travel-hacker

alliances

Airline alliance membership (Star Alliance, oneworld, SkyTeam) and cross-alliance booking relationships. Maps which loyalty programs book which airlines, including bilateral partnerships outside alliances.

american-airlines

Check American Airlines AAdvantage balance, elite status, and loyalty points via Patchright. Handles email 2FA with 6-box code entry. Uses persistent browser profiles to skip 2FA on subsequent runs.

amex-travel

Search Amex travel portal for cash prices, MR points pricing, IAP discounts, and FHR/THC hotel benefits via Patchright. Use when comparing pay-with-points portal pricing to award alternatives.

atlas-obscura

Search Atlas Obscura for weird, wonderful, and hidden gem places near any destination. Find the interesting stuff, not boring plaques. Search by coordinates, get full details with descriptions and images.

award-calendar

Find the cheapest award dates for a route over a date range. Searches seats.aero across all programs, groups by date, and shows a calendar grid of the best deals. Use when dates are flexible and you want to find the sweet spot.

award-holds

Per-program rules for placing award flights on hold before transferring points. Covers programs with holds (AA, Lufthansa, Flying Blue, Cathay, Turkish, Virgin Atlantic, ANA, Emirates, EVA Air) and those without. Includes transfer-speed reference.

Data & Documents Featured

award-sweet-spots

Catalog of high-value award redemptions where points dramatically outvalue cash. Tiered by legendary/excellent/good with current rates, devaluation history, and booking caveats. Includes Oceania and South Pacific plays (Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji) and transatlantic business-class sweet spots.

awardwallet

Query AwardWallet for loyalty program balances, elite status, and transaction history. Use when checking points inventory, airline status, or planning trips on points.

bilt

Search Bilt Rewards travel portal for cash and Bilt Points pricing on hotels and flights. Public REST API, no auth required. Includes Home Away From Home (HaFH) properties with $300+ benefits.

Web & Frontend Featured

booking-guidance

Step-by-step guidance for booking award flights. Covers the hold-before-transfer rule, phone numbers for major programs, and partner award booking workflows.

cabin-codes

IATA cabin codes (F/J/W/Y) and saver fare class codes (X/I/O) for reading award inventory and determining partner-bookable availability.

chase-travel

Search Chase UR travel portal via Patchright for cash prices, points pricing, Points Boost offers, and Chase Edit hotel benefits. Use for pay-with-points portal comparison on Sapphire Reserve/Preferred.

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compare-flights

Unified flight comparison across cash (Duffel, Ignav), award (seats.aero), and portal (Chase, Amex) sources in parallel. Outputs one table with transfer partner optimization and recommendations.

compare-hotels

Unified hotel comparison across Chase Edit, Amex FHR/THC, metasearch, and Airbnb. Highlights premium program benefits, stacking opportunities, and benefit-adjusted pricing.

deutsche-bahn

Deutsche Bahn train schedules, journey planning, and departures across Germany and into neighboring countries (Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Belgium). Use for ICE/IC/regional rail planning and airport ground transport (FRA, MUC).

duffel

Real-time GDS flight search via Duffel API. Accurate per-fare-class pricing, cabin selection, multi-city, time preferences. Primary cash price source. Does not include Southwest.

fallback-and-resilience

What to do when a tool fails, an API hits a rate limit, or a site blocks scraping. Maps every primary tool to its best fallback so a single failure doesn't block the search.

flight-search-strategy

Canonical multi-source flight search strategy. Source priority (Duffel, Ignav, Google Flights, Skiplagged, Kiwi, Seats.aero, Southwest), parallel workflow, market selection for international price arbitrage.

gardening

Audit and tend to existing travel reservations. Reads a user-provided reservations file, then systematically checks every booking for price drops, better cabin availability, improved routings, schedule changes, nearby airport alternatives, and award repricing opportunities. Invoke proactively on a regular cadence or when the user says "garden", "check my bookings", "audit reservations", "price drop", "better routing", "did my flight change", "tend reservations", "reservation maintenance", or "check my trips".

getting-started

First-run setup. Detects configured API keys, points to the local setup-keys script for secure key entry, and shows sample prompts scaled to available tools.

google-flights

Browser-automated Google Flights search via agent-browser. All airlines including Southwest. Cash prices, schedules, economy/business comparison, market selection.

hotel-chains

Maps hotel brand names (Westin, Sheraton, Holiday Inn, etc.) to chain families and loyalty programs. Use when hotel results contain branded properties or deciding whether to check award rates.

ignav

Fast REST API flight search via ignav.com. Cash prices, booking links, market selection for price arbitrage. Include in every flight search alongside Duffel and other sources.

lessons-learned

Mandatory pre-flight-search reference. Contains the Seats.aero workflow (pull ALL programs first), source accuracy hierarchy, Southwest/Companion Pass specifics, small-market caveats, and Duffel limitations.

partner-awards

Loyalty program airline ticketing partnerships (alliance + bilateral). Cross-references credit card currencies to booking programs for award reachability checks.

plan-trip

Guided trip planning workflow. Asks destination, dates, travelers, class, and flexibility, then runs parallel flight/hotel search with cpp math and booking plan.

points-valuations

Cents-per-point (cpp) valuations across major loyalty programs from four publications. Floor/ceiling rules for deciding if a redemption is good or exceptional.

premium-hotels

Search Amex FHR/THC and Chase Edit hotels by city. Compare credits, benefits, and find stacking opportunities across card programs.

rapidapi

Google Flights Live and Booking.com Live search via RapidAPI. Secondary source for cash flight prices and hotel availability when SerpAPI needs a second opinion.

round-the-world

Round-the-world, Circle Pacific, and distance-based award products across alliances. Covers Star Alliance RTW, oneworld Explorer, Lufthansa M&M, Qantas, Cathay, JAL, Aeroplan, and Iberia charts.

scandinavia-transit

Search trains, buses, and ferries in Norway (Entur), Sweden (ResRobot), and Denmark (Rejseplanen). Intra-Scandinavia ground transport with schedules and Danish fare pricing.

seatmaps

Aircraft seat maps, cabin dimensions, and seat recommendations via SeatMaps.com and AeroLOPA. Search by flight number or airline+aircraft via agent-browser.

seats-aero

Search award flight availability across 27 mileage programs via Seats.aero Partner API. Find cheapest award flights, compare programs, and get booking links.

serpapi

Google Flights cash prices, Google Hotels, and Google Travel Explore via SerpAPI. Use for award-vs-cash comparison, hotel search, and destination discovery.

southwest

Search Southwest Airlines fares and points pricing via Patchright browser automation. SW is not in any GDS or API. Covers all fare classes, Companion Pass value, and fare drop monitoring.

status-match

Status match and status challenge rules for airlines and hotels. Covers free direct matches, paid concierge via statusmatch.com with fees, card-granted status, and critical lifetime/once-per-N-years restrictions that make wasted matches expensive.

stopovers

Per-program stopover rules for award redemptions. Which programs allow free stopovers, how many, how long, and which don't. Covers Icelandair, Aeroplan, Alaska, Flying Blue, Singapore, Cathay, JAL, and the negative space (BA, AA, Delta).

sutochno

Search Sutochno.ru (СУТОЧНО.РУ), a Russian short-term apartment-rental platform where you book directly from owners and pay in rubles (Mir card / bank transfer). Best for Russian-speaking travellers booking stays in Georgia / the CIS, where Airbnb and Booking have withdrawn or do not accept Russian cards. Sutochno is NOT behind a bot wall — it ships on the toolkit standard patchright-docker base but runs the bundled chromium headless with no Akamai sensor to defeat. Trigger phrases include search Sutochno, суточно, Russian apartment rental, ruble payment, Mir card, Tbilisi apartment, Batumi apartment, Georgia CIS rental.

ticketsatwork

Search TicketsAtWork (EBG corporate perks) for hotels, theme park tickets, attractions, and rental cars via Patchright. Often beats portals by 10-30%. Use when comparing hotel or ticket prices for a trip.

transfer-bonuses

Active credit card transfer bonuses from Amex, Chase, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Rove. Weekly-refreshed data with confidence markers. Use when pricing an award booking that involves a points transfer or deciding whether to wait for a better bonus.

transfer-partners

Credit card to loyalty program transfer ratios. Cross-references seats.aero award prices with transfer ratios to find the cheapest path from UR, MR, TYP, Capital One, or Bilt to any mileage program.

trip-calculator

Cash vs points trip cost comparison. Factors in transfer ratios, taxes, fees, CPP valuations, and opportunity cost to recommend the best redemption strategy for flights and hotels.

trip-log

Save flight searches, itineraries, and booked trips to the trips/logs/ directory for future reference. OPT-IN — use when the user asks to log a trip or look up past searches, or on every search only if the user has said they want automatic logging. Also use to update status when a trip is booked or completed.

trip-planner

Full trip planning orchestration. Combines flight search, hotel search, and points optimization into one cost analysis. Use when the user says "plan a trip" or wants the complete picture for a destination.

tripadvisor

TripAdvisor Content API for hotel ratings, restaurant search, attraction reviews, rankings, and nearby locations. Use when evaluating hotels or researching destinations. 5K calls/month.

vrbo

Search VRBO (Vrbo / Expedia Group) vacation rentals including entire homes, condos, and cabins via Patchright browser automation. VRBO sits behind Akamai Bot Manager so plain HTTP and standard Playwright get a 429 bot wall. Use for whole-home or group stays, multi-bedroom rentals, and Airbnb-vs-VRBO comparisons. Trigger phrases include search VRBO, Vrbo rentals, vacation rental, cabin rental, whole house, condo for the group.

wheretocredit

Mileage earning rates by airline and booking class via wheretocredit.com. Redeemable and qualifying miles across 50+ programs. Use when deciding where to credit a flight or comparing earning rates.

wikipedia-airports

Discover destinations served from any airport via Wikipedia. Sanity-check whether an airline flies a specific route, find regional service that fare tools miss, identify late-split-return airport options.