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Craig Joseph

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Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

So seat.arrow is one of my favorite tools because I can search for a very specific set of criteria. And I should start and caveat this by saying that it's probably not for beginners. For example, I use this tool to search for particular planes or particular seats that I've never flown before. So say I want to fly in a very specific seat, like we were talking about Japan Airlines earlier.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

So seat.arrow is one of my favorite tools because I can search for a very specific set of criteria. And I should start and caveat this by saying that it's probably not for beginners. For example, I use this tool to search for particular planes or particular seats that I've never flown before. So say I want to fly in a very specific seat, like we were talking about Japan Airlines earlier.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

So seat.arrow is one of my favorite tools because I can search for a very specific set of criteria. And I should start and caveat this by saying that it's probably not for beginners. For example, I use this tool to search for particular planes or particular seats that I've never flown before. So say I want to fly in a very specific seat, like we were talking about Japan Airlines earlier.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

So you can filter specifically for Japan Airlines first class on a very specific plane, say their 777 that offers the first class. Or if you want to look for Singapore Suites or Etihad Apartments or Qatar Q Suites, these really aspirational business class or first class products, you can filter just for those and it's pretty valuable for that.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

So you can filter specifically for Japan Airlines first class on a very specific plane, say their 777 that offers the first class. Or if you want to look for Singapore Suites or Etihad Apartments or Qatar Q Suites, these really aspirational business class or first class products, you can filter just for those and it's pretty valuable for that.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

So you can filter specifically for Japan Airlines first class on a very specific plane, say their 777 that offers the first class. Or if you want to look for Singapore Suites or Etihad Apartments or Qatar Q Suites, these really aspirational business class or first class products, you can filter just for those and it's pretty valuable for that.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

I also use seats.aero to filter only for flights where those seats are available and no other tool offers that so easily. In addition, seats.aero has a free and a pro version. Both offer alerts. Like we talked about, alerts are super important, but seats.aero does have this one quirky thing

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

I also use seats.aero to filter only for flights where those seats are available and no other tool offers that so easily. In addition, seats.aero has a free and a pro version. Both offer alerts. Like we talked about, alerts are super important, but seats.aero does have this one quirky thing

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

I also use seats.aero to filter only for flights where those seats are available and no other tool offers that so easily. In addition, seats.aero has a free and a pro version. Both offer alerts. Like we talked about, alerts are super important, but seats.aero does have this one quirky thing

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

where if they send you an alert and it triggers, then it removes the alert and you have to sign back up for it. So if it isn't perfect, if it isn't exactly what the travel plans you're looking for, then you have to go back into the website and set it back up again. So not totally ideal. It's not super, super user-friendly.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

where if they send you an alert and it triggers, then it removes the alert and you have to sign back up for it. So if it isn't perfect, if it isn't exactly what the travel plans you're looking for, then you have to go back into the website and set it back up again. So not totally ideal. It's not super, super user-friendly.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

where if they send you an alert and it triggers, then it removes the alert and you have to sign back up for it. So if it isn't perfect, if it isn't exactly what the travel plans you're looking for, then you have to go back into the website and set it back up again. So not totally ideal. It's not super, super user-friendly.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

It takes a little bit of time to learn the nuances of it, but still a very, very powerful tool.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

It takes a little bit of time to learn the nuances of it, but still a very, very powerful tool.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

It takes a little bit of time to learn the nuances of it, but still a very, very powerful tool.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

It doesn't, no. And I should mention that PointEI is my favorite tool. It's the one I recommend the most often, and it's the one that I use the most often. It doesn't do the sort of nitty gritty level of detail that seats.arrow has, but it has a super easy to use interface and lets you customize results in a variety of useful ways, depending on what miles or points you're trying to use.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

It doesn't, no. And I should mention that PointEI is my favorite tool. It's the one I recommend the most often, and it's the one that I use the most often. It doesn't do the sort of nitty gritty level of detail that seats.arrow has, but it has a super easy to use interface and lets you customize results in a variety of useful ways, depending on what miles or points you're trying to use.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

It doesn't, no. And I should mention that PointEI is my favorite tool. It's the one I recommend the most often, and it's the one that I use the most often. It doesn't do the sort of nitty gritty level of detail that seats.arrow has, but it has a super easy to use interface and lets you customize results in a variety of useful ways, depending on what miles or points you're trying to use.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

So one of my favorite features is that it integrates current credit card transfer bonuses into the search results as well. And that's one of my favorite ways to save on my points and miles redemptions. So SayBuilt is offering a transfer bonus to Alaska Airlines. You can actually filter the results to include only Alaska Airlines or its partner airlines that will be part of that transfer bonus.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
The Benefits of Award Search Tools and When They’re Worth Paying For

So one of my favorite features is that it integrates current credit card transfer bonuses into the search results as well. And that's one of my favorite ways to save on my points and miles redemptions. So SayBuilt is offering a transfer bonus to Alaska Airlines. You can actually filter the results to include only Alaska Airlines or its partner airlines that will be part of that transfer bonus.