Quote Originally Posted by Nhcris View Post
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.
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.