AwardAce: An Awesome Companion for Your Miles & Points Programs
Whoa! I just discovered an incredible resource that will appeal to beginners of our little hobby, and to full-on points & miles addicts. It’s super cool and geeky, so of course I had to share it with you guys.
AwardAce is packed with great features
Meet AwardAce. You can use the site for:
Booking guides to 22 frequent flyer programs
Program guides that give you pertinent info about each program
A Discover function where you plug-in your details to see where you can go
An award pricing calculator that’ll tell you the award price for several programs
Now that I’ve found it, I’ll be playing around with it on the regs!
About AwardAce
Link: AwardAce
Here’s what you can find on this well-organized and feature-rich site.
Booking guides
Step-by-step details with lots of pics on how to book award flights.
Many of the most popular mileage programs have a booking guide
They also have the reservations phone number for each program as well as the exact prompts to enter to get to a booking agent.
So it’s a handy resource that’ll save you from hunting around on the various airline websites (although I like do to that anyway… but I’m a weirdo lol).
Program guides
Different from booking guides, this section includes:
Each airline and its partners
How to book partner award flights
Which alliance each airline is in
Transfer partners
Program type ( if they’re mileage- or distance-based)
Elite status info
Fee schedule
Mileage expiration
Tons of other useful information
Again, everything is very well-organized.
I’m impressed with the amount of useful information in the program guides
Discover destinations
This is a cool feature. You enter:
Your starting point
How many miles you have
In your preferred program
And what class of service you want to fly
And it spits out of the possible destinations within reach.
Cool! Here’s where I can go round-trip from Dallas in Business Class with 110K ANA miles
I personally love this geeky type of stuff because it gets you thinking about all the possibilities. And having the information in such an easy visual format – a map – is so easy to put to actionable use.
If you have transferable points, you could enter all their airline transfer partners to see how far you can go with each one – and then choose where you want to go.
Or if you have a set amount of miles in a certain program, you can play around and see how you can burn ’em.
Or set a goal and then earn and burn. 
