And the best benefit aside from the signup bonus: every year that you spend $30k on the card you get a certificate for a free companion award redemption.
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I don't know about that. A lot of these companion fare deals only apply to the most expensive tickets in the class -- often fare you have to buy to get the "free" companion ticket is a non-discount fare that costs more than twice as much as you'd pay just buying two discount tickets in that class. I don't know the details of the BA offer, but I'd check into this before getting too excited about this particular feature.