Chase is offering the following: Earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months with the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus, Premier, & Priority Credit Cards.
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The Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card offers the following benefits. The annual fee is $69.
Limited Time Offer: Earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
3,000 anniversary points each year.
Earn 2X points on Southwest® purchases.
Earn 2X points on local transit and commuting, including rideshare.
Earn 2X points on internet, cable, and phone services, and select streaming.
2 EarlyBird Check-In® each year.
Earn 1 point for every $1 spent on all other purchases.
All points earned count towards Companion Pass®.
The Southwest Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card offers the following benefits. The annual fee is $99.
Limited Time Offer: Earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
6,000 anniversary points each year.
Earn 3X points on Southwest® purchases.
Earn 2X points on local transit and commuting, including rideshare.
Earn 2X points on internet, cable, and phone services, and select streaming.
2 EarlyBird Check-In® each year.
All points earned count towards Companion Pass®.
No foreign transaction fees.
The Southwest Rapid Rewards® Priority Credit Card offers the following benefits. The annual fee is $149.
Limited Time Offer: Earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
7,500 anniversary points each year.
Earn 3X points on Southwest® purchases.
Earn 2X points on local transit and commuting, including rideshare.
Earn 2X points on internet, cable, and phone services, and select streaming.
Chase is offering the following: Earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months with the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus, Premier, & Priority Credit Cards.
The Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card offers the following benefits. The annual fee is $69.
Limited Time Offer: Earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
3,000 anniversary points each year.
Earn 2X points on Southwest® purchases.
Earn 2X points on local transit and commuting, including rideshare.
Earn 2X points on internet, cable, and phone services, and select streaming.
2 EarlyBird Check-In® each year.
Earn 1 point for every $1 spent on all other purchases.
All points earned count towards Companion Pass®.
The Southwest Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card offers the following benefits. The annual fee is $99.
Limited Time Offer: Earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
6,000 anniversary points each year.
Earn 3X points on Southwest® purchases.
Earn 2X points on local transit and commuting, including rideshare.
Earn 2X points on internet, cable, and phone services, and select streaming.
2 EarlyBird Check-In® each year.
All points earned count towards Companion Pass®.
No foreign transaction fees.
The Southwest Rapid Rewards® Priority Credit Card offers the following benefits. The annual fee is $149.
Limited Time Offer: Earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.
7,500 anniversary points each year.
Earn 3X points on Southwest® purchases.
Earn 2X points on local transit and commuting, including rideshare.
Earn 2X points on internet, cable, and phone services, and select streaming.
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SWA has announced that, starting in 2023, Southwest is raising the qualifying benchmark for the Companion Pass from achieving 125,000 qualifying points to 135,000 qualifying points in the same calendar year.
You can earn it through credit card spend points, but you can also earn it through other ways such as referral points for referring people to get the card and/or spending through the spending portal or spend partners. In years past, I have gotten the companion pass pretty early in the calendar year with one card's large bonus + referral points from a few people who signed up.
If you are targeting the companion pass, get the card now, but remember not to complete the full initial spend of $3,000 until late December 2022 or Jan 2023 -- and after your December billing statement closes (but still before the 3 month window from when you were approved). This is so you get the bonus in 2023. Then do other things in 2023 to get to 135,000 qualifying points, and you will have a companion pass for the rest of 2023 and all of 2024.
Yes! The best plan is the qualify to earn the companion pass in early 2023 and the CP goes the rest of the year and all of 2024!
Yes, but you should make sure both bonuses hit in early 2023 (instead of one bonus hitting in late 2022 and one hitting in early 2023)...Track your spending.
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For example, if I reach the $3,000 spend on Dec 15, the statement closes Jan 5, do i get the bonus points on Dec 15 or Jan 5 or some other date? I want to make sure I get the points in Jan to get the CP in 2023.
Points post with your statement(or a couple days after). So as long as you wait until after your December statement to finish your spend requirement, you should be fine with points posting in January.
I will hold out in hopes of the companion pass offer during the spring / March. I even cancelled my SW cards in preparation of this offer happening March 2023 🤞🏽
What do you mean by "the companion pass offer"? Are you talking about taking a round-trip flight during a certain time period to earn a companion pass, similar to what they offered in Sept 2021 and Sept 2022?
If so, I doubt VERY seriously that will happen. Things will have to be going very wrong for them to offer that during the start of spring break. The only time they did that was when they were still struggling due to the pandemic, in early 2021. Even then, it was specific to being booked through a corporate travel portal.
If I do the Priority card now - do they allow you to downgrade later, if you decide it isn't worth while? I don't want to cancel it entirely and have that hurt my credit.
For example, if I reach the $3,000 spend on Dec 15, the statement closes Jan 5, do i get the bonus points on Dec 15 or Jan 5 or some other date? I want to make sure I get the points in Jan to get the CP in 2023.
Since the points won't be posted until January, they'll be considered earned for 2023 since it's the January statement. I received this offer in my email and it references this situation specifically, copy and pasted below:
Points earned during a billing cycle on a Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Credit Card from Chase are not available for redemption or qualification for Companion Pass status until they are posted on your billing statement and posted to your Rapid Rewards account. Only points posted on your billing statements and posted to your Rapid Rewards account during the same calendar year are available for qualification for Companion Pass status.For example, if you make a purchase after your December billing statement cycle date, the points on those purchases will not count toward Companion Pass status in the year the purchase was made; they will appear on your January billing statement and post to your Rapid Rewards account in January.
Do gift cards count towards the minimum spend? I don't mean Amex gift cards or Vanilla visa card-type gift cards, but retailer gift cards, like Amazon or Home Depot. Sorry if this is a dumb question. I've been out of the credit card game for a while.
Also, if I apply and am approved today, would my billing cycle start/end on the 4th of the month? So to complete the minimum spend as close to Jan 1 as possible, I'd want to have a billing cycle end date as close to (but after) Jan 1 as possible, correct?
Do gift cards count towards the minimum spend? I don't mean Amex gift cards or Vanilla visa card-type gift cards, but retailer gift cards, like Amazon or Home Depot. Sorry if this is a dumb question. I've been out of the credit card game for a while.
Also, if I apply and am approved today, would my billing cycle start/end on the 4th of the month? So to complete the minimum spend as close to Jan 1 as possible, I'd want to have a billing cycle end date as close to (but after) Jan 1 as possible, correct?
Yes, you can buy retailer gift cards, or pre-pay utilities to meet the min spend.
Correct, you want the points to hit in 2023. If you dont have a trip planned in January you shouldnt have to worry to much about them hitting early in the month, just make sure they dont hit in December.
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You can earn it through credit card spend points, but you can also earn it through other ways such as referral points for referring people to get the card and/or spending through the spending portal or spend partners. In years past, I have gotten the companion pass pretty early in the calendar year with one card's large bonus + referral points from a few people who signed up.
If you are targeting the companion pass, get the card now, but remember not to complete the full initial spend of $3,000 until late December 2022 or Jan 2023 -- and after your December billing statement closes (but still before the 3 month window from when you were approved). This is so you get the bonus in 2023. Then do other things in 2023 to get to 135,000 qualifying points, and you will have a companion pass for the rest of 2023 and all of 2024.
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Points post with your statement(or a couple days after). So as long as you wait until after your December statement to finish your spend requirement, you should be fine with points posting in January.
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If so, I doubt VERY seriously that will happen. Things will have to be going very wrong for them to offer that during the start of spring break. The only time they did that was when they were still struggling due to the pandemic, in early 2021. Even then, it was specific to being booked through a corporate travel portal.
Points earned during a billing cycle on a Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Credit Card from Chase are not available for redemption or qualification for Companion Pass status until they are posted on your billing statement and posted to your Rapid Rewards account. Only points posted on your billing statements and posted to your Rapid Rewards account during the same calendar year are available for qualification for Companion Pass status. For example, if you make a purchase after your December billing statement cycle date, the points on those purchases will not count toward Companion Pass status in the year the purchase was made; they will appear on your January billing statement and post to your Rapid Rewards account in January.
Also, if I apply and am approved today, would my billing cycle start/end on the 4th of the month? So to complete the minimum spend as close to Jan 1 as possible, I'd want to have a billing cycle end date as close to (but after) Jan 1 as possible, correct?
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Also, if I apply and am approved today, would my billing cycle start/end on the 4th of the month? So to complete the minimum spend as close to Jan 1 as possible, I'd want to have a billing cycle end date as close to (but after) Jan 1 as possible, correct?
Yes, you can buy retailer gift cards, or pre-pay utilities to meet the min spend.
Correct, you want the points to hit in 2023. If you dont have a trip planned in January you shouldnt have to worry to much about them hitting early in the month, just make sure they dont hit in December.
Only option was to cancel and re-apply...
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If I do get the SWA Priority card, can it be downgrade to a Chase Freedom or SWA Plus card (lowest tier)?
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