Quote Originally Posted by Blase View Post
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.
Blase is right and the 10,000 points will not be hard to earn. I don't have the SW card yet, but plan on doing it this way to get the companion pass. I currently start all my on-line shopping through the Southwest Rewards and rack up the points that way, that usually gives me enough points each year for RT tickets to Vegas at least once, coming from the east coast, it usually takes about 30,000+/- currently for a flight. Not a bad way to earn the points without getting the card.