ANA · 777
HND→LAX
Points
60,000
As cash back
$600
Seat price
$6,450
Points & Miles · Coming Soon
Fly Business and First Class on Points
For over 10 years, every overseas flight we've taken has been in business or first class. Lie-flat beds, suites with a door, caviar over the Pacific. We book it with points, and we're getting ready to show you exactly how.
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We'll email you first when the doors open.
Free to join. Waitlist hears first, before anyone else.
Qatar Airways · Qsuite
LAX→DOH
Points
70,000
10+years flying only business and first class overseas
7M+points and miles redeemed for premium seats
150+business and first class award flights on 23 airlines
$430K+what those same seats cost in cash
Same Points, Two Ways
Cash Back Pays 1¢ a Point. Our Flights Average 6¢.
Most people trade their points for cash back or statement credits at 1 cent each. Spent on business and first class seats, the same points have averaged 6 cents each for us.
100,000 points as cash back
$1,000
A nice statement credit
100,000 points on flights
$6,000
A lie-flat seat across an ocean
6 cents is the average value per point across the award flights in our booking log.
Real Bookings
A Few Pages From Our Booking Log
We keep a spreadsheet of every award flight we book. Here are a few favorites, most under 80,000 points, with the cash price of the same seat.
Emirates · 777
GVA→DXB
Points
61,200
As cash back
$612
Seat price
$6,090
Qatar Airways · Qsuite
LAX→DOH
Points
70,000
As cash back
$700
Seat price
$9,327
Lufthansa · A380
MUC→BOS
Points
72,000
As cash back
$720
Seat price
$8,298
American · 787
ORD→BCN
Points
55,000
As cash back
$550
Seat price
$7,800
Emirates · A380
IAH→DXB
Points
186,000
As cash back
$1,860
Seat price
$15,886
Points are per ticket, one way. Seat price is what the same seat sold for when we booked. Cents per point counts the seat price minus the taxes and fees we paid. Cash back assumes the usual 1 cent per point. Chicago to Barcelona shows the typical Google Flights fare for that seat.
What We'll Show You
The Whole Playbook, in Plain English
No jargon, no 40-tab spreadsheets. The same steps we follow every time we book.
01 Earn
Collect the Right Points
Which cards and programs actually get you to the front of the plane, and which ones only look good on paper.
02 Find
Find the Seats
Where award seats show up, when they open, and how to tell a great deal from an average one in seconds.
03 Book
Book It Yourself
From moving your points to choosing your seat, so you land rested instead of folded into 34B.
Where Our Points Took Us
This Is What 7M Points Looks Like
Who's Teaching
Hi, We're Catarina and Rafa
We started collecting points so we could travel more. Then we figured out we could also travel a lot better. Since then we've flown 23 airlines in business and first, and for more than 10 years every overseas trip has been up front. That includes the trips with our son Louie.
We get the same questions every week. Which card? Which program? How do you even find these seats? We're putting all of it in one place, and the waitlist gets it first.
Catarina & Rafa
Join the Waitlist
Your Next Long-Haul Flight Could Be Lie-Flat
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We'll email you first when the doors open.
Free to join. One email when it opens, plus a few of our favorite routes along the way.