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

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Chris Hutchins

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

#166: 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. Link to Full Show Notes: https://allthehacks.com/greg-frequent-miler-flight-award-tools Partner Deals Superhuman: Free month of the fastest and best email with code ALLTHEHACKS Bilt Rewards: Earn the most valuable points when you pay rent NetSuite: Get a one-of-a-kind flexible financing program Gelt: Skip the waitlist on personalized tax guidance to maximize your wealth DeleteMe: 20% off removing you and your family's personal info from the web For all the deals, discounts and promo codes from our partners, go to: allthehacks.com/deals Resources Mentioned Greg Davis-Kean: Frequent Miler | Frequent Miler on the Air | Twitter Flight Award Search Tools PointsYeah AwardTool ($20 off annual with code ALLTHEHACKS) point.me (20% off annual plans with code ALLTHEHACKS20) Roame.travel Seats.Aero Points Path Chrome Extension SeatSpy AwardLogic PointHound Reward Flight Finder ExpertFlyer (Free Seat Alerts) Other Travel Tools FlightConnections (Find direct flights) Flighty TripIt Google Flights Frequent Miler Blog Post: Which award search tool is best? Award Search Tools Comparison Spreadsheet 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 Connect with All the Hacks All the Hacks: Newsletter | Website | Membership | Email Chris Hutchins: Twitter | Instagram | Website | LinkedIn Editor’s Note: The content on this page is accurate as of the posting date; however, some of our partner offers may have expired. Opinions expressed here are the author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, hotel, airline, or other entity. This content has not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of the entities included within the post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to all the hacks a show about upgrading your life money and travel.
0:05.6	I'm your host Chris Hutchins and today we're going to go really deep to help make sure you know
0:09.8	the easiest and best ways to save hundreds or even thousands of dollars when it comes
0:14.3	to booking travel with points.
0:16.4	We're going to do that by giving you a full rundown of all the different tools that exist to make
0:20.7	the process easier.
0:22.2	We'll break down the different use cases,
0:24.4	free and paid tools, they're pros and cons, and share some insider tips to help you get the
0:28.8	best deals. And who better to join me than the author of one of the best blog posts on the topic,
0:34.5	Greg Davis Keene, the founder of the Frequent Myler blog and podcast.
0:38.8	Like me, Greg has earned millions of points, traveled the world for free, usually an amazing business and
0:44.0	first-class cabins, and loves sharing all his hacks and tricks with everyone so
0:48.6	they can do the same. In addition to all the best flight search tools, we also covered award search tools for hotels,
0:55.2	but the entire conversation was already so long,
0:58.0	so I'm gonna release the hotel part on Saturday.
1:00.6	So stay tuned and let's jump into all the best flight award search tools right after this.
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