Share Crazy! I wrote this post yesterday and had this back door way for you to possibly get in on the generous Companion Pass offer. However, today while searching Southwest.com for flights I saw that they are advertising the 2 free flights (50,000 points offer) on their homepage. In the fall of 2011, I [...]
Southwest Companion Pass: How to Get Two Years of Free Southwest Flights in 15 minutes
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Ultimate Rewards Alert: Points Soon to Transfer to Southwest Rapid Rewards
December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share Ultimate Rewards has been positioning itself as a serious competitor to the American Express Membership Rewards program (or is AMEX now the competitor?). I thought this post would be a good follow up to Monday’s post where I introduced the Rapid Rewards Program. When I wrote about how Ultimate Rewards are gaining on Membership [...]
Southwest Rapid Rewards Program Introduction and Overview
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share Today, we’re continuing a series where I’ll be featuring some of the basic, introductory material about different award programs. Today we’re featuring the Southwest Rapid Rewards Program. That way if you’re new to the ‘game’, you can just read this cheat sheet rather than trying to compile all the information by yourself. If you’re [...]
Why the Southwest Credit Card is Nearly Perfect for Domestic US Travelers
October 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
Share This week I was having an email conversation with someone. We were discussing the Southwest credit card. Almost mid-sentence, I started feeling like a sleazy salesman. I was really pushing hard for her to consider this card because I felt like it would suit her travel needs well and was a great value. I [...]
50,000 Chase Southwest | $833 Worth of Flights | Sign Up Bonus is Back (and Better)
October 17, 2011 By 2 Comments
Share This offer is expired. The current best offer is 25,000 Southwest miles. For a the month of July (till early August), Chase offered a 50,000 Southwest mile sign up bonus. After that one month promotion, the offer was gone. As always, it’s sad to see good promotions go. Well, I’ve got good news. IT’S [...]
How to Get Up To Five Free SWA Round-trips with 50,000 Southwest Points
July 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
Share With the current Southwest credit card promotion you can earn 50,000 points. The beauty of the Southwest program is that if you can find dirt cheap fares, your miles can keep on giving you more and more free travel. Of course, it is always good to have a stock pile of miles with different [...]
Southwest Credit Card | $830 Worth of Flights
July 7, 2011 By 3 Comments
Share Update October 18th, 2011. This promotions is BACK! To get the updated details you can click here. It is a limited time offer, but Chase is not saying for how long. Depending on your travel habits, this 2 free round trip Southwest credit card promotion ought to give you a reason to smile. If [...]
Chase Southwest Visa Plus Card Review and Introduction
May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Share Early in 2011 Chase made some dramatic changes to the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card. This, of course, was in response to some dramatic changes with the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Program. Southwest Airline Rapid Rewards Quick Intro Southwest now uses a points based award system. The number of points you earn [...]
How to Make Your Own Lowest Rate Guarantee with Southwest | I Saved $500+
May 23, 2011 By 2 Comments
Share Typically, when you buy plane tickets it’s like timing the stock market. With stocks, you pick the best day to make your investment and hope that prices go up, not down afterward. Usually, when you buy plane tickets you buy the ticket and hope prices go up, not down. This method of buying plane [...]
All New Rapid Rewards Program by Southwest | Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
January 9, 2011 By 11 Comments
Share This morning there was an email in my Inbox. Actually, there were about 100 emails in my Inbox. However, there was one I was particularity interested in reading. The title: Announcing the All-New Rapid Rewards® Program! One of my favorite programs, Southwest Rapid Rewards, is changing. The first line: “On March 1, 2011, Rapid [...]
