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Award booking services (alphabetical):
- Award Advocate - Domestic $100 p/p International $125 p/p, no additional charge for last minute. Changes $50. Also 10% discount for families traveling with children and active military
- Award Booking Service - $25 up front search fee plus $150/ticket & $49 per 30-minute skype consultations (ask anything!)
- Award Butler - Award Search: $79 for up to two passengers; flight info provided but does not include booking. Booking starting at $149 for first two passengers.
- Award Chaser - Search fee starting at $79. Itinerary only - no booking provided
- Award Expert - (MatthewLAX on FT, Live and Let's Fly blog) $150 first passenger, $100 each additional passenger; $250 per person for RTW; $50/ticket booking fee.
- Award Flight Assist - Specialising in Australian frequent flyer programs; from AU$199 for the first passenger, additional charges for complex itineraries and more passengers
- Award Planners - One way $129, additional person $99; Round trip $199, additional person $99; Multi City $249 additional person $149
- Award Travel Consulting - Award Search: $125/person; Booking ticket: $75/itinerary; changes: new trip
- Awardmagic - $179 per person OW/RT plus one stop or $279 per person for three or more destinations
- BoundlessMiles - (Dominik Żmuda/Travelling the World): Booking: starting at $50 per passenger; Changes: half of award flight service fee paid
- CabinChief - Bookings are $49 per pax
- CatchUsFlying - $125 CAD/person for round-trip, $225 CAD/person for complex round-the-world. Consulting available at $75CAD/hour. (loganre17) on FT
- Chatflights - Use app to chat in real time with real travel hackers to book travel for points or cash. Booking fee $295 pp coach and business, $395 pp first class.
- Cranky Concierge - $75 per person each way domestic; $95 per person each way international
- First Class and Beyond - "Concierge-style" bookings. Fee is based on the value of the retail ticket, $250/person minimum.
- Flightfox - Consultative flight searching; fees start at $100 (requires credit card authorization up front)
- Flyermiles - (Graham / YOWgary) $150 + 50 per additional person, $250 for RTW awards. Offers detailed information on how to book your own award.
- iflywithmiles.com - (Mike/Melissa): 150 USD first person, 85 for additional person on same itin. Change fees vary.
- JJ Award Travel - FT Member since 2012 - No upfront fees. Basic one-way or round-trip air award travel consisting of a total of 8 legs or less for the entire itinerary: $250 for the first person and $125 for each additional person. Complex one-way or round-trip air award travel consisting of a total of 9 or more legs per direction is additional. FT members get a 10% discount.
- Loophole Travel - Award Travel Coaching $150 for first passenger and $100 for each additional passenger. Points Earning and MS Coaching also available.
- Luxury Travel Consulting - (Jasper2009 on Flyertalk): $150 per person per ticket
- Miles Help - Domestic: $100 OW; $140 RT/complex. International: $150 OW; $200 RT/complex. $50 each additional person
- Miles Momma Booking Services - Airline Booking: $200 up to 2 passengers. $75 additional passengers. $50 non-refundable up front. Changes $50
- MileValue Award Booking Service - (Scott Grimmer): Booking: $125 per person per award; $15 up front. Full payment required for successful search even if not booked. Change fee not currently listed; previously $79
- PMM Travel Consulting - (Miguel R. Quinones/AwardWallet Blog): Booking: $125 per passenger for the first two, $99 for each additional. Additional charges for complex itineraries. Credit card advice and travel planning services.
- Point.me - merger of services formerly provided by PointsPro (Ben Schlappig/One Mile At a Time) and Juice Miles
- Reward Flyer - Domestic: $50 first person; $25 each additional person. International: $100 first person; $50 each additional person
- SFO777.com - (SFO777 on FT) Booking: $200 first passenger, $100 each additional passenger; change fees vary
- Travel Codex - Per person pricing: $50 for North America award / $100 for International award.
- The Flying Mustache - $100 per ticket; additional fees for more than eight segments. Change fees vary
- The Short Final - $100 per person. $100 upfront deposit that is fully refundable if no itinerary found.
- Travel Is The Point - USA, Canada/Mexico & the Caribbean – starting at $50 per person. All Other International Destinations – starting at $100 per person.
- zainman - FT member since 2009. Booking: $200 first passenger, $100 each additional passenger; change fees vary, consultant services for $ as well
- Zero Hassle Rewards - $100 per person. Discounts for domestic and one-way
Award booking services - a list and some reviews
Jul 29, 2023, 8:57 am
#782
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,634
if someone can find a good booking, I will happily pay the award ticket search fee. Many vendors listed here have their sites down so looking here.
I’m looking to find mileage reward redemptions for a one way flight from EWR to Taiwan (or an adjacent city) around 40k points for economy flight hopefully under 26hrs of travel time around November timing. For some reason I’m having trouble finding any good flights even after searching all carriers since I have a ton of United, American, Chase, Capital One, and Bilt rewards. I even tried partner airlines like Air Canada, Virgin, ANA, JAL, etc, but hoping someone here knows of more advanced searching techniques they can share with me. Would love to see some good business or first redemptions for comparison too.
I’m looking to find mileage reward redemptions for a one way flight from EWR to Taiwan (or an adjacent city) around 40k points for economy flight hopefully under 26hrs of travel time around November timing. For some reason I’m having trouble finding any good flights even after searching all carriers since I have a ton of United, American, Chase, Capital One, and Bilt rewards. I even tried partner airlines like Air Canada, Virgin, ANA, JAL, etc, but hoping someone here knows of more advanced searching techniques they can share with me. Would love to see some good business or first redemptions for comparison too.
Here are links to a few recent threads discussing some of them:
Sep 17, 2023, 7:53 pm
#783
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 155
concierge services worth for award booking?
Hello,
I am looking flight options from Seattle to Delhi (with a week of stopver at London) with awards/points. So far I am searching it myself with point.me.
I came across their concierge services and similar other services too, who charges some fees for this search. I got some questions regarding same.
- Do they search from point to point and pretty much same job which website like point.me works?
- They charge around $200 person and then $200 for another one. I can't understand this part. If they are able to find one ticket with reasonable points and give me, I can book my other two passengers on same route/day, isn't ?
Just trying to understand, if it would make sense to ask them to search for different routes and different dates and they can see more than what I see in point.me.
Thanks
I am looking flight options from Seattle to Delhi (with a week of stopver at London) with awards/points. So far I am searching it myself with point.me.
I came across their concierge services and similar other services too, who charges some fees for this search. I got some questions regarding same.
- Do they search from point to point and pretty much same job which website like point.me works?
- They charge around $200 person and then $200 for another one. I can't understand this part. If they are able to find one ticket with reasonable points and give me, I can book my other two passengers on same route/day, isn't ?
Just trying to understand, if it would make sense to ask them to search for different routes and different dates and they can see more than what I see in point.me.
Thanks
Sep 17, 2023, 8:25 pm
#784
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MEL CHC
Posts: 21,022
Awards for 2 people on the same flight can be 2-3-4 times harder to get. Especially if business class .
Last edited by TWA884; Sep 17, 2023 at 10:29 pm Reason: Referral link is unnecessary after the threads were merged
Nov 13, 2023, 1:06 pm
#785
Suspended
Join Date: May 2021
Posts: 388
I recently used http://www.worldclassperks.com/ with great results
Nov 13, 2023, 1:34 pm
#786
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Hawai'i Nei
Programs: Au: UA, Marriott, Hilton; GE
Posts: 7,141
If you are an award booking service that is currently serving the traveling public, please identify yourself by posting in this thread so that all can benefit from your services. Bonus points to those services that actually identify the owner and the place of business.
Many thanks.
Many thanks.
Dec 7, 2023, 6:49 pm
#788
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,634
Dec 7, 2023, 8:08 pm
#789
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Portland, Or. AA Lifetime Plat, Bonvoy Lifetime Plat, AMEX Plat
Posts: 195
How to reach Jasper2009?
Dec 7, 2023, 8:15 pm
#790
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,634
Did you try sending him a Private Message?
Dec 10, 2023, 11:16 am
#791
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Portland, Or. AA Lifetime Plat, Bonvoy Lifetime Plat, AMEX Plat
Posts: 195
NOPE, that's not what we would want, either!
We use Jasper2009, and have now used him quite a few times, to Europe (including to Oslo, back from Bergen; also to Turin, so not just the "biggies"), a trip home from Hong Kong (twice, actually), and to NZ and back from Sydney.
He's also a travel agent, so now he arranges those for us, too. But the BIG help is with those awards F or J travel.
He has learned "what we like" (and what we do NOT want), so we sometimes will tell him that "if the right flights open up, just grab them for us!". Worst case would be a fee to re-bank, but that has never happened. We've just given him our account numbers and he moves the required points for us, etc.
We had an opportunity to meet him in person fairly early, so that helped a lot with us not thinking of him as a "bot"
and also just a sense of "him". Plus he started having our charge information for the hotel reservations, so....
He's worked out very well indeed.
Here is a link to his website:
Award Bookings - Luxury Travel Consulting Luxury Travel Consulting
GC
We use Jasper2009, and have now used him quite a few times, to Europe (including to Oslo, back from Bergen; also to Turin, so not just the "biggies"), a trip home from Hong Kong (twice, actually), and to NZ and back from Sydney.
He's also a travel agent, so now he arranges those for us, too. But the BIG help is with those awards F or J travel.
He has learned "what we like" (and what we do NOT want), so we sometimes will tell him that "if the right flights open up, just grab them for us!". Worst case would be a fee to re-bank, but that has never happened. We've just given him our account numbers and he moves the required points for us, etc.
We had an opportunity to meet him in person fairly early, so that helped a lot with us not thinking of him as a "bot"
and also just a sense of "him". Plus he started having our charge information for the hotel reservations, so....He's worked out very well indeed.
Here is a link to his website:
Award Bookings - Luxury Travel Consulting Luxury Travel Consulting
GC
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Dec 10, 2023, 11:43 am
#792
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Portland, Or. AA Lifetime Plat, Bonvoy Lifetime Plat, AMEX Plat
Posts: 195
Dec 10, 2023, 12:05 pm
#793
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Hawai'i Nei
Programs: Au: UA, Marriott, Hilton; GE
Posts: 7,141
A while back, I posted a query asking anyone who is in business to identify themselves. Nada.
Jan 7, 2024, 8:50 am
#794
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 3
Hi, I’m in the early stages of planning my RTW honeymoon trip and would like to procure services from someone or an agency that can not only help with the RTW flight booking but also optimizing the hotel award redemptions, etc.
Further, a nice to have would be help setting a point building strategy for this trip and in general as I own a business and have lots of spend to use for point building.
None of the services I’ve seen to date offer the hotel award support, just the flight support. Thanks for any guidance or referrals.
Further, a nice to have would be help setting a point building strategy for this trip and in general as I own a business and have lots of spend to use for point building.
None of the services I’ve seen to date offer the hotel award support, just the flight support. Thanks for any guidance or referrals.
Jan 7, 2024, 12:44 pm
#795
Join Date: Nov 2013
Programs: AA Lifetime Platinum; Amex Plat; Four Seasons; Fairmont; HH; etc.; "Retirees-In-Training"
Posts: 658
VERY sorry to have been AWOL recently.
I've finally logged on to FT after what was a longer interval than I had expected.
Separately, I have also tried to contact Jasper9000, and I've not succeeded.
His contact info (several) seem to be gone, and I admit that I am worried.
We had met him personally, twice about 5+ years ago. Because he is also a regular travel agent, we had had started also using him for some other travel arrangements... and thus he knew "where we were". And it was a city he visited frequently.
So we had arranged to meet briefly at a Club Lounge at the hotel we were staying at, and we did that again a year or two later.Because I wanted a "fast" way to contact him while we were traveling if there were any problems, we also had his personal phone number.
... and that doesn't seem to be working now, either.
So, yes, we are worried.
[He had previously asked that I not make any more referrals for a time. I assumed he was just busy. Perhaps he was ill?]
If there is anyone here who has been in touch with him since November, could you send us a PM through FT?
Or directly to [email protected] ?
And I guess we'll need to find another "awards service"...
Many thanks, and Belated Happy Holidays to all!
GC