Southwest Rapid Rewards - New Promo: Four Bonus Credits Towards Your Next Vacation

Emailed today to my granddaughter:

Hi Irabk's granddaughter,

Looking for a quick and easy way to earn four bonus Rapid Rewards credits this holiday season towards your next free flight*? Book travel for $500 or more in advertised fare (not including Segment Fee, Facility Charge, or Security Fee) by December 31, 2009, and you can do just that!

All you do is register for this promotion, book your travel, and fly between November 5 and December 31, 2009. Then we'll bonus your Rapid Rewards account four credits, on top of the credits you already earn for flying. Just in time to start making your spring and summer vacation plans!

Oh, and don't worry about spending $500 or more all at once. Just spend $500 or more on your flight travel before the end of the year, and you'll have racked up your bonus credits toward your next free flight -- and a great vacation. There's plenty of time!

Now that's holiday spirit, for you. Rapid Rewards-style.

Fine Print:

*The Rapid Rewards Award is free, but travel is subject to the government-imposed September 11th Security Fee of up to $10 per roundtrip.

Terms and Conditions: Only Members who receive this email/offer from Southwest Airlines are eligible for this promotion. Offer is non-transferrable. Member must register for this promotion between 11/05/2009 and 12/31/2009 to qualify and registration must be completed prior to commencement of travel. Valid on new Reservations only. Reservation must be booked between 11/05/2009 and 12/31/2009. Qualifying travel must be completed between 11/05/2009 and 12/31/2009. The sum total of the Advertised Fare (not including Segment Fee, Passenger Facility Charge, or Security Fee) for all qualifying flights during the promotion must be a minimum of $500. Valid on one-way or round-trip flights. Fares paid for other travelers on the same itinerary do not count towards the minimum spend. Rapid Rewards account number must be entered at the time of booking. Member will receive four (4) bonus credits for meeting all qualifications. Offer is not valid with Southwest Airlines Vacations packages. Bonus credits are a one-time bonus. Travel on Award or Companion Pass does not qualify for promotion. Bonus credits do not count toward A-List qualification. Rapid Rewards credit will post to your account within 4 to 6 weeks after the promotion ends. Changes made to the itinerary after purchase may eliminate qualification for this promotion. Promotion cannot be combined with any offer or promotion. All Rapid Rewards rules and regulations apply. FGB11

Just reread the terms.

SWABrian, did anybody bother to proofread this?

Emailed today to my granddaughter:

Hi Irabk's granddaughter,

Looking for a quick and easy way to earn four bonus Rapid Rewards credits this holiday season towards your next free flight*?Book travel for $500 or more in advertised fare (not including Segment Fee, Facility Charge, or Security Fee) by December 31, 2009, and you can do just that!

All you do is register for this promotion, book your travel, and fly between November 5 and December 31, 2009. Then we'll bonus your Rapid Rewards account four credits, on top of the credits you already earn for flying. Just in time to start making your spring and summer vacation plans!

Oh, and don't worry about spending $500 or more all at once. Just spend $500 or more on your flight travel before the end of the year, and you'll have racked up your bonus credits toward your next free flight -- and a great vacation. There's plenty of time!

Now that's holiday spirit, for you. Rapid Rewards-style.

Fine Print:

*The Rapid Rewards Award is free, but travel is subject to the government-imposed September 11th Security Fee of up to $10 per roundtrip.

Terms and Conditions: Only Members who receive this email/offer from Southwest Airlines are eligible for this promotion. Offer is non-transferrable. Member must register for this promotion between 11/05/2009 and 12/31/2009 to qualify and registration must be completed prior to commencement of travel. Valid on new Reservations only. Reservation must be booked between 11/05/2009 and 12/31/2009. Qualifying travel must be completed between 11/05/2009 and 12/31/2009. The sum total of the Advertised Fare (not including Segment Fee, Passenger Facility Charge, or Security Fee) for all qualifying flights during the promotion must be a minimum of $500. Valid on one-way or round-trip flights. Fares paid for other travelers on the same itinerary do not count towards the minimum spend. Rapid Rewards account number must be entered at the time of booking. Member will receive four (4) bonus credits for meeting all qualifications. Offer is not valid with Southwest Airlines Vacations packages. Bonus credits are a one-time bonus. Travel on Award or Companion Pass does not qualify for promotion. Bonus credits do not count toward A-List qualification. Rapid Rewards credit will post to your account within 4 to 6 weeks after the promotion ends. Changes made to the itinerary after purchase may eliminate qualification for this promotion. Promotion cannot be combined with any offer or promotion. All Rapid Rewards rules and regulations apply. FGB11

They don't need proofreaders, they need to have FT vetting.

I received an almost identical email.

My offer is two credits for $250 in spending. And the the end of my email is tagged with FGB12 where yours has FGB11.

Then again, maybe they mean the RR credits can be used for your spring or summer vacation.

Oh, those marketing guys and their purple prose...:p

That's how I read it, also...that you would earn 4 bonus credits during November/December, which could then be used on a spring or summer vacation.

I also received the 4 credits for $500 offer. Unfortunately, I've already booked all of the travel I'm going to be doing between now and the end of the year - none of it on Southwest as their fares were not competitive on the routes I was flying.

I'm not sure why I was targeted for the promo, although if I had to guess, I'd say it's because I used to fly Southwest with some regularity (1-2 times per month) but have not since April.

Our granddaughter has not flown SWA since April

Trips booked wth vouchers appear to count. I'm sitting on $700+ of vouchers. :cool:

Daughter who hasn't flown SWA in a long time, then just one flight very recently and who has no plans to fly again for a couple years, got the $500 offer. Neither wife nor I got anything.

The dates of this offer are such that it likely wouldn't have worked for us anyway. We booked all our November/December travel a long time ago in order to get the best WGA fares we could, or to grab Standard Award seats before they all disappeared.

I know this offer was extended only today - so my apologies if I'm jumping the gun. My daughter, who almost never travels, received the "4 credits for flying $500 worth of travel by year-end" offer. But as a companion pass owning A-lister I got zip. I understand trying to get people to try WN, but a basic rule of marketing is to take care of your good customers. Given infrequent customers a much better deal (1/4 of a free ticket) over good customers (with other travel options) is annoying and bad business. Let's take this to it's logical extreme per the WN marketing dept:

"FREE A-LIST MEMBERSHIP! Offer open to those who have flown fewer than 4 flights last year"

or maybe board flights in inverse relationship to flights flown.

When it comes to treating loyal customers like dirt in the promotions department, "it's on". :td:

WHats the point for posting this promo if we can't advantage of.. Is there a signup link?

WHats the point for posting this promo if we can't advantage of.. Is there a signup link?

Terms and Conditions: Only Members who receive this email/offer from Southwest Airlines are eligible for this promotion.


The point is to share information, and compare offers received. Information is power.

But as a companion pass owning A-lister I got zip.

Ditto here. I just noticed that only my wife got the offer. She always flies with me, either on fares that I buy or (more recently) on companion fares. Only once for a particular promo did I log in as her & buy a ticket last spring.

They should save their bandwidth. She won't be buying any tickets.

Any ideas if using the recent 15% discount code will disqualify a flight from this offer?

I fly with WN twice a week for over the past year. I am a CP and did not receive this offer.

I fly with WN twice a week for over the past year. I am a CP and did not receive this offer.

That is why you did not receive this offer. It was designed to bring back people that have not traveled in quite a while. Both my wife and I traveled on the same trip as the granddaughter, and we are on SWA every 4-6 weeks. Neither of us got this offer.