Award Holds

by borski

Award Holds is an SEO skill for Claude Code, published by borski in travel-hacking-toolkit.

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Install Award Holds

Copy Award Holds into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/tree/main/plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/award-holds ~/.claude/skills/award-holds

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/award-holds/SKILL.md in borski/travel-hacking-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/award-holds
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: SEO — 164 skills

What Award Holds does

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 Holds is cataloged under SEO on DirSkills. Award Holds comes from a repository tagged award-flights, claude-code, flights, hotels and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Award Hold Policies per Loyalty Program

Reference data for which programs allow you to put an award flight ticket on hold, for how long, at what cost, and via what method (online vs phone). Critical for transferable-currency redemptions where transfers take minutes to days to clear.

Data lives in data/award-holds.json. Refresh cadence is 90 days because hold rules change rarely.

Why Holds Matter

When you find an award seat but the points are sitting in a transferable currency (Amex MR, Chase UR, Citi TYP, Capital One, Bilt, Marriott Bonvoy), you need to transfer them to the loyalty program before booking. Transfer times range from instant (most Amex/Chase partners) to 4 days (Marriott Bonvoy to airline partners).

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Award Holds

What else does borski publish alongside Award Holds?
Award Holds is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Alliance Awareness, American Airlines AAdvantage and Amex Travel Portal Search. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Award Holds does, and is maintained by borski in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the borski/travel-hacking-toolkit page.
How does Award Holds compare to other SEO skills?
Award Holds ranks #123 by stars among the 164 SEO skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are App Store Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization and SEO Analysis. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Award Holds against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.