Award Tool Spotlight: Points Path | Coffee Break Ep85 | 1-6-26
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
There are a lot of tools out there that can help you find good award prices for the flights you're looking for. In today's podcast, we'll look at the tool Greg uses most often: Points Path.
(00:53) - Award tools: search vs discovery tools
(01:29) - Basics of Points Path
(03:43) - Paid Pro tier
(07:05) - Pros of Points Path
(10:25) - Cons of Points Path
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to Freakummiler's Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.8 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less or your money back. |
| 0:23.2 | Today's coffee break, award tool spotlight, points path. |
| 0:27.5 | There are a lot of tools out there that can help you find good award prices for flights. |
| 0:35.1 | And today we wanted to take a deep look at one specific tool called Points Path. |
| 0:41.8 | The reason I want to focus on Points Path is it is probably, not probably, is definitely, |
| 0:47.8 | the award tool I use most often, more than any other tool. |
| 0:51.8 | That's because it's integrated with Google Flights, |
| 0:54.4 | which I use all the time to search for paid prices. |
| 0:57.5 | And points path just comes along for the ride |
| 1:00.9 | and automatically shows me award prices right next to it. |
| 1:04.6 | So there are two types of award search tools. |
| 1:08.5 | There are search tools where you're looking to go from a |
| 1:12.5 | particular starting point to particular destination on this particular day. And there are |
| 1:18.8 | discovery tools which are broader. They let you do things like find any good awards that are |
| 1:25.5 | available to Europe or to Asia or maybe find awards that are available to Europe or to Asia, or maybe find awards that are available |
| 1:30.6 | anytime all year long. This is not that. This is, Points Path is not a discovery tool. It's a search |
| 1:36.9 | tool. And as I said, it integrates with Google flights. Yeah. And so let's talk about some of the |
| 1:43.3 | basics. Like Greg just said, it integrates with Google flightslights. Yeah, and so let's talk about some of the basics. Like Greg |
| 1:44.5 | just said, it integrates with Google Flights, which is super convenient because once you install the |
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