Booking Guidance
Step-by-step guidance for booking award flights.
Install
npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill booking-guidance -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- borski/travel-hacking-toolkit839
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 9d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,063 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Step-by-step guidance for booking award flights. Covers the hold-before-transfer rule, phone numbers for major programs, and partner award booking workflows.
Booking Guidance
Finding the deal is half the battle. Telling the user how to actually book it is the other half. Every recommendation should include a booking path.
Reference data: data/alliances.json has booking details for major programs in key_booking_relationships.
Program Fee Profiles
Check this before recommending a transfer or locking in a departure city. Fees vary dramatically by program and origin airport and can add $100-700+ per person on top of the miles cost. Two things to keep in mind reading the table: (1) several programs are surcharge-free on their own metal and most partners but pass heavy surcharges on specific partners (notably British Airways metal), the YQ column calls those out; (2) dollar figures are per direction and scale with cabin, economy surcharges are materially lower than the business-class figures shown for surcharge-heavy metal. Rows marked ⚠️ are high-surcharge programs that often lose to cash.
