Find Award Flights & Hotels
Without the Grind

No — Award Buddy finds available dates and gives you a direct link to the airline's booking page. You complete the booking yourself on the airline's website.

Award Buddy works as a Chrome extension and makes requests directly from your browser — using your own airline login session. No data passes through our servers. The results you see are the same ones the airline's own website shows you.

No. Award Buddy never sees your password. It captures a short-lived session token from the airline page — the same kind your browser already uses — and discards it when the session expires. Nothing is sent to our servers.

Award Buddy sends the raw response from the airline's search API to our servers for parsing. The parsed results are then returned and displayed to you. This approach lets us quickly adapt to any changes on the airline's website, keeping your experience reliable and up to date.

Different airlines have varying tolerances for high-volume award search activity. Querying a large number of dates with this tool could get your account flagged, potentially affecting your account access and the miles inside it. We recommend registering a separate mileage account to use with Award Buddy, then completing the actual booking through your main account. We've built in protective measures to reduce the risk of triggering anomaly detection from overly rapid queries. That said, some risk remains — we are unable to assist with account recovery or provide compensation for any account issues arising from the use of Award Buddy.

It depends on the program. Japan Airlines, China Airlines, EVA Air, Starlux Airlines, and Alaska Airlines query live availability in Fast Calendar — what you see reflects current seat inventory. LifeMiles and Asia Miles read from the airline's cached availability calendar, which is updated less frequently than the real-time booking engine. For those two programs, use Live Search to confirm before booking.

There are a few reasons this can happen. Although Live Search pulls real-time data, award seats are limited — by the time you go to book, someone else may have already claimed them. Airlines can also show "phantom" availability: seats that appear in search results but can't actually be ticketed. We recommend booking as soon as you spot an available seat. If you're using Fast Calendar View with LifeMiles or Asia Miles, note that their calendars are updated periodically rather than in real time — they may not reflect current availability. Click a specific date to run a Live Search and confirm before booking. Japan Airlines, China Airlines, EVA Air, Starlux, and Alaska Airlines use live calendar data.

The Free plan gives you access to all 13 programs with usage limits: Live Search covers 7 days per search within 90 days, and Calendar View shows 3 months. Pro removes all limits — unlimited search days, full calendar range, multi-city search, search history, and priority support.

Subscription fees are generally non-refundable. If you cancel, you keep access until the end of your billing period. Because Award Buddy connects to third-party airline and hotel websites, these sites may change at any time, and we reserve the right to add or remove supported programs accordingly — service disruptions caused by such changes are not grounds for a refund. Refunds may be considered only if a bug in our own code prevented you from using the service, or if you were charged in error. To request a refund, contact us at [email protected] within 7 days of the charge. See our Refund Policy for full details.

Award Buddy tries to guide you through common issues with on-screen prompts. Typical causes include: an expired airline login session (re-login and try again), triggering the airline's rate-limiting by searching too many dates at once, or a mileage program that requires its search page to stay open while Award Buddy runs. In rare cases, the airline may have updated their website in a way that breaks our parser — this is outside our control, but we fix these as quickly as possible. If you're still stuck, please use the support form below.

We're working to cover as many programs as possible, with priority given to popular mileage programs that other tools on the market can't search. If you'd like us to support a specific program, consider subscribing to Pro to support our work — and let us know which program you want via the support form below.