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Old Jan 9, 2025 | 12:48 am
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Originally Posted by dliesse
I keep wanting to start a thread on the "ideal" program, but haven't found an appropriate forum. One of these days. In one sentence, though, my idea is that economic rewards would be based on dollars spent while other perks would be based on number of trips (not number of miles flown, which has never, ever made sense -- back in the day, someone on a $99 cross-country fare was rewarded more than someone making four OMA-ORD round trips).
Literally WN Rapid Rewards.

https://www.southwest.com/rapid-rewards/tiers/a-list/

Simply fly 20 qualifying one-way flights or earn 35,000 tier qualifying points in one calendar year.
https://www.southwest.com/rapid-rewa...ist-preferred/

Simply fly 40 qualifying one-way flights or earn 70,000 tier qualifying points in one calendar year.
You do like flying WN, right?

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