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Spirit Airlines Status Match – Get 12 months of Status without flying
4/23/23 – This deal ends today at 11:59pm PST
4/18/23 Quick update…I matched Hyatt Explorist and within roughly 10 days I was matched to Spirit Gold.
Spirit Airlines is offering 12 months of mid and top tier status for a fee.
- $49 for Silver
- $99 for Gold
The catch? You need to have status with another airline or hotel program in order to qualify, and if you do, you can match to either Spirit Silver or Spirit Gold and keep that status for 12 months. If you’re unfamiliar with Spirit Airlines, or have never flown them, they are a low cost carrier that charges you for basically everything outside the ticket, but has some nasty low fares. They also offer a unique product called “The Big Seat” which offers 18.5″ of width and 6 extra inches of legroom. You have to pay more for the Big Seat, but the total price can often be cheaper than economy on other carriers.
What do I get with Spirit Airlines Status?
Interestingly enough, Gold status comes with a pet fee waiver…something I’ve never seen with other airlines. If you fly Spirit just one time with a pet, that could offset the $99 Gold Status Match fee since the pet fee is $125 each way
- Silver Status
- Shortcut Boarding and Security
- Redemption Fee Waiver
- Free Exit Row Seating
- Excess baggage weight waiver
- Same Day Standby
- Gold Status
- Silver +
- Free checked bag
- Free Carry On
- Pet Fee Waiver
- Zone 1 boarding
- Free drink and snack
Here’s a look at all the Spirit Elite benefits
How do I match to Spirit Airlines Status?
You need to go here and fill our the information as well as uploading proof of your current status. IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, and Hyatt Explorist all match to Gold. Funny that midtier elite status from a hotel ( that you can get from a credit card ) gets you a better match than some airlines status.
- You’ll need an Spirit Loyalty Account
- 16 hotels
- These are all from the Americas so if you have British Airways status you’re out of luck.
- 16 airlines
Will I do this? I did do it
Yes. I haven’t flown Spirit Airlines in over a decade, so to spend $99 and match to Gold seems like a fun experiment that would likely get offset by a waived pet fee if I bring along our dog. I don’t ordinarily fly lowcost carriers aside from Southwest, but I’m willing to give them a go again, especially if its done with elite status.
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
The Chase Sapphire Preferred is a great starter card that earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based.
Welcome Offer
60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
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.
- 3x on dining
- including eligible delivery services for takeout
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards – Chase Travel Portal
- $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via Ultimate Rewards/Chase Travel
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 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 Portal and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including primary rental car insurance, purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 13 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in the Chase Travel center for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Primary rental car coverage is my favorite
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.
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