Learn step-by step award flight search techniques in these articles and videos for various airlines and get tips and tricks to land awesome awards. Most search various airline programs for flights to a destination city, some focus on a single airline. These searches highlight techniques that apply to any city. So, for example, look at the Houston-Nice video to learn about award flight searches for anywhere in Europe. We searched every major airline program. We focus on business class flights because they are harder to score. The same process works for economy flights and good results should be more easily obtained. Just click on the titles to go to the page. Happy searching!
Houston-Nice, France Award Search
We search for business class flights with a final destination of Nice, France from Houston for a cruise. We start with the relatively new PointsYeah website and then search United, American, Air France, and Singapore Airlines. Also learn about repositioning flights, the options available, and considering the outbound and inbound flights separately before completing the itinerary.
ANA Award Search – IAH-HND
ANA (All Nippon Airways) offers very attractive award charts, and is known for an excellent business class experience. The award flight search for availability and completing the bookings was successful but was quite an adventure! See what it takes and learn tips and tricks about booking these excellent redemptions.
West Coast to Tokyo Award Search
Learn tips and tricks to Travel Wisely and Travel Well in this step-by-step business class travel award search for flights from the West Coast to Tokyo in September (8 months out). We search numerous websites – United Airlines, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines, Delta Airlines, and Air Canada. The wide range of results is amazing and shows the value of searching many websites.
NYC-Amsterdam Award Search Series
This series searched the various airline program websites for business class flights from New York City to Amsterdam. The first video shows the compilation and evaluation of the results. The individual search videos follow so you can see how to search each program, including specific tips and tricks. We searched United, American, KLM, Air France, Air Canada, Alaska, British Airways, and Delta.
What to Do When the Options are Lousy
Sometimes your award flight search just doesn’t yield great results. Learn tips and tricks on what to do when this happens to you so you can Travel Wisely and Travel Well. In this example we want to fly from Houston to Paris in business class in June when availability isn’t good, and far less than it was a few weeks back (yes, it changes ALL the time). We look at results from American Airlines, Air France, and United Airlines websites in this real-life example.
Southwest Search Basics, Tips, and Tricks
See step-by-step how to do a Southwest award (and $) search and importantly, tips and tricks to make your searches easier and lower your costs in points or dollars. Although Southwest is pretty straightforward for the initial search, this also covers searching for a large family/group, and how to easily take advantage of a lower fare after booking so you can Travel Wisely, Travel Well!
