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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Wonder if I can do this to manufacture some spending. Buy something expensive, collect bonus, return item.
Ya, agents confirmed that's how it works and once points are sent from chase to southwest they can't be taken back. When you're ready for the bonus just make a large purchase that puts you over your spend, once it hits your account check your bonus tracker and it should show congratulations you've earned your bonus and show the points pending for the statement. At that point you're good to cancel/return, it has no effect on the bonus.
I am new to this game and I screwed it big tim as well. Was carefully planning my spend on the personal card but didn't see my business card reached the limit (over by $2) and bonus points will be posted in few days. I don't know how i will get the needed points (60K) next year. Any pointers? And also if anyone needed referral link please pm me. It can help us both. Thanks for reading this post.🙏🙏
I am new to this game and I screwed it big tim as well. Was carefully planning my spend on the personal card but didn't see my business card reached the limit (over by $2) and bonus points will be posted in few days. I don't know how i will get the needed points (60K) next year. Any pointers? And also if anyone needed referral link please pm me. It can help us both. Thanks for reading this post.🙏🙏
Dispute a small dicey transaction and hope to get a conditional credit ahead of your statement close date.
Not strictly ethical, so please keep it to a charge that you really have a beef with.
Word of warning to anyone who is tracking spending towards your bonuses on these SWA cards, returns still count towards minimum spend. Meaning, anything you buy regardless if it is returned or canceled right away it will count towards the total if it hits the card at some point. I'm currently in the process of getting screwed out of buddy pass because I made a purchase for a fridge, the order had to be modified so was canceled, then re ordered. The card shows the refund as actually hitting before the charge was even made but it pushed me over the 3k spend limit. Again, this was never reflected on the actual balance. Went from pending to refund then the actual charge showed the next day but it pushed over the 3k spend. So, whatever you buy regardless of it's canceled or not will count towards the spend. This could be taken advantage of as well if you don't wanna spend honestly, according to everything the agents have been saying you could just buy $3k worth of whatever, cancel or return it and you've met the spend. It's crazy, frustrating and cost me big.
Do referrals. You may still yet make it to your buddy pass.
Dispute a small dicey transaction and hope to get a conditional credit ahead of your statement close date.
Not strictly ethical, so please keep it to a charge that you really have a beef with.
It doesn't matter if you dispute or return or cancel, once you've crossed the spending threshold the bonus will apply to your statement. You can see it on your tracker, doesn't matter if you return all $3k worth.
Hi Guys... I got in this a little early (50k+80k points) leaving me 5k shy of getting the companion pass. I just logged into the website to see my status and noticed this:
Members with an open Southwest® Rapid Rewards® Credit Card on the first business day of each calendar year will earn one boost of 10,000 Companion Pass® qualifying points each calendar year. The boost will be deposited into eligible Member's account by January 31 of the calendar year. When a Member opens a Rapid Rewards Credit Card after the first business day of the calendar year, they will receive one boost of 10,000 Companion Pass qualifying points up to 30 days after opening the Rapid Rewards Credit Card.
Does that mean now I do qualify for the CP considering the total is now 140k points? Meaning I don't need to do struggle for the extra 5k points?
PS: Opened Business card with 80k bonus on Nov 1st, Opened personal card with 50k bonus on Nov 5th. Both cards have about $50 spend remaining as of today 1/1/2023. The due date for both cards is mid-January.
I got the $199 biz card to get the CP pass for 23/24. Once the miles are in my SW account can I close the card & avoid the $199 ? Thanks
You can close the account after points post but you still have to pay $199 for the first year. I didn't see anything about the fee being waived for the first year.
You can close the account after points post but you still have to pay $199 for the first year. I didn't see anything about the fee being waived for the first year.
I seem to recall you can get the annual fee reimbursed if you close the account within 90 (?) days of paying it.
Southwest gift cards options suck. I had a card years ago and they used to offer Walmart, Amazon, Lowe's, etc. Now the best they offer is freaking Kohl's, Panera and bass pro shop,...rei too. I'll never bother with this trash card again. Their redemption for flights sucks. I'll stick with AA moving forward.
and yes, we did the CP years ago. It was easy to book flights for few rewards. Now it costs a small fortune.
2023. Spending completed 1st week of Jan, statement ended second week of Jan. I am still short about 5k points from the requirement (have 130k points, 135k needed), see attached, but still this showed up in my account. Called southwest and submitted an enquiry. Let's see.
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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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Ya, agents confirmed that's how it works and once points are sent from chase to southwest they can't be taken back. When you're ready for the bonus just make a large purchase that puts you over your spend, once it hits your account check your bonus tracker and it should show congratulations you've earned your bonus and show the points pending for the statement. At that point you're good to cancel/return, it has no effect on the bonus.
Not strictly ethical, so please keep it to a charge that you really have a beef with.
edit: it doesn't work apparently.
Not strictly ethical, so please keep it to a charge that you really have a beef with.
It doesn't matter if you dispute or return or cancel, once you've crossed the spending threshold the bonus will apply to your statement. You can see it on your tracker, doesn't matter if you return all $3k worth.
Members with an open Southwest® Rapid Rewards® Credit Card on the first business day of each calendar year will earn one boost of 10,000 Companion Pass® qualifying points each calendar year. The boost will be deposited into eligible Member's account by January 31 of the calendar year. When a Member opens a Rapid Rewards Credit Card after the first business day of the calendar year, they will receive one boost of 10,000 Companion Pass qualifying points up to 30 days after opening the Rapid Rewards Credit Card.
Does that mean now I do qualify for the CP considering the total is now 140k points? Meaning I don't need to do struggle for the extra 5k points?
PS: Opened Business card with 80k bonus on Nov 1st, Opened personal card with 50k bonus on Nov 5th. Both cards have about $50 spend remaining as of today 1/1/2023. The due date for both cards is mid-January.
Thanks for your help.
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I seem to recall you can get the annual fee reimbursed if you close the account within 90 (?) days of paying it.
Now I'm terrified of flying with Southwest.
Did you finish your spending in 2022 or 2023?
and yes, we did the CP years ago. It was easy to book flights for few rewards. Now it costs a small fortune.
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