I have a brand new one for you today! This is a SUPER exciting one, especially since you can already get cheap flights, making this a pretty valuable one to have. The Southwest Rapid Rewards card will allow you to get FREE flights on Southwest Airlines with your rewards points that you earn on all of your everyday purchases! In addition, there is a sign up bonus available that will give you a BONUS 40,000 points when you spend just $1,000 on the card. Most of the flights we have been looking at are around 10,000 points (one way), so this is pretty much two FREE round trip tickets on just the bonus.
If that weren’t enough, when you earn 110,000 points, you get a COMPANION PASS. This is the most amazing thing ever. A Companion Pass will allow you to book travel for yourself, and add a FREE ticket for a second traveler. My husband and I just did this, and we used points to cover his flight, and I flew for FREE with him. This is good for the remainder of the year in which you earn it, plus the full duration of the following year (that means that if you earn it early in the year, you will get almost all of this year, plus all of next year, almost TWO YEARS of free travel)! That’s a HUGE discount depending on how many flights you can squeeze in during a year. Throw in the 2 free checked bags and Wanna Get Away cheap fares (with NO blackout dates and NO limits to the number of seats per flight purchased with points), and you’ve got some amazing rates on travel.
You will earn 2% on all hotels/cars/Southwest flight purchases, and 1% back on everything else. In addition, you will get 3,000 bonus points on your card anniversary each year to get more free travel. Not looking for travel? You can also redeem for gift cards, on everything from Amazon to Target, Walmart, and more! Click here to get started on your card:
Southwest Rapid Rewards Plus Card – New Member Bonus Offer
In order to get our rewards faster, we enrolled in BOTH the Plus and the Premier cards simultaneously (use two private browsers for best results). We were able to earn BOTH bonuses making the Companion Pass significantly easier to get. Keep in mind that the companion pass is earned with 110,000 points, and you don’t have to “spend” any of those points to get your pass, you just have to have hit this milestone. So we ended up with 110,000 points, got the pass, and then are USING the 110,000 points towards traveling 🙂 If you are able to spend enough to get the companion pass, that is amazing, and if not, you are STILL getting free flights. If you are shooting for the companion pass, I would recommend getting the second card as well, so you can hit BOTH bonuses; both bonuses will add points to your same Southwest account to count towards your pass; we signed up for the Rapid Rewards Plus and the Business Premier Card:
Southwest Rapid Rewards Premier Card – New Member Bonus Offer
Southwest Rapid Rewards Premier Business Card – New Member Bonus Offer
