Once I spent the minimum amount to get that new 60,000 point bonus, I received yet another congratulations - this time from the airline saying I had, in fact, achieved the Companion Pass. That makes me a decent person still… I think. I could've made the whole thing up! Instead I only made some of it up. I had been approved! I had been approved?! But he didn’t ask for any proof of the information I gave him. Then I waited anxiously while he put me on hold to determine my future travel fate.Īfter a few too many minutes, he returned and told me congratulations. The operator grilled me with the questions I had prepared for. Like the business card blog suggested, I immediately called the reconsideration line. The online response said they needed more time to process. I applied online describing myself as a sole proprietor. Luckily I found another blog post that laid it all out for this exact situation ( ). I haven’t ever applied for a business card before, so I was nervous. I already had the personal card for a couple of months. There’s no way that Southwest will let people get away with that! Right? As I skimmed through these blog posts, I read a bunch of comments from readers who said they tried it and that it actually worked. All of these points funnel into the same account so it will equal 110,000 points. So all you need to do, after getting your personal card, is to sign up for a business card and get an additional 60,000 bonus points. It didn’t take long before I discovered a solution.Īccording to several bloggers, these bonus points for new cards do count towards the Companion Pass. I had a major Bernie Sander’s moment about it and began googling to see if I could find a way to cheat the system.
It felt like it was just giving wealthy people more free shit. This kind of irked me about Southwest’s Companion Pass. Even if my 50,000 bonus points counted towards it, I’d still never spend sixty grand in a year. However getting 110,000 points means spending $110,000 on the credit card. You could use this whether you booked flights with money or with points AND there was no limit on to how often you can use it.
All you have to do is reach 110,000 points in a calendar year, and then you could designate someone to fly with you for free for the remainder of that year and the year after that.
Then I discovered Southwest’s “Companion Pass” benefit. After researching their point system, I figured this could be good for two or three trips (depending on whether Luke traveled with me or not). It all began earlier this year when Southwest Airlines lured me into signing up for their credit card with a 50,000 bonus point offer. And then I could go reconnect with one of my new found Folsom friends, Kevin (see: See how good I do at “relaxing?”īetween these trips, some folks have inquired how I’ve been able to live this jet setting lifestyle when I keep proclaiming to be a broke ass writer. Plus, I could meet one of my favorite fellow bloggers, Michael James Schneider ( He’s a great writer and has the MOST clever photos on Instagram (see: And then I could do a photo shoot with Kenton Waltz (see: I’ve been enjoying his work on Instagram too.