Triple Credit and RR Enrollment Bonus - Must Register and Book Today (December 1)
 

WN hit the 1 Million Fan milestone on its Facebook page on Monday. To celebrate, they are offering triple credit on flights booked today for travel during this month. They state you must register through the link on the Rapid Rewards tab of their Facebook page to qualify, but a direct link exists:

http://luv.southwest.com/servlet/formlink/f?kOHpjQTSCB

Offer:
Terms and Conditions:
Additionally, there is a RR signup promo available today that will get you three bonus enrollment credits instead of the usual two. Add the credits received for subscribing to the email lists (and staying subscribed for three months), and that makes five credits total available through this offer.

http://www.southwest.com/1millionfacebookfansrr/

Note that this page contains the direct link to today's Triple Credit promo ("Already a Rapid Rewards Member? Register now to take advantage of this promotion!") that allows you to avoid Facebook if you desire.

Offer:
Terms and Conditions:

I recently booked some flights for later this month. Can I cancel those reservations and rebook with the credit today to take advantage of this offer? I don't see anything in the T&C that woudl prevent this, but thought I'd get a second opinion. Thanks.

Got this today on FB as well. Really tempted to book a quick morning trip from DAL-TUL for $39 each way. ($99.40 with tax) I'd leave at 9:10, get to TUL at 10:10, leave TUL at 11:00 and be back at DAL at 12:00.

Not a bad deal to get 6 credits for less than 3 hours worth of work.

No problem at all. That's exactly what I intend to do if I can get the same fare.

Able to take advantage of this awesome offer! Thanks Southwest!

Getting close to mileage-run territory, a rare occurrence for WN. Some of the alleged "as low as $59" fares are mythical for the entire month. MDW-CLE is $81 one-way until month-end, then drops to $59 for January. So nothing fabulous there.

Wonder if this will stack on the DEN or PHL promos expiring 12/15? Check those terms.

What is the cheapest city-pair nationwide for this deal?

Have some upcoming travel on $59 fares ($69.70 all-in). The same or similar flights, if booked today, feature $97 fares ($107.70 all-in). That's a $38 difference. $19 per extra credit. It's close, but it doesn't seem worth the extra cost.

I have a credit for $32.70 which expires on December 7th, incidentally. I don't think I'll be able to make use of it. If anybody else can make use of it, please send me a PM.

This is great. Procrastination pays... ^

Thanks so much for sharing the link; I never "Like" on Facebook because it usually shows up in your status or on your friends' news pages, but this is a very valuable promotion.

Sure wish it applied to flights after 3/13/11! ;) :(

ditto. I'm in for 3 12-credit R/Ts this month!

What would happen if I book today for a flight this month, then alter the reservation at some point before the trip? Would that invalidate the promotion credit? Not that I plan to do that, just a what if.

My guess: if you travel in Dec and the original booking date for the PNR is Dec 1, you will get 3 credits.

With three times credit, I thought that it is six credits when you travel roundtrip

Is there some extra bonus I am missing to get 12?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the RT involves a connection each way, wouldn't that give the 12 credits?

Only if the flight is separate bookings. A connection within an A-B won't split the trip into two legs.

Example:
SFO-LAS-MDW = 1 flight = 3 credits with the promo
SFO-LAS + LAS-MDW = 2 flights = 6 credits with the promo

In the second example, you would have to reserve two separate flights even if it's the same path.

I have a trip to Denver booked Dec 10-12. At 2:50pm CT I logged into my Southwest account, looked at fares, and $69 each way were available for Dec 11-13. My plans are flexible enough, so I decided to re-book to save about $75 roundtrip.

I went to the facebook page, clicked on Register Now, registered, then went to change the flights. At 3:06pm CT the fares were $163 each way!

What gives?

I wish I had a screen capture of the $69 fares. I am not hallucinating today.

If you flight includes a change in planes from point A to point B, that earns 3 RR credits. You don't earn credit for every segment of the flight, but rather the credit for getting you from point A to point B regardless of how many flights you take.

One roundtrip that is made of of 2 flights each way, or four segments, earns you 6 total credits (e credits each way with the 3X bonus). The only way to earn 12 credits would be to book each segment of the trip as a one way ticket. That way the 4 segments that make up your round trip each earn 3 credits each, or 12 RR credits total.

Thanks for the clarification guys. Perhaps that how doppler will be getting 12 credits per RT.

After a quick glance, I didn't see anything in the terms that mentions not being valid with other promos. I would check with Southwest to make sure if you're planning on trying it. If they indeed stacked, you'd get 1 base credit + 2 bonus credits for this triple promo + 1 bonus credit for DEN/PHL, for a total of 4 credits.

I remember reading in another thread that the DEN/PHL promos should be stackable themselves, so potentially one could possibly get a total of 5 credits for a one-way flight between DEN and PHL (1 base + 2 bonus for triple promo + 1 bonus for DEN promo + 1 bonus for PHL promo).

I can't confirm this, but would be nice if you are planning to book anyway!

Long haul BS should be good for 12 credits R/T. Hot dang.

No, only 8. You get 2 extra credits, not triple the normal amount.

How is that a good deal? $100 + at least four hours of time (and that assumes you live fairly near Love Field) to get 6 credits that are worth maybe $120-150 total... Am I missing something?

I mean, if you genuinely want to go to TUL then this is a great excuse to do so...think of it as sort of a free-ish trip...but as a pure "mileage run" it doesn't seem to work unless my math is wrong.

though I calcualte phl-den would be give 12 credits per BS round trip

1 base credit
1 business select bonus
1 phl bonus
1 den bonus
2 facebook bonus
= 6 each way

Well I'd save about $150 and get triple credits... So I canceled a couple of flights and I'm trying to rebook them. And the site just gives me some error. This is great. Do they just not want me to fly?

Well after talking with two clueless phone agents and being given assurances that swabiz customer support would promptly return my call at midnight, the site finally started working again on its own.

This makes no sense at all. The only possible way it could be worthwhile is if you needed to get some last-minute CP qualifying credits or are 2 credits shy of AL requal.

Shoot, I misread the promotion details in my haste to rebook my flights. 8 is still a good R/T count!

Between the dates of the promotion and my work schedule this sucked. I was looking at maybe doing a day trip to PHL or a mileage run to DEN but that would have given me 8 credits (I needed 9) and if it was $69 or $79 1/w it would have been worth it, but being in FLL, the prices were insane on the return due to holiday travel.

I miss my old job where I could take a day off and travel, but I'm paying my dues now and work 5-6 days a week, so day trips are rarely an option.


To the poster who asked if the price of DAL-TUL R/T was worth the credits, I say yes. BUT that's only if you are going to claim your RR ticket with it. If you have to fly 1 more flight anyway, no. Especially here in FLL, unless you're going intra-state or to like PHX, the WGA fares are insane (and yes, RR ticket seats are limited). My rule of thumb is if it costs me under $100 1/w and I need the credits to earn my ticket, I do the trip. As long as my total costs are less than a RT to a west coast destination, which is always my intended destination for the RR tickets (although I never end up there for some reason!), it is worth it. Especially if I get to go to a new city/airport.

Stackable without an issue:

12/01/10 0962 DEN SLC 4

I assume this was for yesterday and yesterday only?

Bummer

Has Anyone Gotten The Bonus and Made a Change?
 

Just wondering how people are doing with this. I canceled a trip and rebooked that day to get the bonus (even saved $10). Now I may have to change my return. Has anybody run into problems getting the extra credits after a change?

I did the same thing, canceled what i had and re-booked. I see that my regular credit has just posted, but I don't see the extra credit yet...

I flew my first flight purchased with this promotion last night. My original flight was delayed by 2 hours, so I flew standby on the one before it (which was also delayed by about 1.5 hours). This morning, I had one credit in my account. I called customer service and she told me that I would receive one credit for my flight, with additional promotional credits issued by RR office in a few days. So... that's what I'm at. She also told me it shouldn't matter that I flew standby, because the delay was their fault.

Anyone have immediate credit issued?

I'm fairly certain that she's wrong and that you'll need to sort this out. My credits appeared immediately (3 credits instead of the usual 1), so it appears that something happened when your reservation was changed.

Hmmm I wonder if I should wait until after my outbound flight to change my return? That way I'll at least get the bonus for the first flight, in case the change ruins the bonus for the the second one.

That is if the canceling and rebooking thing works in the first place.

Do NOT make a change if you want the 3x credit
 

I rebooked/refared several flights on Dec 1 to take advantage of this one day promo. I've received the 3 credits/flight twice and "lost" (only received one credit) the bonus on one flight that I changed after Dec 1 (which was booked on Dec 1).

From the T&C:

Changes made to the itinerary after purchase may eliminate qualification for this promotion

Same. Mine are showing up as 2 and 3.

So, I flew my return trip last night (with no changes to my itinerary despite my 1.5 hr delay), and this morning only had one credit posted again. I called RR desk (as suggested by the main customer service number) and was told that I never registered for this promotion, or that I purchased the flight before registering. Which can't be true - I know I definitely registered before buying because 1) the only reason I bought the flights on SW was because of the promotion, and 2) I tried registering a second time once I registered the first time because I don't trust their system and was given the error that I had already registered under my RR#.

I bought 4 flights for this month's holiday travel and it will be very unfortunate for me if they continue to tell me that I never registered when I know I did :( Any tips on how to convince them that I know what I'm talking about, when I never received any confirmation emails (like AA sends) etc, and basically have no proof that I even registered?