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April 4, 2024

10 Tips For Booking An Award Trip In 2024

If you’re dreaming of your next adventure and looking to get the most out of your frequent flyer program, you’ve come to the right place.

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July 11, 2023

Lufthansa's A350 Long-Haul Business Class (Avoid)

I recently booked a last minute award trip from Europe to Tokyo. On hand I was very happy that my AwardFares alert notified me that two business class seats became available on the date I wanted. However, on the other hand, it was with Lufthansa, a business class product I haven’t really heard great things about. In any case, I’m always happy to try something new!

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August 10, 2024

The cowtool Alternative With Superpowers

AwardFares lets you search flights to find available award seats in a quick way with modern user interface. In just a few clicks, you can search award availability across multiple frequent flyer programs, setup alerts, lookup seat maps and flight schedules.

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July 7, 2023

Married Segments: Working Out Your Perfect Award Trip (Guide)

In airline travel, married segments are two or more flights between city pairs that airlines sell together as a single bundled unit, rather than as two or more individual segments. This means that the flights must be booked together and cannot be changed or canceled independently.

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July 4, 2023

5 New SAS Routes You Can Book Using EuroBonus Points (July 2023)

Whether you haven’t booked your summer holidays yet, or you are looking for cool places for a quick trip, this post is for you. Earlier this year, SAS has announced over 5000 new routes and frequency increases for this summer, and there are still plenty of seats left to book using EuroBonus points.

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March 1, 2024

Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Partner Redemptions Made Easy (2024)

Alaska Airlines has been rolling out a new search UI for Mileage Plan which currently does not support searching Business and First Class redemptions with partner airlines: it only works for Alaska Airlines. There are no known date or official statement from the airline for when this features will be back.

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September 1, 2024

How To Install AwardFares On Your Phone

AwardFares looks great on mobile, and it doesn’t sacrifice any of the features compared its the desktop version. You can use AwardFares on-the-go to easily set up alerts, perform broad searches and check seat maps.

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June 21, 2023

Singapore Airlines Is Skytrax World's Best Airline In 2023. Here Are Our Favorite Routes.

The results for the 2023 Skytrax Awards were announced, and Singapore Airlines was selected as World’s Best Airline. Even though Skytrax is just one of the awards given in the aviation industry, it’s great to see they recognize Singapore Airlines as the one offering a top-notch service on a modern fleet. Definitely one of our favorites at AwardFares.

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June 20, 2023

New Anonymous Search and 24h Free Trial

We are happy to announce that now it is possible to perform searches with AwardFares without and account! Previously, users needed to register to the platform to be able use the tool.

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June 15, 2023

Pride Destinations You Can Book With Points (2023)

Every year, cities around the world celebrate Pride Month with a variety of events to honor and uplift the LGBTQ+ community. These celebrations vary from parades and parties to concerts and exhibitions. Pride events have become vibrant expressions of acceptance, unity, and love for everyone.

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June 14, 2023

Air Canada Announces Route From Vancouver To Singapore

Air Canada announced its plan to reintroduce nonstop flights between Vancouver International Airport (YVR) and Singapore’s Changi International Airport (SIN), marking a return to the Singapore market after over 30 years! The service will start on April 3, 2024, and operate four times weekly using the Boeing 787 fleet.

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June 13, 2023

ANA Resumes Route Tokyo To Perth

Star Alliance member ANA announced that they will be resuming their route from Tokyo Narita (NRT) to Perth (PER), and gradually opened reservations today. Based on the available data, the airline schedules 3 weekly flights with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. The first flight is scheduled for October 29th, 2023.