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. See how to search a specific airline and comprehensive searches of various airline programs for a destination city. These searches highlight techniques that apply to any city or class of service. Applicable airlines change with location. 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. Scoring business class flights is harder, so we focus on those. Search economy flights with the same process and good results should be more easily obtained. Just click on the titles to go to the page. Happy searching!
Award Flight Searches by Airline
Award Flight Searches by Destination
Europe
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.
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.
Asia
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.
Award Flight Search Tips
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.