AwardFares: BEST tool to find Star Alliance availability (2023)

A few years back, during Black Friday, there was a promotion on a tool called AwardFares, a search engine to find award tickets on Star Alliance airlines across all frequent flyer programs. Since the offer was quite aggressive, I decided to jump in and give it a try.

As a EuroBonus member, it has become my go-to tool to monitor and find award flights and key to decide how to use my points. The tool has been growing since 2019 and recently added even more programs beyond Star Alliance, such as AAdvantage and MileagePlan.

is AwardFares Good?

Since day one, AwardFares has been extremely useful, particularly when planning holidays and deciding destinations based on availability. As a SAS EuroBonus member, finding award seats for me and my family is often hard. Don’t get me wrong, the SAS website is good, but it requires effort and hours of manual searches to detect flights with seats that you can book using EuroBonus points.

The great news is that you can get started using AwardFares for free. Simply create an account and start searching. They also offer two more advanced premium plans with extra features: Gold and Diamond.

Key Features

• Search across frequent flyer programs in seconds.
• Modern user interface.
• Set alerts and get notified for the routes you want.
• Easy to search and apply filters.
• Real-time availability for each program.
• The mobile experience is excellent.
• Great customer support.
• Fair pricing with different packages for both casual and hardcore users.

pricing

AwardFares offers three pricing tiers, each of them offering the following features:

1. Basic (free): award calendar, award map, journey planner, hourly availability on award seats, and award release dates tool.
2. Gold (USD 9.99): award search, award calendar, award map, journey planner, hourly availability on award seats, 5 seat alerts, 100 custom searches per day, max 7 searches at once, award availability count, search with stops, per-program availability, cabin annotations, seat maps, award release dates, and flight schedules tool.
3. Diamond (USD 19.99): award search, award calendar, award map, journey planner, real-time availability on award seats, unlimited seat alerts, unlimited custom searches per day, max 30 searches at once, award availability count, search with stops, per-program availability, cabin annotations, seat maps, award release dates, and flight schedules tool.

how to use AwardFares to search Star Alliance Rewards (Video Tutorial)

For those wondering how AwardFares works, I put together this quick tutorial and walkthrough of the premium features before subscribing. The tool does not forward you to your Frequent Flyer program website, but it does query seat availability across multiple FFQTV programs.

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