Southwest Companion Pass 2015-2016
May 10, 2016, 8:03 pm
#946
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 149
May 10, 2016, 8:28 pm
#947
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 4,872
May 11, 2016, 12:06 am
#948
Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 267
Thanks for the confirmation folks ! Glad to hear it works.
Have you tried adding someone other than your wife as a companion? Does THAT work? hehehe (j/k)
May 11, 2016, 6:53 am
#949
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Chicagoland, IL, USA
Programs: WN CP, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 14,193
We had a guy here once who had a girlfriend as Companion, broke up and started dating someone else and made her Companion, then made up with the first one and switched back. All in a very short time as I recall.
May 12, 2016, 6:43 am
#950
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 476
I applied for both SW personal n business cards. Only got personal approved. Now need more 60k Southwest points. I have 70kHyatt points to transfer from Ink card. Is there's any other option than giving away Hyatt points. Don't mind spending $$ to buy points. Plz advice.
May 12, 2016, 12:14 pm
#951
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 57
I applied for both SW personal n business cards. Only got personal approved. Now need more 60k Southwest points. I have 70kHyatt points to transfer from Ink card. Is there's any other option than giving away Hyatt points. Don't mind spending $$ to buy points. Plz advice.
Try for the other personal card and get a second 50,000 bonus points that way.
May 13, 2016, 12:54 pm
#952
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Programs: Hyatt Platinum, IHG Platinum, SPG Gold, Marriott Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10
That doesn't seem right. Are you sure you met your min spend on March 10th? Don't include the annual fee and subtract out any returns.
If you truly met the annual fee on March 10th and had a statement date (not a payment due date, but a statement date) of March 25th, you should have received the bonus points on that statement and they should have showed up in your Southwest Rapid Rewards account around March 27th. Were any of your purchases with Southwest or a Hotel or Rental Car partner? That would be one way you could have over 2,000 points but not have met the min spend requirement.
If you truly met the annual fee on March 10th and had a statement date (not a payment due date, but a statement date) of March 25th, you should have received the bonus points on that statement and they should have showed up in your Southwest Rapid Rewards account around March 27th. Were any of your purchases with Southwest or a Hotel or Rental Car partner? That would be one way you could have over 2,000 points but not have met the min spend requirement.
May 13, 2016, 1:32 pm
#953
Join Date: Feb 2004
Programs: IHG Spire Elite; Hyatt Platinum; SPG Preferred+; Club Carlson Gold; SW CP
Posts: 674
If you truly met the spend requirement on March 10th...
May 14, 2016, 3:37 pm
#954
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LAS
Posts: 1,525
May 14, 2016, 11:02 pm
#955
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 149
Nope, have no intention of doing a status match, just am not sure yet who will fly with me. I'm not flying until later this summer so there is no rush.
May 15, 2016, 10:30 am
#956
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Programs: Hyatt Platinum, IHG Platinum, SPG Gold, Marriott Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10
. So anyway, I checked yesterday and saw that my 50k bonus points finally posted for my SW Premier card! I was expecting to receive it on 4/14, but got it on 5/14. I'm waiting for the same thing for my SW Plus card now, where I finished the spending requirement on 5/3, but on my statement date of 5/10, I didn't get the 50k bonus. I'm expecting it to post on 6/10 now.
May 16, 2016, 8:44 am
#957
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 476
My personal card was approved with $19k limit. I highly doubt they will approve another personal card. Recon will clearly see I have enough CL and need to use that first.
May 16, 2016, 8:56 am
#958
was jgoggan
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Michigan, USA
Programs: WN 650k+CP; BA 200k; AA 200k; HHonors 450k; IHG 300k Plat; Bonvoy 250k; Rad 225k
Posts: 203
With yours, they then may likely go "Well, you already have a lot of credit with us" -- to which you reply: "Agreed. I really don't need 19k on my other card. Can you transfer $5-10k of that to this new card please."
Done it many, many times.
- John...
May 16, 2016, 9:27 am
#959
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 736
May 16, 2016, 1:49 pm
#960
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 476
You apply for the second card and it will likely get "pending" status. You then call recon and ask the status. They will ask why you need another card and you tell them a reason ("I like to track all of my gas expenses separately" or "I sometimes have to buy things for work that will be reimbursed, so I want them all on one card separate from my personal purchases.") Usually not a big deal.
With yours, they then may likely go "Well, you already have a lot of credit with us" -- to which you reply: "Agreed. I really don't need 19k on my other card. Can you transfer $5-10k of that to this new card please."
Done it many, many times.
- John...
With yours, they then may likely go "Well, you already have a lot of credit with us" -- to which you reply: "Agreed. I really don't need 19k on my other card. Can you transfer $5-10k of that to this new card please."
Done it many, many times.
- John...