After my fiance had signed up for the Barclays US Airways 40k offer, she received a targeted mailer for 50k. I nonchalantly told her that she could call up the bank and ask them to match the offer thinking that this must happen all the time and that Chase is pretty good about situations like these. Apparently I was wrong. I did do some digging on my own and found that Barclays is actually quite stingy when it comes to matching based on comments I had read. However the good news is after speaking with 3 different reps and a supervisor she was able to get a match. I think what helped was that the 50k offer had arrived about 3-4 days after she had signed up. So yes it is possible to get a match but they will make you work for it.