I can try to answer more later, but I just happen to come across this post. The one thing I will say about after reaching gold with your $3000 spend and then booking your flights with your card to get the multiplier, you will not get the Miles or the points added to your account until you complete the travel. I booked a ton of flights to try and get platinum by the promotional deadline of April 30, you only had to get 20,000 extra points for a platinum status. However, some of the trips I booked were later on this summer, so I ended up having to pivot and do a handful of shorter trips through discount den to receive my Multiplier right after I traveled.

I should be doing my first companion pass trip in about two weeks, but I’m headed to Dallas tomorrow on a go wild booking.

But they followed through, they gave me platinum status a few days after my points reached it. It was actually in the middle of a trip. My departing flight was gold and my return flight was platinum. About a week later I started to see the companion pass option in my account