Chase Southwest card seems like the obvious choice. However, you might want to consider the CSP since you can transfer points (1:1) over to not only Southwest, but United, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, etc. in the event that you want to do some overseas travel or go to a city that Southwest doesn't service. Between United and Southwest, you can get coverage to pretty much any city in the US.
As a lot of folks on the forum have mentioned previously, combining the CSP with the Freedom is cool because it has 5% bonus categories, that you can then transfer over to CSP, so if you can manage to max out those categories, you can build a lot of miles very quickly. Also with the UR mall, you can sometimes find deals of up to 15 pts per $1 spent.
I'm not sure of the bonuses right now for Freedom or Southwest, but CSP is currently offering 50,000 bonus pts for $3,000 spent in the first 3 months. United Milage Explorer is also offering 50,000 miles for $2,000 spent in the first 3 months.
I currently have Freedom, Southwest, United and just got CSP. Also have Ink Cash for business. (My sig is a little out of date.) So multiple cards is definitely not an issue with these guys.
@ForMyBiz wrote:Chase Southwest card seems like the obvious choice. However, you might want to consider the CSP since you can transfer points (1:1) over to not only Southwest, but United, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, etc. in the event that you want to do some overseas travel or go to a city that Southwest doesn't service. Between United and Southwest, you can get coverage to pretty much any city in the US.
As a lot of folks on the forum have mentioned previously, combining the CSP with the Freedom is cool because it has 5% bonus categories, that you can then transfer over to CSP, so if you can manage to max out those categories, you can build a lot of miles very quickly. Also with the UR mall, you can sometimes find deals of up to 15 pts per $1 spent.
I'm not sure of the bonuses right now for Freedom or Southwest, but CSP is currently offering 50,000 bonus pts for $3,000 spent in the first 3 months. United Milage Explorer is also offering 50,000 miles for $2,000 spent in the first 3 months.
I currently have Freedom, Southwest, United and just got CSP. Also have Ink Cash for business. (My sig is a little out of date.) So multiple cards is definitely not an issue with these guys.
I fly quite a bit with southwest. Mainly to get my daughter 2-3 times per year so when I do that I have to purchase a 2 round trip tickets for me and one for her then I do that however many times I get her which is usually 2-3 times per year. So even if I get her twice per year I'm still purchasing 6 round trip tickets!
I've always wanted the CSP cause I do dine out alot and most of the time when I vacation in Florida once per year there comes the hotel stay ETC.
I guess I have some reading to do on how the points system works and what a point value is worth cause I have no idea on that yet. Unless someone really nice wants to give me the breakdown lol! 