A private award-flight concierge

You earned the points. We'll fly you up front.

You're sitting on a small fortune in points. Using them well is a fourteen-hour research project — so it never happens. We do it for you: the seat that sells for thousands in cash, booked with the points you already have. Ten minutes of your time. Thousands kept in your pocket.

See what your points are worth or start with a $25 Flight Plan
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Your part, per trip
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Hunting we do for you
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Per-point value vs ~1¢ cash back
First-class cabin — cream leather seats and champagne by the window
First Class JFK → Dubai
Cash fare $21,000
With Pointfares 136k pts + $312

You keep

$20,688

97% off — the same seat, the same flight.

Award space sourced across Emirates · Singapore Airlines · ANA · Qatar · Air France · Cathay Pacific

Your savings, estimated

What could your trip cost in points?

Pick a route and cabin. See the cash fare, the points price, and what each point is really worth.

The biggest point values are on international premium cabins. Domestic flights work too — but international is where your points stretch furthest.

Rough guide: 60–120k points covers most international business-class round-trips — and balances from different banks can team up.

Sample routes — we book any route. Don't see yours? Tell us the trip →

Cabin

Published cash fare

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round-trip, all-in

With Pointfares

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points + $0 fees

Cash you keep

$0

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Our fee if you book this: $0 all-in — you still keep $0. Find nothing worth booking? Your $25 comes back.

We'll send your savings breakdown plus the occasional award sweet-spot — no spam. Estimates only; live award pricing is confirmed by your concierge.

Each point = 0.0¢ on this trip — cash back would pay you ~1¢.

Ready now? Get your Flight Plan — $25

How it works

Four steps. About ten minutes of your time.

You do the first step — about ten minutes. We do the other fourteen hours: the hunting, the transfers, the ticketing. Nothing irreversible happens without your say-so.

The arithmetic of the front cabin

The same seat. A different price.

Real award itineraries our members have flown — the same business- and first-class cabin sold for cash, booked instead with the points you already have, at a fraction of the price.

Wing over clouds at sunset, seen from a premium-cabin window

The front of the plane — where a point returns 5–15¢ instead of the 1¢ cash back pays.

Years of nuance, working in the background:

Transfer bonuses

We time your transfers to catch bank bonuses — the same seat for 20–40% fewer points.

Program arbitrage

The identical flight, priced across a dozen programs — we book whichever charges least.

The aircraft trap

A cheap award on a 20-year-old cabin isn't a deal. Same airline, same route — we check which plane actually flies it, and book the seat worth flying.

The tax trap

Government taxes and carrier surcharges swing by hundreds of dollars depending on route and country. We optimize your total cash out of pocket — not just the points.

You never need to learn any of this.

Figures are illustrative of representative redemptions; award availability and taxes vary by date and program. Points are valued at out-of-pocket cost — your savings against the published cash fare.

Why not just do it yourself?

You could. Most people don't have the hours.

The points hobbyists love the chase. If you'd rather just board the plane, here's what we handle that doing it yourself — and the search tools — don't.

Swipe the table sideways →

Doing it yourself A points tool Pointfares

Simple, aligned pricing

A $25 Flight Plan. Credited when you fly.

Every trip starts with your Points Flight Plan — two or three ways to book it with the points you hold: exact points, cash, and the aircraft you'd fly, in writing, within one business day. Yours to keep whether or not you book. The $25 comes straight off your booking fee when you fly — and comes back entirely if we find nothing worth booking. On a typical business-class booking that's about $300 all-in, to keep thousands.

Step one

Your Points Flight Plan

$25

Per trip. Credited in full to your booking — refunded if we come up empty.

    Get my Flight Plan

    Step two — only if you book

    Booking fee, per traveler

      Your $25 search fee is credited in full to this total.

      A real person — not an algorithm

      MF

      Mike Farrell

      Founder & Lead Concierge

      Every request comes to me personally — not a bot, not a call-center queue. I've spent years turning points into front-cabin seats, and I'll tell you straight what's possible before you part with a single point.

      Mike

      Notes from the desk

      Fair questions

      Asked before every first booking.

      Is this legitimate?

      Completely. Award seats are real inventory that airlines release to their own loyalty programs — we're simply better at finding them than most people have time to be. You see the exact itinerary and points cost before anything is booked, and bookings are made from your own accounts.

      Do you need my account passwords?

      Never. Your points stay in your accounts and under your control. We tell you exactly what to transfer, where, and when — and nothing irreversible happens without your explicit yes.

      Do I have enough points?

      If you hold 60–120k points across your cards, you're in range for most international business-class round-trips. Balances from different banks can team up on one booking — tell us what you hold and we'll tell you straight.

      What if you can't find anything?

      Then your $25 comes back and you've lost nothing but ten minutes. If we do find your seat, the $25 credits in full toward the booking fee — you never pay both.