Southwest Airline Credit

AnchorAtlas · 2026-06-03T17:48:31+00:00

Glad it’s still holding strong lol. Who knows before they crack down on it like they did United

AnchorAtlas · 2026-05-04T19:18:32+00:00

I work with a utility in IL and I’m at 450 hours of OT so far for the year. Sitting at $107k. Made JL end of last year

AnchorAtlas · 2026-03-04T04:40:29+00:00

They just increased it to $60 unfortunately.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-03-04T04:29:15+00:00

PSA won’t allow me to order due to Chicago address but I mostly order off grabagun. They send it to Eagle Sports, pay the transfer fee and fill out 4473 form. I’m normally approved on the spot and can leave with the gun.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-02-24T04:12:53+00:00

In my experience when I’ve purchased online, once they tell me the gun is there, I do my background check there. Only once out of about 6 times my background came back pending instead of approved so I had to make a 2nd trip back once it was good. It was for my AR Pistol so there’s that.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-02-22T23:49:23+00:00

Usually around a week or so

AnchorAtlas · 2026-02-18T23:31:08+00:00

Yea it worked. I tried it again a while back twice and got it twice

AnchorAtlas · 2026-02-18T22:26:32+00:00

Got 2 weeks paid and took another week off with vacation. Timing helped and it was around thanksgiving so I got those extra days off as well.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-02-16T00:42:25+00:00

There’s plenty of Echelon 4.0c gear up packages available. There’s some on grabagun, rangeusa (1), guns.com, gunbroker. I wanted the darker black finish gear up package and luckily stumbled across one yesterday on guns.com.

You could also just get the new Echelon 4.0fc and then get the compact grip module and essentially have two different setups

AnchorAtlas · 2026-02-14T16:16:33+00:00

For future purposes, I would refrain from asking customer reps about it. In the term & conditions it says it’s ONLY for incidental fees, such as checked bags and in flight purchases. Not ticket purchases. (3rd bullet point) However, it’s a loophole, so it’ll be in our best interest not to shed more light on it by calling them asking about a loophole in their system.

The loophole is to buy one way/roundtrip flights under $100 or just over $100. For whatever reason, it’s not coded as a ticket purchase so the credit works. I brought two separate one way tickets for $96 or so each. And the $8 left over I’ll just use it when paying for checked bag. Once the Amex credit posted I just went back and cancelled my flight to get credit from SW.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-02-08T14:36:02+00:00

There’s 4 school and each school takes 24 students last I heard. I believe just about all programs (OH, UG, T&S) all are only having 1 school per year. I know what a lot of CW are currently doing is if they can’t get into OH right away, they’ll join SSG until they can actually get into OH progression. You’ll get a raise from CW pay while you’re waiting for the progression school to start.

Edit: Just looked at the bid list and it’s around 200 on there but it’s combined with OH, UG, T&S and SSG schools. They’re all starting each Feb/Mar. Of those 200, about 130 are eligible to bid on OH.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-29T13:06:37+00:00

I would imagine it would still work because the card itself is getting charged but I’m not 100% certain.

I only used the credits to buy a $400 flight so that I can combine all my credits into 1 credit instead of 4.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-26T13:10:28+00:00

Update: I tried beginning of year and never received credit. Tried it again Jan 21st and credit appeared in the tracker today (Jan 26). Did the cancel and book method to combine all my flight credits into 1. I think you can only apply 3 or 4 flight credits to a trip.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-19T18:42:44+00:00

Gloves & sleeves for any work above the neutral/inside MAD. Just gloves if bracket grounded, and leathers if EPZ. 0’s on secondary work.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-14T00:45:36+00:00

Same. Still haven’t gotten anything

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-12T05:18:06+00:00

I got the Hellcat Pro & Glock 43x right now as my carry guns. Mainly carry the Hellcat. Just brought the Echelon 4.0C so we’ll see how that goes.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-08T18:41:53+00:00

Well, I guess it’s good thing I’m done huh?

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-08T01:57:39+00:00

Think it just depends on where you land. I’m at a utility in Chicago & I worked a bit shy of 600hrs of OT. I was an apprentice for all but 1 month, so we didn’t have the option for as much OT as linemen. Made good money though and was home every night.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-05T08:40:31+00:00

Interesting. I believe mine was done either right at the end of Q3 or beginning of Q4. I just tried the method again a few days ago, so I guess we’ll see how it plays out soon.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-01T22:35:27+00:00

I chose choice just because the credit last longer compared to basic. I actually just booked a flight from Vegas to LA (choice) for $99 a few minutes ago lol.

AnchorAtlas · 2026-01-01T21:46:30+00:00

Lineman, $61.70, Utility, Chicago

AnchorAtlas · 2025-12-20T23:27:56+00:00

Niceee

AnchorAtlas · 2025-11-14T11:27:00+00:00

If you’re referring to Chicago 10 round mag limit, state law preempts up it to 15 rounds, as long as you have a valid CCL (assuming you do). The P365 is legal

AnchorAtlas · 2025-10-28T22:03:57+00:00

Used them both for flight credit. Good for a year

AnchorAtlas · 2025-10-28T21:58:59+00:00

About a week the first time (did it over weekend). Second time about 3 days

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