Southwest rapid reward points

[jessiesue]

I want to cancel my southwest credit card. If I cancel, will I lose my rapid reward points? If I don't lose them, do they expire? TIA

 

[CharityLynn]

I believe you have 2 years before they expire.

 

[Frugal Kev]

Luckily they're yours to keep!

 

[MAJPLO]

Two years. Mine just expired last week

 

[Marionnette]

Two years. Mine just expired last week

Ouch! Did you know that as long as you participate in one "qualifying earn activity" during the 2-year period, your points are safe? It's too late now, but just so others are aware: You can keep those points from expiring by

• Flying Southwest and using your RR account number on your ticket
• Buying RR points to add to your account
• Earning points through RR Dining
• Shopping through their online shopping portal
• Booking a hotel or car rental through the Southwest website and entering your RR account number.

I do emiles and e-rewards surveys for RR points. I add about 500 miles every couple of months and it costs me absolutely nothing!

Compared to other airlines, SWA makes it pretty easy to keep your RR points from expiring.

 

[MAJPLO]

Ouch! Did you know that as long as you participate in one "qualifying earn activity" during the 2-year period, your points are safe? It's too late now, but just so others are aware: You can keep those points from expiring by

[*]Flying Southwest and using your RR account number on your ticket
[*]Buying RR points to add to your account
[*]Earning points through RR Dining
[*]Shopping through their online shopping portal
[*]Booking a hotel or car rental through the Southwest website and entering your RR account number.


I do emiles and e-rewards surveys for RR points. I add about 500 miles every couple of months and it costs me absolutely nothing!

Compared to other airlines, SWA makes it pretty easy to keep your RR points from expiring.

I didn't know that. After the fact I figured that there probably was something I could have done to keep them but I didn't realize they were expiring. I was checking flights, noticed my point balance, was surprised it had been so long since i had used southwest, checked flights again a few days later and the points balance was a lonely skinny 0. stupid of me. It wasn't a ton of points so I'm certainly not devastated but it could have been that little extra that keeps us from having to pay the difference on flights once our credit card points come in and we can book.

 

[briand1023]

What r emiles

 

[wiigirl]

I believe you have 2 years before they expire.

This.

 

[jodiey]

Is there someplace where you can see what the expiration date for the points is?

 

[MAJPLO]

Is there someplace where you can see what the expiration date for the points is?

When you log in it shows your points balance on the right side of the screen. It will show your last activity date. Points expire two years from that date. At least that's how mine went.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

You can also do e-miles surveys and once you hit $25 in rewards you can convert them to SWA points. I just did this and all you do is enter your RR acct number and the miles get added to your acct.

http://www.e-miles.com/home.do


Or if you are a online shopper make your purchase through the RR shopping site located on the SWA web page and you can sometimes earn as high as 6 x the points per dollar spent! I believe right now HSN online purchases are 6X the $ spent. I do all my online shopping via the SWA site

 

[MAJPLO]

You can also do e-miles surveys and once you hit $25 in rewards you can convert them to SWA points. I just did this and all you do is enter your RR acct number and the miles get added to your acct.

http://www.e-miles.com/home.do

Or if you are a online shopper make your purchase through the RR shopping site located on the SWA web page and you can sometimes earn as high as 6 x the points per dollar spent! I believe right now HSN online purchases are 6X the $ spent. I do all my online shopping via the SWA site

Wow! Thanks for the tips!

 

[DianeW]

They don't expire if your SW credit card is open and active and accruing points, do they?

 

[MAJPLO]

Another RR question.... If I book my flight now and pay in dollars, can I convert it to use points once the points are credited to my RR account? I'm afraid in the time my points take to arrive the flight prices will go up.

If I book (with $ or points) and there is a sale (Birthday Sale) can I get a rate adjustment for this? Or are sales usually new bookings only?

 

[pjlla]

Thanks for the info about the e-miles site! I am always looking for ways to maximize my SWA RR without having to use the credit card all the time!.....P

 

[jimandami]

Another RR question.... If I book my flight now and pay in dollars, can I convert it to use points once the points are credited to my RR account? I'm afraid in the time my points take to arrive the flight prices will go up.

If I book (with $ or points) and there is a sale (Birthday Sale) can I get a rate adjustment for this? Or are sales usually new bookings only?

I do not think you can convert from dollars to points. You can however, book with dollars or points, and then if the rate goes down, you can get a credit. For dollars, you get the difference as a credit (not cash) that must be used by one year from the ORIGINAL booking date. For points, the difference is just returned to your account.

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

In addition to the other ways of earning SW RR pts, I was offered 12k bonus points each for changing our natural gas & electric suppliers to Energy Plus. After 3 months I earned the bonus points and I still get so many points per $ spent (roughly 500 pts per month) for each month I stay with them. I saw a similar offer with USAirways but it wasn't such a good deal.
The offer came in the mail on a postcard last summer and it stated it was being offered to all SWA card members. Personally, I love my SWA card and earn approx. a one way seat to MCO every other month.

I can't remember the last time I paid for flights for all 4 of us.

 

[bakerworld]

Love the fact that we can have others use our pts. We flew our FL DD home for the holidays on pts and our youngest will fly to FL to visit eldest DD on SW points.