Southwest Rapid Rewards - How Often Does Southwest Offer Promotions = 3X Rapid Rewards Credits For Flight

I'm wondering how common it is for WN to offer promotions where members receive tripple RR credit? A way to express this might be how many times typically in a year do you see 3x credit?

Right now I'm earning the systemwide double credits which expires 10/31 and the Boston double credits expiring 12/31.

I'm thinking this week of trying to get in a bunch of flights before 10/31 to try to get closer to the 100 CP award. I'll probably end up transferring some hotel points in also.

The disadvantage is the flights this week are a bit $$ approximately $104 per segment yieldingt 3 credits each. Should have booked in advance to get a bunch of $39 flights or better yet done a bunch of flying between 9/17 and 10/15 at $39 fares before the college RR expired.

Just wondering how common it is to be able to get tripple credits on flights with typical WN promotions that they run?

Thanks.

I'm wondering how common it is for WN to offer promotions where members receive tripple RR credit? A way to express this might be how many times typically in a year do you see 3x credit?


Thanks.

Very rarely.

For me here in Austin - Never

This is the first I've seen it (the systemwide double)... But I'm trying to take advantage of it...

I was back and forth on whether I'd use the CP next year enough to really go for it, then decided to, so I'm actually flying 8 uneeded segments this week... All of them at about $50, but it was all on a LUV voucher anyway, so I'm not actually spending banked money... For me, I checked many routings, including triple-ing up through BOS or LGA, but the $ per credit earned was higher that way for me than my back and forth all day to and from STL...

It will leave me at about 11 credits shy of the CP, and I'll have the month of November to pick those up... I was targeting first week of January, now I'm looking at December to make it easier for me to track (if I'm understanding it right, I'll be CP from qualification through Dec 31 of 2010...).

Best of luck!

brkandjfk,
Have you had anyone ask you what you are doing flying all of these segments? I've gotten some very puzzled appearances from the TSA document checkers that have seen me 3-4 times a week but none of them have actually asked me what I am doing. The WN gate agents must be more used to this as I have seen some of the same agents but they don't appear surprised.

Earlier this year I was doing a similar sort of thing (Platinum challenge) at US again kind of a time crunch at the last minute, and I saw the same gate agent probably 3-4 nights in 1 week and I think the last day I finally told him what the deal was as I had to talk with him about changing something about one of my flights.

I was offered triple credits January-start of spring break season 2007.

It was great - I was making trips 2-3 weekends a month around then to see my then fiance, so after getting married in '07, I had enough credits for a few trips we wouldn't had otherwise taken.

I was offered triple credits January-start of spring break season 2007.

It was great - I was making trips 2-3 weekends a month around then to see my then fiance, so after getting married in '07, I had enough credits for a few trips we wouldn't had otherwise taken.

during triple credit 3 years back which became quad credit, I had seven STL-DAL roundtrips (14 segments) per weekend, two weekends in a row. Booked some crazy "turns/connections" (negative 5-10 minute layovers worked more all but one time due to weather!!). I live 1000 miles from STL so had to fly in and pay for hotels Fri/Sat as well. Did all this without missing a minute of work at my full time job.

The Flight attendants thought it was a bit strange, as they were asking the pilots if they were headed back to dallas with them, I'd comment 'me too'. It was also funny to be on a terminating flight #, see on the internet it was at the same gate as the flight headed back to the last city, and just hand the FA my boarding pass for the next flight to scan.

brkandjfk,
Have you had anyone ask you what you are doing flying all of these segments? I've gotten some very puzzled appearances from the TSA document checkers that have seen me 3-4 times a week but none of them have actually asked me what I am doing. The WN gate agents must be more used to this as I have seen some of the same agents but they don't appear surprised.

Earlier this year I was doing a similar sort of thing (Platinum challenge) at US again kind of a time crunch at the last minute, and I saw the same gate agent probably 3-4 nights in 1 week and I think the last day I finally told him what the deal was as I had to talk with him about changing something about one of my flights.

No, I've not had anyone ask... but I've done the multiple segment thing before and simply explained it was a mileage run... ;)