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Looking for the best way to get discounted air travel for a family trip (prices are $$$!). We are trying AAA, Venture points, Amex points- what am I missing?

How are you using your Amex points? If you’re “shopping” through the Amex portal and using them as cash, they’re worth a specific value per point. If there is award space on your route and you can transfer your points to an airline it *might* be a better value. You can also set alerts on Google Flights to let you know when prices drop.

Perhaps you could give us your origin & destination and approximate dates and we can see if we can help.

Hi- We’re flying round trip SFO-Boston the third week of July. With children, red eye flights are out. Thanks for any tips!

You may have better luck purchasing two sets of one-way tickets. If you could do the red-eyes that would really drop your price but that may be a no-go.

Look at each date individually on Google Flights as one-ways and don’t forget to check Southwest.com as that’s the only place you’ll see their flights.

Booking this close in for transcon routes during summer vacation is always tough.

[QUOTE=”MidSouth Skier, post: 64661, member: 184″]How are you using your Amex points? If you’re “shopping” through the Amex portal and using them as cash, they’re worth a specific value per point. If there is award space on your route and you can transfer your points to an airline it *might* be a better value. You can also set alerts on Google Flights to let you know when prices drop.

Perhaps you could give us your origin & destination and approximate dates and we can see if we can help.[/QUOTE]
Hi, We have a lot of AMEX points and I always find the tickets offers with Amex not a good value. I saw your comment to transfer Amex points to an airline. HOW can I do that? Where do I start? THANK YOU.
” If there is award space on your route and you can transfer your points to an airline it *might* be a better value. “

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[URL]https://onemileatatime.com/best-ways-to-use-amex-membership-rewards-points-intro/[/URL]

These probably help!

If you prefer video, OMAAT has a [URL=’https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX1yDX4-Wf8PXUzUQK_Je0Q’]YouTube channel[/URL] and [URL=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcshhQVKxgw&t=2s’]this video in particular[/URL], which talks about the different types of miles and points may be helpful.