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Frontier Unlimited Flight Pass
Earlier in the month we heard that Frontier had green-lit an unlimited flight pass, but the details were slim at best, but now we know the skinny. It will cost $599, you will have to wait to book and confirm your flights until the day before travel, and it all starts on May 2nd 2023. This wouldn’t work for most people, but for $599, I think there could be a market that would bite even if they used it to take last minute trips to Vegas, Chicago, NYC for the weekend.
These all you can fly passes don’t include bags or seat assignments and come with some peak holiday travel black out dates ( think 4th of July weekend, Labor Day weekend, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc. ). This isn’t surprising since it’s Frontier and wouldn’t at face value dissuade me from the pass.
Weirdly, there is a clause that says taxes, fees, and charges apply at the time of booking. Wait… I thought we already the pass. What other charges are there?
At face value, $599 is super cheap for an all you can fly pass, and if you’re prone to booking fun last minute getaways, this could make some sense for you. But, there are only a set amount of passes available at $599, and the other passes are $1999. We don’t know how many are for sale at $599, and this next part is just ridiculous.
THE BIG KICKER! THE PASS AUTOMATICALLY RENEWS! AT $1999 – are you kidding me?!
Up until this point… I’d have almost said screw it, I do this for a living and I’ll bite at the $599. But the auto-renewal feels like a sneaky way to bait people into a $1999 bill at the end of year one.
No thank you!
Frontier GoWild! Flight Pass
- Flights will be available to book and fly starting May 2, 2023
- Flights can be booked and confirmed the day before flight departure
- Flights must be booked at flyfrontier.com
- Flights are subject to blackout periods:
- 2023: May 25, 26, 29; June 29, 30; July 1-5, 8, 9; August 31; September 1, 4; October 5, 6, 9; November 18, 22, 24-27; December 16, 17, 22-24, 26-31;
- 2024: January 1, 15; February 15, 16, 19; March 3, 10, 15-17, 22-24, 29-31; April 5-7, 12-14. Blackout dates for May 2024 and beyond will be posted in advance of accepting any enrollments for pass periods which cover those dates.
- Flights do not include any add-on products (like bags or seats), you can still customize your travel
- Access to all U.S. Destinations, including Puerto Rico
- Taxes, fees, and charges apply at the time of booking
- A fare of $0.01 will be charged for each segment booked
- Flights and seats are subject to availability; last seat availability is not guaranteed
- Travel not eligible to earn miles or status
- Travel qualifies as activity and will extend your FRONTIER Miles expiration
- The GoWild! Pass is non-transferable. The pass holder is the only allowed passenger to travel with GoWild! Pass privileges.
- Your Pass will automatically renew for successive one-year terms unless you cancel
If you’re still interested, You can go here to learn more and buy the pass
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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