When Roame debuted it was amazing. While point.me was the first tool to offer user friendly flight award searches across many airline loyalty programs, Roame was the first to do it so that results came back quickly. Soon after its debut, though, tools like PointsYeah and AwardTool eclipsed Roame with better features (such as email alerts, and ability to select multiple airports) and similar speed. I’ve largely ignored Roame since then, but Roame developers haven’t been idle. They have made multiple improvements which make Roame a contender… especially for advanced award seekers and/or those looking for Qatar or Singapore awards.
Overview
Most tools have one interface to let users do live searches and another to let users search previously cached results. Roame is different. Roame’s search interface has a simple toggle switch where you can turn on or off SkyView (the name for Roame’s cached results). With SkyView turned off, you can search for award flights from one airport to another, and you can search across 3 days or 7 days depending upon whether you have the free or paid version of the tool; and then the tool searches across many loyalty programs to find award flights that meet your criteria. With SkyView turned on, you can broaden your search to zones. For example, you can search from “United States” to “Asia”. Or you can be more granular with a search such as “West Coast (US)” to “Southeast Asia”. And you can make your date range as wide as 60 days. When you search this way, Roame only searches through its cached results. The Roame folks tell me that they search and cache over 6,500 popular routes every day.
The way Roame uses a single interface for both live and cached searches is innovative, but I find it more confusing than helpful. I suspect that novices will find it especially confusing and will probably incorrectly assume that a lack of good results within SkyView means that there are no good awards available. However there may be great awards available that Roame didn’t happen to cache in advance.
The thing I like about the latest version of Roame is that it has some advanced features that can be really useful under the right circumstances…
Roame Basics
Roame offers a simple and fast way to search in real time for awards from one airport to another. Additionally, with SkyView, it offers a way to do broad searches across their cached results.
- Supported Programs: AA, AeroMexico, Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air France/KLM, Alaska, Avianca, Delta, Emirates, Etihad, Iberia, JetBlue, Qantas, Qatar, SAS, Singapore, Spirit, TAP Air Portugal, Turkish, United, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia
- Subscription options:
- Free. Includes 3 day range for live searches, no alerts, and only an extremely limited version of SkyView
- Friends of Roame Subscriber: Includes 7 day range for live searches, 60 day range for SkyView searches, and 5 email alerts.
- $12.99 per month; or $109.99 per year. Look for a coupon code on their site for anywhere from 10% to 30% off. If you can’t find a better one, save 10% off your first payment with code “FM”
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Advanced Features
Where Roame shines is with advanced features I haven’t seen in other tools:
- Filter by Aircraft. For example you can filter your Singapore first class search to “A380” to try to find Singapore Suites availability (good luck with that — Singapore is incredibly stingy with awards for their first class suites).
- Filter by Airport. This can be used to limit SkyView to results of interest. For example, if you searched from United States to Europe, you could filter to airports in the US you’re willing to depart from and/or filter to airports in Europe you’re interested in visiting. More advanced users may want to use this to look for skip-lagging opportunities because, in addition to departure and arrival airports, it will filter to flights that include a layover at the airport(s) you selected.
- Add a route to SkyView. By creating a SkyView alert that is from one specific airport to another (rather than a broad zone-based search), SkyView will search and cache results for that route at least daily, like they do with ~6,500 popular routes. So, for example, if you want SkyView to monitor Singapore’s Frankfurt to Singapore route (which they might do already — this is just an example), then you can set up a SkyView alert so that route will soon return SkyView results for everyone. When you delete that alert, the route will be removed from future SkyView caching unless Roame decides that it’s a useful enough route to add to their collection. Note that some other tools let you add routes in limited ways. For example, with AwardTool, users can add a route for a particular rewards program; and with Seats.Aero pro users can add a route (direct or non-stop only) for a particular rewards program. With Roame, when you add a route by adding an alert, the route is added to their searches across all rewards programs that they support.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Supports date ranges (3 days for free version, 7 days for paid version)
- Offers email alerts
- Supports programs like Qatar and Singapore Krisflyer, which few other tools support
- Supports filtering by aircraft and airport
- Offers and indirect way to add routes to SkyView
Cons
- Only allows a single departure airport and a single destination airport in any live search. Both PointsYeah and AwardTool offer ways to include multiple specific airports in a single live search.
- Doesn’t currently offer a direct way to go from a cached result to a live search to make sure that the cached result is still valid.
- Difficult to scroll through a full year on SkyView. Some other tools make it easy with 60 or 90 day forward and back buttons, but with Roame its necessary to go back to the calendar to change your 60 day date range each time.
- Doesn’t offer a way to edit alerts. If you want to change an alert, you have to delete it and recreate it.
- Doesn’t appear to offer a way to see which routes are already supported in SkyView
Conclusion
For those looking for an easy to use but powerful flight award search tool, Roame is a fine choice but I still prefer tools like PointsYeah and AwardTool that let you search multiple airports at once. For those looking for an easy way to search and set alerts for Qatar awards, I think that Roame is the only choice. For very advanced users, Roame has a few key features that make it pretty good, but I still think that Seats.Aero is a better choice overall for that crowd.
To see how Roame stacks up side-by-side against other award search tools, see: Which award search tool is best?
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I call bull on the Singapore claim. Show me a single screenshot to substantiate that.
Sure. View the image at the top of this post. That was a screen grab from Roame results
And here’s a new screenshot of a live search result. I double checked against Singapore itself and found the same result:
I indeed stand corrected. I apologize.
That said, award availability is so stunningly bad on Krisflyer as to make this immaterial. But thank you.
Thanks for the heads up! Will check roame out again
I’ve had mixed results with roame. Last night for example, it showed me 2 options for a flight on AA. One was via Quantas (??) program and the other via AA itself. Regardless, I clicked on the book now or whatever and neither website it took me to was able to show the flight. Compared to say, points.yeah, which takes you directly (at least for me) to the page (AA or Alaska, for example) and all you have to do is click select flight” and away you go.
Also, it *seems* you can’t do a roundtrip option? Sometimes roundtrips are priced lower than 2 one-ways, depending on the program (Delta, for instance)
On the Awards search tools comparison page it would be nice if you guys added an additional column to the comparison table that highlights key programs that are missing from each tool. This could be used to highlight anything from award programs that are broadly useful, or programs that are perhaps more difficult to use, but have really good pricing if you are willing to deal with some hassle. Sometimes when I am using these tools, it will return EU Flight results from let’s say aeroplan and I find myself thinking wait isn’t there a different star alliance program that tends to have cheaper EU pricing than Aeroplan
I think these tools have been a negative overall. Making it easier to find awards is a negative for those with more knowledge of the award landscape. I believe that this (and the rise of brokers) is connected to the dis-improvements we have seen in programs such as Aeroplan and the march towards limiting awards to partners
General revenue optimization seems like the biggest driver in the march to more and more dynamic award pricing & availability. If an airline thinks limiting award space to partners or just limiting available awards at all until closer in will allow them to sell more of those seats then they’re likely to try it. And with data analytics being much more widespread I’m sure they can review data to prove if this is working or not for them.
Given that – in an environment of more dynamic and unpredictable award availability these tools are a major help. Without it the dwindling amount of award charts and set award inventory releases requires a lot more manual searching to find the awards you want.
Brokers have been a major hindrance to points pooling/sharing. Aeroplan was very transparent that they rolled back family pooling because of miles brokers using it to sell mile or flights. I don’t see how that’s directly connected to award search tools though.
I’m curious how Roame claims to be able to search programs like Singapore and Iberia and Aer Lingus. They claim it’s live search too. However, when I search dates on Roame and compare it to the actual site, there’s a mismatch.
Roame hasn’t been able to pick up dates that are actually available on the actual program they claim they search.
If the other platforms aren’t able to do it, I’m skeptical Roame can. Some theories is they are using cheap manual labor to help search and inputting it into their data base where it is “cached”.
Given their lack of ethics when they decided to astroturf Reddit last year I wouldn’t put anything past them.
They’re still doing the same on their facebook group page with psuedo success posts from their ‘users’.