Originally Posted by gregorygrady
I've never heard of anybody doing anything like this. You could charge a boatload of refundable tickets on your credit card and then get them refunded after July once you have your CP. However you'd have to pay off your CC with your own money and float the money for several months...........so don't use that strategy with USAir or a similar bankrupt airline. Or you could take the easy way out and use the Hertz Quadruple credit promo for the next month. It really is dirt cheap (almost free) if you take advantage of this on the weekend. I just did it and it cost me $46 for 2 RR credits and I got a rental car for 2 days. Or you can take the other easy way out and stay at a Choice hotel, make it a cheap phantom stay if you must. Those options are much easy and (possibly) cheaper than going through the hassle of maxing out your CC every month to get to 100 credits. I'm sure there are some other good ideas in the FAQs above as well, maybe more people should read them as questions about how to get those last few credits to get an award/CP always seem to come up here................
Couldn't you do the credit card trick with or without having the credits sent over early? I'm talking about making purchases at the end of April that would normally hit the CC bill on say May 25 (and therefore be sent to SW at about that time) and asking Bank One or SW to send over the credits by say May 10 so that I can use them prior to May 25. I swear I read somewhere that someone did this, but I can't find it with any searches.
I think the value of 2 RR credits (plus a 2 day rental) for $46 depends on the cost of your own transportation and the hassle of picking up and dropping off the car every weekend. For me the hassle value is high and $46 exceeds the cost of my weekend transportation without a rental car so I don't think it makes sense for me.
But, I may do this just because it appears that I don't have an alternative to get the CP before the wedding . . .
Thanks for the ideas!