Tips for finding impossible awards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep360 | 5-29-26

About this episode

This episode provides a variety of tips for finding difficult award bookings for travel.

Today's episode will provide a whole grab bag of tips for how to find those impossible award bookings for your award travel goals. (02:32) - Here's a grab bag of techniques, and keep in mind it's often necessary to use multiple (03:09) - Be flexible! (06:48) - Look towards the end of the booking schedule: use points that can book farther out (08:26) - Positioning flights (20:59) - Programs that reserve more space for their own members (22:22) - Programs that reserve more space for elite members/cardholders (24:17) - Programs that allow more awards for more points (26:47) - Married segment logic awards (e.g. san-lax-tyo available, but lax-tyo not available) (35:07) - Consider programs that allow a stopover (39:04) - Award tool Alerts (41:44) - Paid flights Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Mentioned in this episode: Frequent Miler Beginner's Guide https://frequentmiler.com/start-here/ Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast…

People in this episode

Host: Frequent Miler

Topics covered

• award travel
• booking techniques
• flexibility in travel
• travel programs
• points and miles
• stopovers
• flight alerts

Keywords

• award bookings
• travel tips
• points
• miles
• flexibility
• stopover
• flight alerts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Voyascape

Books & works: Frequent Miler Beginner's Guide

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