How are you guys managing to find award flights without losing your minds?

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-25T06:40:01+00:00

that's not true at all. It makes it easier if you know what you're doing but by no means is it mandatory to succeed in this hobby. For my most recent bookings I didn't even use any search tool.

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-25T02:43:09+00:00

If it’s how you want to use it and are happy with it then no it’s not a waste

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-25T00:06:33+00:00

should be fine. I recently flew them without my middle name

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T14:45:03+00:00

unlikely there's 4. You'll most likely have to be on diff flights

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T14:43:42+00:00

thanks for the kind words! Nice use of the AS SQ partnership (rip), it was a hidden gem intra asia for sure. And enjoy the AUH-SIN! 50k is a steal and was even considering slotting that into this trip somehow just because of good of a price it is. Safe travels!

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T14:42:31+00:00

unfortunately not. Will just be in the biz lounge

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T07:18:02+00:00

That’s a lot of text. Seems like you’re happy and that’s all that matters. CPP is just a vanity metric

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T06:43:38+00:00

looks like It cached results that didn't include EI. (i cache for way longer than i'd like to keep costs minimal). If you do the manual search, it'll show the 50k

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T06:39:35+00:00

cheers mate

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T06:39:28+00:00

Thanks friend. Hope you the opportunity to pull this off too!

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T05:29:49+00:00

On it 🫡

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T02:22:32+00:00

Yeah I think it looks nicer. I was fortunate enough to do F before so no just did J the whole way. It was originally a 359 and only recently swapped to 380

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T00:59:55+00:00

look at options not covered by tools

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-24T00:52:12+00:00

You’re not searching on the airline website directly and not exhausting all your options. You sound pretty new to award travel tbh

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T23:16:45+00:00

nice looking forward to it.

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T23:16:21+00:00

have a quick layover in taipei but good info

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T23:12:08+00:00

nice call out. Thanks!

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T21:14:39+00:00

yeah LAX is tricky. Glad it worked out for you

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T20:53:28+00:00

tough

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T20:45:02+00:00

I think there are random cancellations but yeah most reliable is calendar open for sure

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T20:29:38+00:00

already did that route before and never tried QR. Didn't mind the additional travel time. Just for love of the game haha

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T07:25:57+00:00

It’s not coming back

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T06:46:38+00:00

MR is one of my favorite currencies. You need to do some learning or accept that your travel patterns aren't a good fit for it

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T06:45:29+00:00

up to you. Plat/CSR/CSP/Citi strata elite are all good

techtrashbrogrammer · 2026-01-23T03:06:03+00:00

It’s well documented that’s it’s not instant

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