Creative ways to get low awards. For instance, when I travel to Europe, I look for the lowest flight virtually anywhere in Europe and then book a Euro domestic flight with cash to get me to my actual destination. I have to search for this city-by-city.

It would be nice to have a tool like this: I enter a city pair, say JFK-IST. I get back this:

75,000 award points OR
45,000 award points plus $89 paid flight