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: frequentmiler.com/
Frequent Miler on the Air: frequentmiler.com/frequent-mi...
Twitter: / frequentmiler
Flight Award Search Tools
PointsYeah: www.pointsyeah.com/
AwardTool ($20 off annual with code ALLTHEHACKS): allthehacks.com/awardtool
point.me (20% off annual plans with code ALLTHEHACKS20): allthehacks.com/pointme
Roame.travel: roame.travel/
Seats.Aero: allthehacks.com/seatsaero
Points Path Chrome Extension: pointspath.com/
SeatSpy: allthehacks.com/seatspy
AwardLogic: allthehacks.com/awardlogic
PointHound: www.pointhound.com/
Reward Flight Finder: rewardflightfinder.com/
ExpertFlyer (Free Seat Alerts): allthehacks.com/expertflyer
Other Travel Tools
FlightConnections (Find direct flights): www.flightconnections.com/
Flighty: www.flightyapp.com/
TripIt: www.tripit.com/web
Google Flights: www.google.com/travel/flights
Frequent Miler Blog Post: Which award search tool is best?: frequentmiler.com/which-award...
Award Search Tools Comparison Spreadsheet: 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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[@Rhodesters]

Greg has been one of the most influential people in our family's life the past 2 years. The trips we have taken will be long-lasting memories forever!

[@Jupiterfunk]

This man has changed my life. I religiously listen to the frequent miler podcast.

[@getsugatenshoFTW]

Goldmine of a podcast

[@WhoDeanyUnchained]

I totally agree

[@faithsteele4006]

As a beginner, this was a bit overwhelming, but I plan to go back and listen in parts and take notes. As a Lexington native, I definitely laughed at how you played us, but it was true.

[@AliOlshan]

One of the smartest people in the industry. Thanks ❤

[@luannehorne697]

It was great to hear Greg on your show. He and Nick are two of the smartest people in this hobby. I have learned a ton of tips from their podcast and blog! I look forward to hearing Nick on your show.

[@eval.2136]

Thank you so much for this podcast episode! Greg is such a wealth of knowledge and experience!

[@Ecco-ix1yc]

Thanks. Great in depth video. Might have to watch it twice!! Thanks to Greg for mentioning Queenstown. From a kiwi miles and points hacker.

[@The_NomadNinja]

Great tips! This can be complicated to stay on top of all of the various websites but I would agree that Points Yeah is my current favorite to research flights and see which programs offer points transfer deals to save money.
Instead of Flight Connections, I like use user interface better on Flights From. I use it to easily research every route and scheduled flight from every airport. This can be helpful when you are researching flights and figuring out which airlines or routes to use.
I have a few others that made my "Ultimate Gear List" but these two are my favorites.

[@tamwilfred]

Without paying for an upgrade version is Point Yeah, does it lock you down to searching within four days only?

[@jerryi8241]

Great Video! Based on all the tools you mentioned if you can pick maybe 1 or 2 Max what do suggest for someone in P1 mode? Not trying to break the bank here and go overboard and pay for every single one of them. I used to love expert flyer until star alliance was removed as it would search and send you alerts for saver awards. Not sure if the tools you mentioned can find savers, or if you need to know what the saver rate is. Thinking it may be best to start with 1 airline tool and 1 hotel tool. Thanks

[@UdreamWeprint]

Problem is that we don't have these extensive points systems and cards... 😢

[@julioc4978]

Great video,
It looks like for experts and geeks, seats.aero is the winner
I believe calendar and explore combined is the hoy grail, kinda like google flights for awards.
Funny that is these tools become mainstream and awards become crowded, all these tools would lose its effectiveness.
Cheers