Update 10/8/24: The public offer is slated to expire tomorrow 10/9/24 while referral links are showing valid through 10/17/24. Feel free to find and share referrals in this dedicated post by following the instructions there. See also this post for more discussion on timing the Companion Pass.
Update 9/17/24: Now available via referrals as well. Please do not share your referrals in the comments. If I have time I’ll create a dedicated thread later.
Update 9/15/24: Offers are available again. Valid until 10/9/24. Hat tip to reader Joko
The Offer
Chase is offering the following bonus on the Southwest Plus, Premier, and Priority cards:
- Earn 85,000 points after you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. This signup offer is slated to end on 6/26/2024.
Card Details
- Annual fees are not waived the first year
- Card earns the following rates:
- 2x points (3x for Premier and Priority) for every $1 you spend on Southwest Airlines purchases
- 2x points for every $1 you spend on Rapid Rewards hotel and car partners
- 2x points per $1 you spend on local transit and commuting, including rideshare
- 2x points per $1 you spend on internet, cable, phone services, and select streaming
- 1x points for every $1 you spend on everyday purchases
- Get 25% back on in-flight purchases
- The Plus and Premier get 2 earlybird check-ins per year
- Premier and Priority earn 1,500 tier qualifying points towards A-List status for every $10,000 spent, with no limit on the amount of TQPs you can earn
- The Premier personal card earns a 6,000 points anniversary bonus; the Plus earns 3,000 points anniversary bonus; the Priority earns 7,500 anniversary bonus
- The Plus and Premier personal and business cards get a new benefit of 2 earlybird check-ins per year.
- All cards (besides Plus personal and Plus business) earn 1,500 tier qualifying points towards A-List status for every $10,000 spent, with no limit on the amount of TQPs you can earn.
- All cards (besides Performance Business) get 25% back on in-flight purchases.
- Southwest credit cardholders get 10,000 Companion Pass-qualifying miles which brings down their overall miles required to get the pass from 135,000 to 125,000
- Chase 5/24 rule does apply to this card
- How Much Are Southwest Rapid Rewards Points Worth?
- Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Southwest Companion Pass
Our Verdict
This is better than the 75,000 offers we often see, and is an ideal time of year for maximizing the companion pass. This offer is also showing on referrals currently as well (do not share your referrals in the comments below). We’ll add this to our list of Best Credit Card Signup Bonuses. Before applying, check out these 26 Things Everybody Should Know About Chase Credit Cards.
If you are applying for the card, please help out a fellow DoC reader by using their referral link which can be found on this dedicated post. No referral sharing in the comments below.
View Comments (174)
@2 Southwest personal cards showing $400 + 40k via referral links.
Still alive as of 7:30 AM Central on Monday.
Dead now
As of 7:40 am Eastern on Sunday, the 85k personal card offer is still available via previously generated referral links, even though it was supposed to end Thursday.
DPs from previous promotions show that if the application still loads and you are approved, you will get the elevated bonus, even if you apply after the stated deadline.
When I use my wife's old referral link, it says "The offer your are attempting to access is no longer available, you will be redirected to the most current offer. If you are not automatically redirected, click here." But when I click on click here, it just stays on the same page and says 85k. Is this what is happening with yours?
@guest_1935005 Also, if you click my name, you can explore for yourself how my referral link behaves and compare it to yours.
@guest_1935005 No, mine doesn't do that - it is steady on the 85k offer. And when I "click here to apply", the application still loads.
My link is still showing 85k. Posted in the referral thread. Maybe old links still work
Referral still working as of 9:45 am EST
I'm just seeing the 50k now on a newly generated referral.
10:53, still good. Just got mine in lol. Hope it works.
the links are not working.
I can’t get this bc I’m 4/24 right now but I’m curious for the future…. Can you redeem 85k airline points for 8.5k cash? Or is that only for UR points? Thanks!
Lol @guest_1934135 for thinking that 85k points = $8.5k cash. Even if you could do cash, it would be more like $850.
Nope, cant do that with SW rapid rewards points.
UR points would be $850 not $8.5K, but no. Southwest miles though are a fixed value of 1.3 cents per point or so with no blackout dates so very easy to use. Any flight can be bought with points, so say a Southwest flight was going for $130 it would be 10K points.
No. You normally cannot redeem airline miles for cash. And 85k would be $850. Miles often have nominal value around 1 cpp. Not 10 cpp!
Nope. Definitely not. SW points at for SW flights only.
UR points are redeemed at. $.01 rate.
Not aware of a way to redeem SW miles for cash
Offer still available via referral as of 6:15 a.m. ET.
I’m a day late just clicked on the direct offer and it’s 60,000 points instead of the 85,000
If I want to report information about Coinbase doing a survey for launching a new premium credit card how do I share that info here to Chuck?