Southwest offers free mileage points when you let a stranger rent your car

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It's rare to get airline points outside of credit card plans, tedious consumer surveys, or, you know, booking flights and flying. So a new offer from Southwest Airlines and car-sharing app Turo feels like the ultimate cheat.

Starting this week, if you either book a car through the car-sharing platform or rent out your car on the service, you get points on Southwest's reward program, Rapid Rewards. 

The program offers 2,000 Rapid Reward (RR) points for your first Turo car booking and then 500 RR points for every trip after your first. The big doozy is 10,000 Rapid Rewards points for signing up as a host and having someone book your car for a rental.  Read more...

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