Award Travel Tools for Airfare, Rental Cars and Hotels

Airfare Award Availability:

  • Points.Me – Date search of all airlines ASFAIK. Integrates with AwardWallet.com. (paid, $12/mo or $129/yr)
  • AwardLogic.com – Alerts/Date search of all airlines ASFAIK (paid, $4.99 day, $19.99/mo or $199/yr)
  • AwardFares.com – Alerts/Date search of Star Alliance only (paid, $9.99+)
  • Seats.Aero – Alerts/Date “list” of AA, Delta, United, AeroMexico, Avianca, Etihad, Virgin.  (free, upgrade to Pro $7.99/mo. “Search up to 361 days of availability on certain routes, set alerts on that extended availability…”)
  • A[ir]C{anada]AwardSearcher – Searches Air Canada award availability (free, requires registration)

Airfare Award Alerts:

  • AwardNexus.com – Alerts/Date search of all airlines, including JAL (Paid, weird point based system)
  • ExpertFlyer.com – Alerts/Date search a lot of airlines AFAIK, recently lost access to additional airlines data (Paid, $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr)

Hotels Search and Alerts:

  • MaxMyPoint.com – Award availability and alerts (free, more alerts and searching available for $7.95/mo for Platinum)
  • StayWithPoints.com – Award availability and alerts (free, pro plan coming)
  • OpenHotelAlert.com – Cash availability rates and alerts (free, can select specific room type)
  • HiChee.com – Search availability and compare prices for AirBnB, Booking.com, VRBO, and Direct vaction rentals

Monitor AirFare Price Drops:

Monitor Hotel Price Drops:

Monitor Car Rental Price Drops:

Map hotels in a certain loyalty programs

Point and Travel Management Tools:

  • AwardWallet.com – Tracks points balances + travel plans.  Syncs with some cloud email like Gmail.com, Outlook.com and Office 365. (paid, $30/yr)
  • TripIt.com (paid, $49/yr) – Track travel plans.  Syncs with some cloud email like Gmail.com/Outlook.com (not Office 365).
  • Flightly App – Track flights, syncs with TripIt.com. Works with free Wifi messaging on some airlines. (paid, $8.99/month or $69.99/year)

Travel Social Media Contacts (Air, Hotel, Car Rental) – Direct/Private Message

Here are the best social media contact points that I’ve found for private/direct communications with travel loyalty or customer service at the major Airline, Hotel, and Car Rental agencies.

AirlinesSocial MedialLimitations
American Airlines
Alaska Airlines Have to call 800-252-7522 or text 82008 to reservations department for ticket changes.
DeltaNo social media options:
* Desktop and Android
* Apple iMessage
JetBlue
Southwest
AeroPlan (Air Canada) It’s Air Canada

HotelsSocial MediaLimitations
Hilton
Hyatt
Marriott [email protected]
IHG

Car RentalsSocial MediaLimitations
Avis Takes about 12-24 hours for a response
Enterprise
Hertz
National We are unable to add your Emerald Club member number to an existing third party (OTA) reservation. The branch should be able to add the number at the time of pick up or you can follow up with customer care after the rental has been returned.