The Best Tools to Take the Pain Out of the Points-and-Miles Game
Four new apps and services that’ll change the way you earn—and spend—travel rewards.
A first-class cabin on a British Airways flight.
Source: Source: British AirwaysThe complexity of the points-and-miles landscape is intense enough to make even professionals’ heads spin. Many airlines have abandoned award charts, making it harder to discern how many miles or points you need to unlock that first-class ticket to the Maldives—as well as whether your redemption value is a rip-off or a good deal. Amassing 500,000 Delta SkyMiles for a lie-flat business class seat from New York to Sydney may sound like the points and miles version of shooting for the stars, for instance—until you realize you can get it for 160,000 AAdvantage miles instead.
Even on a more fundamental scale, it’s hard to keep track of which cards to use in order to earn the most points on any given swipe.