Increased Southwest Welcome Offers Still Available Through Referrals
These Offers Have Ended
All three Chase Southwest personal cards have public bonuses for 60,000 points that expire today. However, you can still get those same bonuses through referral links for another week. The expiration date on the referral bonuses is January 15th, 2019.
You can read our review of the Plus and Premier card or our review of the Priority version.
Chase Southwest Priority Card 60K Welcome Offer
The Offer: Earn 40,000 bonus points after you spend $1,000 on purchases in the first 3 months after account opening. Plus earn 20,000 bonus points after you spend $12,000 on purchases in the first year
Card Details
- $149 annual fee applied to first billing statement.
- $75 Southwest annual travel credit each year
- Earn 2 Points per $1 spent on Southwest Airlines flights and Hotel & Car Rental partners
- 1 Point per $1 Spent on all other purchases
- 4 Upgraded boardings every year when available
- 7,500 anniversary points after your Cardmember anniversary
- No foreign transaction fees
- 20% back on inflight purchases
- 1,500 Tier Qualifying Points towards A-List and A-List Perferred status for every $10,000 spent, up to $100,000.
Chase Southwest Premier Card 60K Welcome Offer
The Offer: Earn 40,000 bonus points after you spend $1,000 on purchases in the first 3 months after account opening. Plus earn 20,000 bonus points after you spend $12,000 on purchases in the first year
Card Details
- $99 annual fee applied to first billing statement.
- Earn 2 Points per $1 spent on Southwest Airlines flights and Hotel & Car Rental partners
- 1 Point per $1 Spent on all other purchases
- 6,000 anniversary points after your Cardmember anniversary
- No foreign transaction fees
- Earn up to 15,000 tier qualifying points per year with your card.
Chase Southwest Plus 60K Points Welcome Offer
The Offer: Earn 40,000 bonus points after you spend $1,000 on purchases in the first 3 months after account opening. Plus earn 20,000 bonus points after you spend $12,000 on purchases in the first year
Card Details
- $69 annual fee applied to first billing statement.
- Earn 2 Points per $1 spent on Southwest Airlines flights and Hotel & Car Rental partners
- 1 Point per $1 Spent on all other purchases
- 3,000 anniversary points after your Cardmember anniversary
Need to Know
Here are some facts about the cards you should know:
- Southwest points are often worth 1.5 cents each towards airfare. This increased offer is like getting an extra $150 in value.
- Points earned from this bonus DO COUNT towards the Southwest Companion Pass.
- These cards are known to be subject to Chase’s 5/24 rule.
Eligibility
These products are not available to either:
- (i) current Cardmembers of any Southwest Rapids Rewards® Credit Card, or
- (ii) previous Cardmembers of any Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit Card who received a new Cardmember bonus within the last 24 months. This does not apply to Cardmembers of the Southwest Rapid Rewards Business Card and Employee Credit Card products.
Conclusion
These are good offers on all three cards and are especially useful to get the Southwest Companion Pass at a good time, since it will last close to two years. But we have seen better 60K offers in the past, will less spending required. When you stack a personal card offer with the business card offer you would have more than the required 110,000 Southwest Rapid Rewards points needed for the companion pass.
For frequent Southwest flyers the Priority card is probably the best fit with all of the added perks you get and the Southwest credit. For more infrequent flyers the Plus version is the best fit in my opinion since the annual fee is very manageable.
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