Award flights
Award flights is not currently available in OrientME. We're researching viable data partners to power award availability and intend to bring this feature back once the right partnership is in place. The rest of this page describes how the feature is designed to work.
Award flights watches award availability — the seats you can book with points and miles — across many airline loyalty programs at once. It's the companion to the Flight Tracker: that one watches cash fares, this one watches award space. When it's live you'll find it under Travel → Flights → Award.
Create a watch
Open the Award tab and add a watch:
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| From (required) | One or more origin airport codes, e.g. JFK, EWR |
| To (required) | One or more destination codes, e.g. LHR |
| Label | A friendly name like “Honeymoon in business” |
| Cabin | Economy, Premium, Business, or First |
| Target date (required) | The date you'd ideally fly |
| ± days | How many days either side of the target to search (e.g. ±3) |
| Max miles | Hide options that cost more than this many points |
| Max taxes | Hide options whose cash taxes/fees are above this |
| Max stops | 0 for nonstop only |
| Programs | Limit to specific loyalty programs (e.g. Aeroplan, Flying Blue) |
| Airlines | Limit to specific operating airlines |
| Sort by | Rank results by miles, taxes, or trip duration |
Entering several From or To airports widens the search across a whole city or region in one watch. From, To, and a target date are all you strictly need; everything else narrows the field.
Search now, before you save
Not sure a route has any award space? Click Search now in the form to run a one-off search without saving a watch. You get the same ranked table you'd see on a saved watch, so you can sanity-check the route and tune your filters first.
Refresh and read the results
Click a watch's Refresh to check current availability. OrientME searches your date window across the programs you allowed and shows a ranked table of real trips — miles, cash taxes, total duration, stops, and which program has the cheapest space. The summary keeps the best miles/taxes/duration and how many trips were found, so a glance tells you whether it's worth a closer look. Results persist between visits, so you can compare against the last time you checked.
Open a result for the details
Click a row to expand the full itinerary: each flight's number, times, and aircraft, plus booking links that take you to the loyalty program to lock it in. These details load when you open the row, so the main table stays fast.
Award space is volatile — a great option can vanish in hours. Set a tight Max miles and Max taxes so a refresh surfaces only the deals actually worth booking, then jump on them.
Manage watches
Each watch can be refreshed, edited, or deleted at any time, and paused by toggling it inactive when you've booked or the trip is off. Deleting a watch clears its saved results too.
Award flights is a personal feature, like the rest of Travel. Found the flight you want? Once it's booked, add it to a trip under Logistics to keep it with the rest of your itinerary.
On the go? Award flights is designed to work on the mobile app too — the Travel → Flights screen has an Award (miles) tab to create watches, refresh them, and tap a result through to book. It returns alongside the web feature once a data partner is in place.