What Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority Credit Card (Chase) unlocks

If you put enough spend on the Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority Credit Card (Chase), you're one step from Southwest A-List — and further spend gets you to A-List Preferred, the tier most of the matches on this page run through. The card earns 2,500 tier-qualifying points per $5,000 spent each year, uncapped, and A-List requires 35,000 TQP a year — so roughly $70,000 of annual card spend gets you there with no flying required. A-List Preferred needs 70,000 TQP, or about $140,000 of annual spend, also with no flying required.

From base A-List, JetBlue TrueBlue accepts a free match into Mosaic 1, its entry Mosaic tier. A-List Preferred opens three more free matches: Alaska Atmos Gold, American AAdvantage Platinum, and United MileagePlus Premier Gold. The United match is a starting point rather than a finish — keeping Premier Gold means flying 10 Premier Qualifying Flights and earning 3,400 Premier Qualifying Points within a 120-day window.

United Premier Gold also feeds a free car-rental chain: it matches into National Emerald Club Executive Elite, which in turn matches into Avis President's Club, Enterprise Plus Platinum, Hertz President's Circle, and Sixt Platinum — the reference below maps every hop.

American AAdvantage Platinum opens a longer, partly conditional route. American's Loyalty Point Rewards program lets you redeem about 100,000 AAdvantage Loyalty Points for World of Hyatt Discoverist status — an earned reward, not an automatic match. From Discoverist, Hyatt matches free into Best Western Rewards Platinum. Discoverist also chains through MSC Voyagers Club Silver into Silver status with Explora Club (Explora Journeys); the reference below maps both legs. Given the six-figure Loyalty Point requirement, this route only makes sense if you were already earning that many AAdvantage points anyway.