Originally Posted by shallahwallah

Hi all!

Long time reader, first-time poster. Me and a buddy of mine (Software Engineers) are on our 3rd year of Alaska mileage running, currently working on an app to help people earn elite status, mileagerunning, (corporate elite status promotions, status matches, etc). We're sourcing data from Flyertalk and want to know if there is some demand for something like this.

Think: maybe 9.99$ a year for
AI optimized suggestions based on your past/future planned flights, most flown destinations
(e.g. "With your currently planned trips, you will be XXXX EQM short of silver/gold/plat status by December 31, 2023. Based on your patterns, price, time filters, we recommend the following: 1.JFK->...") personalized from your home airport for cost effectiveness, fare class, time of day, flight time, EQM/MQM earned, airports with lounge access, etc. We've tried flight miles for iOS, and it's fine but~ somewhat incomprehensive. Because we'll try to integrate AI trained on flyertalk data, airline website data, you can chat directly with the app and it'll give you a quick answer to even complex questions. We're even thinking of a beta feature that notifies you when the price of your ticket has gone down (straight from the app, or redirect you to airline website so you can rebook your same/higher fare ticket and get a refund – we've done this with Alaska in the past and received wallet credits towards future flights!). This will do the hard work so you don't have to.

So far, this has saved us over a hundred dollars, and will maybe save many more thousands $$$ and hours of time. Let us know if this is something that you would use. Thanks.