 AM.
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Not flying until the stupid muzzle mania is ended. I am not a sheep...
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Not flying until the stupid muzzle mania is ended. I am not a sheep...

Speaking of farm animals, how's your mother?🙃
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Not flying until the stupid muzzle mania is ended. I am not a sheep...

I'd say most of the people who aren't flying are the sheep.
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03-25-2021 at 08:11 PM.
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Has anyone received their Companion Pass yet? I'm curious how long it will take after spending the $5k.
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