The missing step between earning points and booking flights.
I built redeem.travel because I was frustrated. I had accumulated hundreds of thousands of points across Chase, Amex, Capital One and a couple of airline programs over the years. When it came time to actually use them for a trip, I hit a wall.
Which of my card and airline programs should I use for this flight? Should I transfer Chase points to United, or to British Airways and book through them? Should I pool Chase points with miles already at United? What about that Amex balance — can I combine it with my Chase points somehow? Is there a transfer bonus running right now that changes the math?
I spent hours — spread across multiple evenings and weekends — jumping between airline websites, credit card transfer dashboards, blog posts, Reddit threads, and spreadsheets, trying to piece together the optimal plan. And I consider myself someone who pays attention to this stuff. For most people, the complexity is simply too much, and they either book through the bank's travel portal at a fraction of the value, or they give up on points entirely.
That's the gap redeem.travel fills. You tell us what you have. We guide you on what to do with it.
You might notice there's no sign-up, no login, and no account to create. That's intentional. Your program selections and balances are saved locally in your browser — the data never touches our servers. We don't collect your email, we don't track your searches, and we don't build a profile on you. You get a useful tool; we don't get your personal data. If you clear your browser data, your saved selections reset — that's the trade-off, and we think it's the right one.
redeem.travel tells you the best way to use your points. It does not show you specific flights with times and seat maps — that's what airline websites and award search tools do well, and we link directly to them from your results. We also can't guarantee award availability, which changes by the minute. And our pricing data, while carefully maintained against primary sources, can go stale when airlines change their charts. We always tell you when a price is estimated vs. live.
redeem.travel is free to use. When you see credit card recommendations or booking links in your results, those are affiliate links. If you click through and take action — like applying for a card or booking a flight — we may earn a commission. This is how we sustain the site without charging you or cluttering it with ads.
Importantly: affiliate commissions never influence how options are ranked in your results. The optimizer sorts by value to you, period. We'd rather give you an honest recommendation that earns us nothing than a biased one that earns us a commission and costs us your trust.
We're actively working on expanding to global routes, connecting live flight pricing, adding more airline programs, and keeping our award chart data current as programs inevitably change their terms. If you spot an error or have a suggestion, we genuinely want to hear from you at hello@redeem.travel.
Thanks for trying redeem.travel. We hope it saves you the hours it would have saved me.