Whether they’re scattered across airlines or you have your frequent flyer miles accumulated in one place, finding out how many can get you where isn’t always clear. Most of us sign up for mileage programs to get free flights (although there’s a lot miles can be used for) but often get sidetracked since it’s difficult to work toward vague goals.
Straightforward Numbers
Milez.biz is a simple site lacking a lot in design that lets you enter in two cities, an airline or mileage alliance, and then tells you the number of bonus miles needed to make a round trip. The site also breaks down the miles into economy, business, and first class in case you’ve got extra bonuses with or without credit cards.
Target Your Spending By Comparing Multiple Carriers
One of the best features of Milez is that it can show you a single, multiple, or how many miles needed for a free flight on over 75 airlines at once. This means you might be able to find an especially attainable program and fly for $5 like this travel hacker did or use one of these 7 ways to earn more miles fast. So, if you want to fly from New York to Istanbul, Milez can tell you the number of frequent flyer miles it takes to go for free on Turkish and American Airlines for example.
Although you probably should be using one of these 3 American mileage programs not matter where you live to collect more miles, you might be able to spot a carrier-specific deal that’s right for you.
Destination Suggestion
Milez works the other way around too – got the miles but don’t know where they can take you? The suggestions page makes for fun browsing, admittedly, it’s easy to get lost there a bit longer than you should. (Antananarivo anyone!?) There are a few drawbacks to Milez, mostly to do with aesthetics. I wish it could calculate one-way tickets for those of us who like to see more with multi-city flights. And although it’s not very apparent on the site how often or when it was updated last, in 10 scenarios I ran using 10 different airlines, all of the Milez results came back accurate.
Milez is a nice tool to use if you’re gifting miles, want to see how many more miles you need to fly free, and ultimately be more informed about the programs you’re using. Tracking your miles effectively is something the airlines don’t really want you doing since the better you are at it, the more advantage you’ll make of any mileage program.