![]() ![]() AUS to PWM PWM to PHL PHL to AUS – We’ve never been to Portland, Maine or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.AUS to MCI Roundtrip- 4th of July Trip to Visit Family in Kansas (29,108 RR Points).AUS to LAX Roundtrip- Wedding #2 (12,502 RR Points).AUS to LAX Roundtrip- Wedding #1 (17,582 RR Points).So here’s what we’ve booked so far: (Click “Continue Reading” to see our plans) Not knowing what these will be, it also became imperative that we book as much travel as possible using the 110,000 points we’d racked up to earn the CP before that date. And the two year period while we were enjoying cheap/free domestic travel with Southwest would also provide a good timeframe for stockpiling other points that could get us to Europe.Īnother interesting development popped up though, just as we were within grasp of the card – Southwest announced vague but menacing sounding “changes” coming soon to the Rapid Rewards program, set to take effect on April 17, 2015. Knowing that we’d be doing a fair bit of domestic travel, it made sense to go after the Southwest Companion Pass again. With that framework, two things quickly became obvious: one was that we would need a hefty stockpile of points to get four people to Europe by 2017, and second, that we were looking at at least four domestic trips in 2015 already. We want to try to take two of our nieces, who will both be graduating high school in 2017, to somewhere in Europe.We had two friends who were engaged and would be getting married in California in 2015.We wanted to see Alaska, and soon, since climate change is killing it.Every odd-numbered year, we also spend Christmas there. ![]() We visit the hubby’s family in Kansas once a year (either for Thanksgiving or the 4th of July) regardless of other travel plans.Well, the answer to that question goes back quite a ways – you see, we began planning our 2015/2016 travel roughly a year ago so that we would know what credit card offers to go after. Here’s what we knew when we started thinking about it around 18 months ago: So now what? Now that I’ve earned this legendary status in the travel hacking world, what do we plan to do with it? A couple months ago, you may remember that I posted about the Travel Credit Cards You Need to Pay Attention To Right Now, and extolled the virtues of getting two Southwest Airlines Visa cards in order to get yourself 95% of the way to earning a Companion Pass.Īlways a fan of taking my own advice, that’s what we did, and a couple weeks ago we got the long-anticipated email telling us that we’d earned CP status through December 2016.
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