AirTran’s 32 Bonus Credits Expanded from Targeted Offer

November 14, 2012 - FrugalTravelGuy

AirTran Airways A+ Rewards from Chase is now offering a limited-time bonus of 32 credits after a $2,000 spend within three months. This bonus has been floating around as a targeted offer, but it’s now been expanded to everyone. The previous AirTran card offered 16 credits after a $1,000 spend.

32 credits can take you far with AirTran. For 8 credits you can get a one-way ticket in coach and for 16 you can get a one-way business ticket. So this card gets you two round-trip tickets in coach, or one round-trip in business.

Additionally, and perhaps more exciting to some, AirTran credits can be transferred to Southwest in increments of 0.5. When you send over 16, you can get one award ticket.

Southwest flyers now have several credit cards to choose from, though they’re all from Chase. Yesterday, Chase released the Southwest Premier card which has a limited-time bonus of 50,000 points (depending on the fare, that’s enough for three round-trip tickets). As that card and the AirTran cards are both limited offers, these would be the ones to get while you hold off on the regular Southwest card, as that offer is not expected to expire.

Pat F of DCA

I may be missing something, but the Air Tran credit card offer does not seem to be a good deal compared to the Southwest credit card offers of 50000 Southwest points, which are more valuable than 32 Air Tran credits. Since 1200 SW points can converted to 1 AT credit, 50000 SW points are worth over 40 AT credits, if you so choose.

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SW is a better deal. If you’re going to choose between the 2, SW is the way to go. You can then sign up for AirTran in your next churn if the limited time offer is still available.

JSMPHX

Thanks for posting about this. I got the AirTran card last month and met the 1k spend after one month, but called Chase this morning and told them I had heard from a friend that he just signed up and got 32 credits instead of 16. I said I would be happy to make the additional 1k spend to get 32 credits and the two upgrades that weren’t offered when I signed up last month.

The agent I was talking with said he needed to check with someone. I was on hold for about 5 minutes, but it was worth the wait because he came back on the line and said I was now on the $2k spend in 3 months to get the 32 credits, and that my business class upgrades would be in the mail in a couple weeks.
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AirTran’s 32 Bonus Credits Expanded from Targeted Offer

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