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> Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan said Tuesday that the carrier’s executive team thinks the policy changes will drive sign-ups for its co-branded credit card.

Wow. They are making major changes to the airlines to boost a credit card.

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This is actually a huge part of a modern airline's business. There's an interesting Wendover video[1] that argues the airline operations of the legacy carriers is just a loss-leader for their financial functions like credit cards, points partners, etc. United (my home airline) recently adjusted their frequent flier system to basically stop anyone without a credit card or tons of business travel from getting status. Looks like Southwest wanted a piece of that pie.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUduBmvQ_4

Yeah, but how good are their CC's?

With Capital One, I get 2% credit I can use towards any travel (not specific to an airline, hotel, rental, etc). Does any airline's CC give me a better deal?

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