Awesome Award Travel 
A curated list of tools, services, and resources for finding award flight availability, tracking points and miles, and maximizing credit card rewards.
This list covers everything from real-time award alerts and search engines to credit card churning trackers and the blogs and forums where the community trades intel.
Contents
- Award Alerts & Notifications
- Award Search Engines
- Points & Miles Trackers
- Credit Card & Churning
- Booking Tools & Pro Search
- Forums & Communities
- Blogs & News
- Maps & Route Planning
- Contributing
Award Alerts & Notifications
Get notified when premium-cabin or hard-to-find award space opens up.
- AwardClaw - Award availability alerts across major airline programs, with smart filters for premium cabins and partner space.
- Seats.aero Pro Alerts - Premium tier with custom alerts and historical availability data.
- AwardTool - Email alerts for award seats matching saved searches.
Award Search Engines
Tools for finding award seat availability across airline programs.
- Seats.aero - Real-time award flight search across dozens of airline programs.
- Point.me - Award search with point-transfer suggestions and booking guidance.
- Roame.travel - Award flight search engine with cash-equivalent valuations.
- AwardHacker - Cheapest award redemption finder for a given route.
- AwardLogic - Multi-program award search with AI route discovery.
Points & Miles Trackers
Manage balances, expirations, and program statuses in one place.
- AwardWallet - The classic point-tracking dashboard across loyalty programs.
- TravelFreely - Free credit card and points tracker focused on churning.
- MaxRewards - Auto-detects best card to use for each purchase.
Credit Card & Churning
Tools and trackers for credit card sign-up bonuses and rotating categories.
- Doctor of Credit - Comprehensive resource for credit card bonuses and bank account offers.
- Frequent Miler - In-depth credit card and points strategy guides.
- TravelFreely - Track 5/24 status, sign-up bonus eligibility, and reminders.
- CardPointers - iOS app for maximizing card rewards on every purchase.
Booking Tools & Pro Search
Heavy-duty tools used by travel hackers and corporate bookers.
- ExpertFlyer - Professional-grade seat maps, fare class search, and award alerts.
- Google Flights - Powerful filters and price tracking, including matrix-style search.
- ITA Matrix - The pro fare-search tool that powers Google Flights.
Forums & Communities
Where the community trades intel on deals, sweet spots, and strategy.
- FlyerTalk - The original frequent-flyer community, organized by airline and program.
- r/awardtravel - Reddit community focused on award redemptions and points strategy.
- r/churning - Reddit community focused on credit-card churning.
- Milenomics - Long-running blog and community on points-and-miles economics.
Blogs & News
Daily reading for staying current on programs, devaluations, and deals.
- The Points Guy - Mainstream points-and-miles news and reviews.
- One Mile at a Time - Long-running blog with deep airline reviews and program updates.
- View From the Wing - Industry news, miles strategy, and airline analysis.
- Frequent Miler - Strategy-heavy posts on maximizing points.
- Live and Let’s Fly - First-class trip reports and program analysis.
Maps & Route Planning
Visualize routings and great-circle distances for award booking.
- Great Circle Mapper - Plot great-circle routes and distances for any airport pair.
- FlightConnections - Visual route maps showing what airlines fly where.
- RouteHappy - Compare flight amenities and aircraft on a given route.
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Contributing
Know an award-travel tool that should be on this list? Add it!
- Fork the repository
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b feature/NewTool) - Commit your changes (
git commit -m 'Add NewTool') - Push to the branch (
git push origin feature/NewTool) - Open a Pull Request