AwardHunt

Discover where you can fly for free with credit card points

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Discover where you can fly for free with credit card points

3 followers

AwardHunt lists all cities that a given amount of credit card points can take you. More specifically, it gives the amount of airline mileage required for flight awards redemption that can be transferred from points. Currently it supports 4 credit card rewards programs (Chase, Amex, Citi and SPG) and 20 frequent flyer programs.

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AwardHunt

Maker

Hey there! I travel a lot and have quite a few credit cards to help lower the cost. When talking to my friends who aren’t actively participating in the credit card game, I get asked a lot: "so what exactly can I do with the points if I apply for this card?" I decide to work with some friends and created this tool to answer this very question once for all. Basically, it shows you where your points can take you from a selected departure city. Currently, it supports the four most frequently used flexible points for travelers, and not every transferable airline programs are supported. This is not a tool for everyone though. We wanted to build a tool that even the newest people in the credit card hobby can use, and some flexibility and complexity were traded for simplicity and easy-to-use interface. Advanced users might want to check more sophisticated tools such as AwardHacker; I think experienced hobbyists can benefit a lot from their site. Please provide any feedback, positive or constructive. I believe the only way to make a product better is to listen to its users. Happy to answer any questions or comments you might have. Vic P.S. Some domestic routes are not showing up, and that'll be fixed in the future. Also, Southwest results aren't always there since they're not the most friendly airline when it comes to 3rd party support :) Rarely, the points needed could be a bit off if the award chart was updated recently.

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8yr ago

What a brilliant tool! It's convenient for planning a trip. I'm just wondering the tool is ever considering to support for hotels in the near future?

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8yr ago

AwardHunt

Maker

@ylutopia Thank you Alina. So far we are focusing on airline redemptions and adding more supported airlines. For hotels, I recommend that you check out pointimize.com, awardmapper.com, and hotel hustle. All three are very useful when it comes to search for hotel redemption options.

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8yr ago

Does it aggregate across all sources (including conversion possibility and inclusive of conversion rates?)

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8yr ago

AwardHunt

Maker

@apd4real Thanks for the question Anup. Yes, in fact, the four systems of reward points currently supported are all "convertible" points. Our tool took into consideration the transfer ratio for sure. For example, Chase UR is all 1-to-1, Amex MR is mostly 1-to-1, and the SPG 5,000 bonus for every 20,000 points transferred, is definitely included as it is the biggest feature of the SPG program. From time to time there are limited-time transfer bonus on these point systems, we try to keep the tool as up to date as possible, so when there's such a promotion going on, we'll try our best to make it reflect the correct transfer ratio as well.

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8yr ago

Can you give me some points? :P

Pros:

Great product!!!

Cons:

I need more points for free travel

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8yr ago

Great tool of helping newbies to start utilizing points for travel . I have couple questions when I use the site : 1 Since MR converts to BA is 1:0.8. Will awardhunt auto figure the ratio itself ? 2. Confused about using code to search city. When I search Chicago , the code is the first 3 alphabet “CHI “ not airport code “ORD “but search Nashville . It uses airport code “BNA” not NAS. So what will be the best way to search city ?

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8yr ago

AwardHunt

Maker

@chizouen70 Thanks Paul! 1. Regarding points conversion ratio, we've done all the work for you! So the required points on our site do account for the ratio. By the way, good news for you, starting from July 2017, Amex has restored the BA transfer ratio from 0.8:1 back to 1:1, hooray! 2. Sorry for the confusion! At this stage for departure location, we have "city" as the unit rather than airport. For the city with more than one airports, there are usually a "All Airports" code for the city, for example, CHI for Chicago, and TYO for Tokyo. The complete list of airport codes and "All Airports of a city" codes can be found here. http://www.airportcodes.org/ For Nashville, we used the airport code BNA because there's no city code for Nashville, most likely because there's only one airport for Nashville area. Thank you very much for the feedback, we'll work on improving the UI to make it easier to understand.

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8yr ago

You should try it too!

Pros:

wonderful tool!

Cons:

it makes me wanna travel all the time

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8yr ago

AwardHunt

Maker

Lol, Ashley, thanks for the positive review! I think the cons is something all credit card hobbyists can relate to. We have too many points but not enough time to travel! I hope you can benefit from our tool!

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8yr ago

A neat tool! I think it's perfect for my muggle friends who knows nothing about points, so that they won't bother me everytime!

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8yr ago

AwardHunt

Maker

@adu_wu Thanks Adu. I'm glad you can benefit from our tool! You won't believe how often I get those same question. Now I can just copy paste the URL :D

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8yr ago

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