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Award flight Routing Options? Check Flightconnections..

11/10/2018

One of the task in mileage award redemption is to figure out which airlines serve the source and destination. Sometimes the routing may not be direct and would involve one or more connections. Paid tools like ExpertFlyer can provide you seat availability for given airlines but before you get there you need to know which airlines serves your source and destination which will also allow you to figure out which particular mileage currency might be useful.

FlightConnections:
FlightConnections is a useful website to find out what airlines services your source and destination airport. It has below set of features as of now:

Enter source and destination airports.
Select just a source or destination airport and you can view all other airports it gets connection from / to.
Select option of direct, 1 stop or 2 stop flights.
Select alliances or airlines.

Below image shows a sample search from San Francisco to Nairobi with 1 stop option. As you can see it lists 9 routes with one stop and list all the connecting cities. This could be useful to determine the award search source and destination and see the one available for your dates of travel. It also lists the potential airlines on the left pane which would be useful (although we are not looking to "check price" for the award).

Sample search from SFO to NBO airport

There are few con's though of using the website.

It has prominent display of advertisement which might obstruct the search view at times.
If you change the filter from direct to 1 stop or 2 stop, or select the alliance, you will need to re-enter the source and destination airports.
Although it is useful to see the connection airports for 1 stop or 2 stop flights it does not tell how long the layover would be.

They do have paid plans which might be useful for the one's who frequently uses miles and points which can be found here.

So, next time you are looking to get that mileage redemption award going you might want to check this website.

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AIRLINE ROUTE MAPS SEARCH?

8/9/2014

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Ever wondered, which airline flies which route and what are the flight options for the given city? Would that not be much easier if there was single source or page listing all the flights departing a airport? or showing flight details between two city pair?. Although no single website exists which could satisfy this needs there are several resources which could help you find that info. Below are some of the useful websites which can help you get that info, which would help you finalize that missing puzzle of your successful award or revenue travel.

Flightconnections.com
Currently in beta flightconnections will help you find what are the "destinations" served from the airport of your desire and if you key in source/destination pair the available airline/flight options between those two airport/city pair. Of-course you could click on one of those airlines and go to one of their "affiliate" booking web-page, but at least you get the info you need.

Sample flight routes from SFO-LAX on flightconnections.com

OpenFlights.org
Open Flights is like a wikipedia of flights. As it is open-source it is maintained by community of volunteers, and thus would have good info albeit some of the info might be wrong. The interesting part is you could view or list flights from a given "airport" or "city" and the data could be either seen as a map or read as a list. You can even sort the data as well as filter per the "airlines". As seen from below snapshots!

Sample search for departures from San Francisco Airport on openflights.org

All routes from SFO listed on openflights.org

Routes shortlisted to the one on American Airlines on openflights.org

QuickTrip.com
This tool would be useful if you know the source and destination as well as the dates of your travel and want to know all the available flight options. So, although limited compared to open flights or flightconnection it is still useful as it can quickly list all the options on various airlines as can be seen from below search.

QuickTrip.com flight options from SFO-LAX

AirlineRouteMaps.com
This website requires a little more info before spitting out the route-map but it is useful if you are looking for a route map by "region" or "airline". You could plug in your short-listing criteria and get set of route-maps which are available. You can see a simple search for American Airlines below yields links to various route maps by region as well detailed info on the "hubs".

Airline Route Maps for American Airlines various destinations

Airline Route Mapper
Airline route mapper is another tool which was created by flyertalk member cockpitvisit. You need to download this tool but it does list a fairly comprehensive and updated route map. So, if you are one of those who do lot of search and do not mind installing this tool on your laptop/desktop then this is for you.

Apart from above there is a route map (which might be a little limited in its usage but still useful) for One World Alliance routes which can be found here and Star Alliance routes which can be found here.

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Award flight Routing Options? Check Flightconnections..

AIRLINE ROUTE MAPS SEARCH?

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