Award search tools make it so much faster and easier to find awards that you might have thought would be impossible to book. In this how-to video, we’ll look at PointsYeah’s ability to do a specific live search, a broad cached search, and create alerts for either type of search.
How to find impossible awards with PointsYeah
(03:07) – Challenge: party of 4 to Europe; 2 to Asia; 2 to Australia/NZ
(09:05) – Using Flight Deals for broad searches
(14:47) – Creating an alert in Flight Deals which can be broad, unlimited, but dependent on other people searching
(16:11) – Create live search alerts (which will periodically run on your behalf)
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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The chapter marker indicated you guys would talk about finding 2 seats to AU/NZ but I didn’t see that anywhere in the video. Only chatter about 4 seats to Europe.
Excellent tutorial. Thanks!
The problem with using Flight Deals search is that it is not always accurate. You may set the parameter for 4 passengers and think there are 4 seats available. Then when you click on the live search, the parameters change to 1 passenger. If you look closely in this video, when you guys click on the live search, it only searches for 1 passenger for the flight from ORD to AMS on Lot Polish. Then when you change the search for 4 passengers, there is no availability. Thus, I think it is misleading.
Very useful and well-presented, thanks!