borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

Alliance Awareness maps airline alliances and loyalty programs that can book each other. Use it when checking award travel options or verifying cross-alliance and bilateral partner bookings.

American Airlines AAdvantage checks award miles, elite status, loyalty points, and million miler progress from an AA.com account. Use it when you need a read-only account balance check and may need to enter a 6-digit email 2FA code on first login.

Amex Travel Portal Search looks up flights and hotels in the American Express travel portal and returns cash prices, MR points pricing, IAP discounts, and FHR/THC benefits. Use it when comparing portal redemption value with award alternatives.

Atlas Obscura searches Atlas Obscura near coordinates to find unusual places, filter out mundane markers, and return full details with descriptions and images. Use it when planning trips or adding interesting stops to an itinerary.

Award Calendar finds the cheapest award dates for a flexible route over a date range. It queries seats.aero, groups results by day and cabin, and presents the best options in a calendar grid.

Award Holds lists which loyalty programs let you place award flights on hold, for how long, and by what method. Use it when planning transfers from points currencies before booking an award seat.

Award Sweet Spots flags high-value points redemptions and compares them against cash fares. Use it to identify legendary, excellent, or good flight awards, note devaluations, and check booking caveats.

AwardWallet queries loyalty program balances, elite status, and transaction history through the Business Account Access API. Use it to check points inventory, airline status, and travel planning details.

Bilt Travel Portal Search looks up Bilt Rewards hotel and flight pricing through a public REST API with no auth required. Use it to compare cash and Bilt Points costs or find Home Away From Home properties.

Booking Guidance explains how to book award flights, including when to hold space before transferring points and which programs require phone booking. It is used when a deal is found and you need the actual reservation path.

Cabin Codes explains IATA cabin letters and saver fare classes used to read award inventory. Use it when checking partner-bookable availability on airline and award search results.

Chase Travel Portal Search uses Patchright to search Chase Ultimate Rewards flights and hotels for cash prices, points pricing, Points Boost offers, and Chase Edit benefits. Use it to compare portal value before booking on Sapphire Reserve or Sapphire Preferred.

Compare Flights searches cash fares, award space, and portal pay-with-points options for a route, then combines them into one table with transfer partner optimization and recommendations. Use it when you want the full picture before booking.

Compare Hotels searches hotel and rental sources, then combines cash rates, premium-program benefits, and loyalty stacking into one unified view. Use it when comparing booking options or deciding between hotel portals and Airbnb.

Deutsche Bahn searches German and cross-border train schedules, journey plans, and station departures. Use it for ICE, IC/EC, regional rail, and airport-to-city ground transport planning.

Duffel Flights searches live airline offers through the Duffel API for one-way, round-trip, and multi-city itineraries. Use it when you need current cash fares, cabin details, baggage info, or booking links.

Fallback And Resilience maps each travel search tool to backup options when an API fails, rate limits, or scraping is blocked. Use it to keep a search moving after the first source breaks.

Flight Search Strategy runs parallel searches across flight sources to compare cash and award fares. Use it when you need the best price, route options, or a round-trip vs one-way decision.

Getting Started detects which travel API keys are already set and helps you add missing ones with a local setup script. It also shows sample prompts based on the tools you have configured.

Google Flights Search uses agent-browser to search Google Flights for airfare, schedules, availability, and booking links. Use it to compare economy and business fares, including Southwest cash prices.

Hotel Chain Recognition maps branded hotel names to their chain families and loyalty programs. Use it when search results show properties like Westin, Sheraton, or Holiday Inn and you need to check award rates or compare points vs cash.

Ignav searches flights through the ignav.com REST API and returns structured prices, itineraries, and booking links. Use it for cash fare searches, airport lookup, and market-based price comparison alongside other flight sources.

Lessons Learned summarizes travel-search rules for Seats.aero, Duffel, Southwest, and partner-award checks. Use it before comparing award and cash options or tracing booking paths.

Partner Awards checks which programs can ticket an airline and whether transfer paths make an award reachable. Use it to verify alliance, bilateral, and cross-alliance booking options before recommending a redemption.

Reservation Gardening audits existing travel reservations for price drops, better routings, cabin upgrades, and schedule changes. Use it when checking booked flights or hotels from a reservations file on a regular cadence.