Best Tools for Booking Flights + Hotels with Points & Miles with Greg the Frequent Miler

Award search pros Greg Davis-Kean and Chris share insider tips to save hundreds (or thousands) of dollars when utilizing points and miles to book flights. They showcase practical use cases to help evaluate the pros and cons of the best award flight tools out there, both free and paid versions. They also discuss the best tools for flight trip monitoring and seat alerts.

Greg Davis-Kean is the founder of Frequent Miler, a blog dedicated to helping people maximize their travel rewards and loyalty programs, mostly without flying. He is also the host of the Frequent Miler on the Air podcast.

Resources Mentioned

Greg Davis-Kean
Frequent Miler: https://frequentmiler.com/
Frequent Miler on the Air: https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-mi...
Twitter:   / frequentmiler  

Flight Award Search Tools

PointsYeah: https://www.pointsyeah.com/
AwardTool ($20 off annual with code ALLTHEHACKS): https://allthehacks.com/awardtool
point.me (20% off annual plans with code ALLTHEHACKS20): https://allthehacks.com/pointme
Roame.travel: http://roame.travel/
Seats.Aero: https://allthehacks.com/seatsaero
Points Path Chrome Extension: https://pointspath.com/
SeatSpy: https://allthehacks.com/seatspy
AwardLogic: https://allthehacks.com/awardlogic
PointHound: https://www.pointhound.com/
Reward Flight Finder: https://rewardflightfinder.com/
ExpertFlyer (Free Seat Alerts): https://allthehacks.com/expertflyer

Other Travel Tools

FlightConnections (Find direct flights): https://www.flightconnections.com/
Flighty: https://www.flightyapp.com/
TripIt: https://www.tripit.com/web
Google Flights: https://www.google.com/travel/flights
Frequent Miler Blog Post: Which award search tool is best?: https://frequentmiler.com/which-award...

Award Search Tools Comparison Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...



Full Show Notes

(02:30) Overall Episode Topic Breakdown

(06:41) Important Info to Know Before Using Award Flight Search Tools

(09:27) Essential Award Flight Search Tool Features

(12:34) Why You Should Always Set Flight Alerts

(14:59) The Best Award Search Tools (April 2024)

(20:43) How to Find Which Airlines Fly Direct

(22:45) Paid Features on PointsYeah & AwardTool

(23:33) Review of point.me

(32:48) The Impact of Award Flight Search Tools

(39:11) Roame Travel

(40:09) Flight Discovery for the Best Deals

(44:39) Seats.Areo Review

(53:46) How to get Free Access to point.me

(55:29) More Flight Tools

(59:23) ExpertFlyer for Seat Alerts

(1:00:34) Tools for Trip Monitoring



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