I noticed if you book using points on SWA, they now require more points for a non-stop flight than a same price trip with stops. Thanks SWA!
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I noticed if you book using points on SWA, they now require more points for a non-stop flight than a same price trip with stops. Thanks SWA!
The good news is that doesn't appear to be a hard and fast rule - they change the points required for each flight dynamically. I have actually found several 70pt ratio nonstops to Vegas, though of course that limits flexibility. I try to use casino credits to pay for Business Select fares in 'cash' and use my SW points for bargain points routes.
I booked 2 flights to Vegas using points yesterday. Each flight was 12,170 pts. So I used 24,340 and had 24,376. I now have 36 pts in my account lol. Usually I'm short a few points, this time worked out.
I'm new to Southwest credits but I re-booked my out going flight today to Houston for the Coushatta M&G for a $31 credit. Question......let's say I do this multiple times before the flight in Nov, will all the credits be lumped together as a total credit to be used on a future flight (I know it expires 1 yr from date of original booking) or are they considered individual credits with a limit to how many you can use for that future flight? I hope that makes sense, lol!
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Never did it but my guess would be that if you rebook the same flight it would add up as they are tied to the original reservation number when you go to use them...but that's just a guess.
So Ken, even if it only goes down like $5 (which is all my return flight dropped) I should go for it because it's the total savings attached to that reservation to be used for future flight, not a limit of "X" amount of credit changes?
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Thanks @CPT!
I usually take a screen shot of page that has the rebooking info. You have to keep track of that stuff.
Good idea trey, thanks.
I see that my return flight has now gone back up before I could save that $5, lol. There's a different flight that leaves Hobby a half hour later but only has a 35 minute layover in Dallas Love vs. my 1 hr. layover. Anything under 45 minutes for a layover scares me so I think I'll just keep watching my original return flight especially seeing that if I would fail to make that connection in Dallas, I'd be sleeping in the airport since it's the last flight to Pittsburgh that night. Not worth the $41 savings at all!
Another factor is if you buy the Early Bird check-in. I'm convinced it's order is chronological based on when you buy the EB pass. When you rebook, you get sent to the end of the EB check-in line. You may be swapping A18 for A44 when you rebook.
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I may have been booted back, but out of spite I got the $10 back for rebooking my flight as the fare went down. Take that Southwest! :bounce:
Also, if you don't want to sit by babies, you're better off with B1 instead of A60.
Does anyone on this Forum have the SW card...if so, is it beneficial?
So you'd say it was worth it!?
SWA Chase card is the only one I've used for the past 6 yrs or so. Average about $2K in charges every month. Get about 1-2 RT trips from Columbus to Vegas every year. However, I've noticed the number of points for a freebie keeps increasing.
You get 1 pt per $1 charged. Get 2x for SWA charges and Mlife (currently).
I also make all car reservations thru SWA, works great and adds lots of points.
@treyster and @Laurie my issue here is that if I'm booking a flight on SWA right now they offer the $100 statement credit and 10k bonus points with $500 purchases. However, if I sign up just through SWA (w/o) trying to book a flight they offer 25k bonus points with $1000 in purchases. Not sure which to go for...
You can buy points thru SWA website too. Not sure which math is in your favor. You can get some nice mileage out if 25K points if you have short flights
@SoCalRob, if you hold off for a bit they have a 50,000 point offer periodically. As a matter of fact, I think I saw a ink to it on VMB. Let me see if I can find it.
It's only worth it if you will be flying SWA. I thought you were disgusted with them and weren't going to fly them anymore?
edit: Here's the link. 50,000 points with $2000 send in 3 months. Hopefully it will work for you. https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/southwest/2rtfosam1
Note: This is the one with $99 annual fee. I just got my 6,000 points today for my anniversary.
So should I go with the $100 statement credit w/ 10,000 bonus after $500 or just the standard 25,000 bonus after $1k (this one I dont know how long it'll take to be able to book my flight, unless they link my cc number to my RR account...I just don't feel like calling and asking!)
Have you looked at how many points it is for the flights you want to take? For me, 10,000 points doesn't do much since the flights I take are long. Generally a round trip is between 20,000 & 25,000 for me and I just used 32,000 points for a round trip from San Antonio to San Francisco for my son. It might be worth it for you since you are looking for shorter flights?
If I recall correctly, you don't get the bonus points until the statement comes out after you have made the required spend. So, probably 4-6 weeks from sign up? I could be off on that though.
Rob, you need to wait til the 50,000 pt offer comes back. And then get the personal and the business card. Charge $10k and you'll have 110,000 pts which qualifies you for the companion pass. Then your companion will fly for free for the remainder of that year and the next year! (So you can get up to two years of free travel). And you can change your companion several times too.
Here is a good write up about it.
http://millionmilesecrets.com/2014/0...ompanion-pass/
Personally I wouldn't sign up for the SWA CC until the 50,000 pt offer is available.
Dear God....I wouldn't spend 10k in a year...that would not work for me at all....The small 10k offer or even 25k offers work for me because my short travel is only about 9k per round trip...I've already got a bunch of miles as it is. The problem with waiting is I have no clue when it would be that it is going to pop up. Not only that, I wanna get my flight booked before the prices increase. Seems I keep just missing the good prices every time I hold off on booking.
A flight to vegas from san is like 8,800. So ten is low, 25k is better...but...I don't know if I sign up with 25k, how long I'll have to wait for the card to be able to book the flight. Where as the 10k bonus offer is included in booking the flight. Plus the $100 off. I'm assuming with the 25k offer I won't have access to the card/account number in order to charge it to the SWA account right away to book the flight...and thus I'll have to wait for the physical card to book said flight.