Last night, my wife reminded
me that we should look into booking flights to Portland, Oregon to visit her family for
Christmas. We usually fly Southwest Airlines
because they offer direct flights, free baggage check, and we can transfer our
Chase Ultimate Rewards points into the Southwest Rapid Rewards points
program. Our son will be less than 2
years old so he gets to fly for free.
First thing I did was log
into my account at Southwest.com and search the
flights we wanted. Total cost for 2
round trip tickets in points was 36,268
points and $22.40:
In order to book the tickets,
I needed to transfer 36,000 Chase
Ultimate Rewards points into my Southwest Rapid Rewards account. I went to ultimaterewards.com and requested the
points transfer. Then I logged out of and
back into my Southwest account and the points were instantly available.
We still have Southwest gift
card credit from the American
Express Airline fee credit offer and the gift card balance covered the cash
portion for our flights. And just like that our two free round trip flights to Portland were booked in less than 5 minutes.
If we were to pay for the
same 2 round trip tickets with cash, it would have cost us $597.92!
Booking flights with points
is so fun and easy.
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