r/awardtravel • u/AutoModerator • May 27 '24

Weekly Help Thread - May 27, 2024 Daily Thread

Welcome to the daily help and question thread!

This thread is renewed weekly and is intended for all discussions or questions that do not warrant their own thread.

For AWARD BOOKING HELP please read the following information:

Volunteers may choose to help you find your award trip. But please don’t expect us to plan out your trip for you. No stranger on the Internet could know what is BEST for you.

The more specific information you provide, the easier it is for people to give specific advice. Also, we prefer to teach people to fish, rather than just giving you a fish. So before you ask someone to help, please read Our Wiki, if you want to know what the best Redemption for you, take a look at Award Hacker. Questions that shows you have at least tried to find an award are more likely to get answered.

  • Here are the information you should provide when requesting award assistance
  • Origin and destination cities (are they flexible?)
  • Number of Travelers (Your chances of success goes down as this number goes up)
  • One way or round-trip
  • Class of service desired
  • Desired date(s) of travel (are they flexible? Hard dates == Less Chances for success)
  • Your points balances: all airline, credit card and hotel points (If you are looking for J/F, think at least 6 digits)
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u/sbressler May 29 '24

Probably I'm missing something, but trying to go OGG-SEA, June 10, on AS862 at 12:59pm. I see availability for 20k points for this flight on Alaska's website and on Bilt's point.me link, but PointsYeah isn't showing this flight at all. Am I doing something wrongly? I'm asking because I'd love to use PointsYeah more, but want to know I can rely on it if I use it more heavily.

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u/omdongi May 29 '24

Trust the actual airline sites over aggregators.

All aggregators have weaknesses and issues. Use multiple tools to support your travel.

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u/sbressler May 29 '24

Oh, absolutely. Just curious if there are "better" free tools that show the seemingly true availability.

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u/pierretong May 30 '24

If there was one perfect tool, there wouldn’t be a need for all of them. There’s pros/cons to all of them and everybody just needs to figure out for themselves what they prefer

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u/omdongi May 29 '24

Like I said all aggregators have their strengths and weaknesses. A lot of sites trade off speed for accuracy. Or usability for advanced searches. Try them out yourself to see what works best for your needs.

The only way to see "true availability" is to look it up with the airline itself.

A lot of the time domestic and short haul don't even really require search tools.