I’ve tried just about every mileage program “aggregator” known to man, and a few more than that. Most of them offered one or two things I liked and several things I would have done differently. However, I’ve finally found one I really love, Award Wallet. Award Wallet offers a clean and simple presentation of your points balances, and elite status levels for your program and alliance. Award Wallet is free for the basic level, but I gladly donate money to get the expanded service which includes tracking of your expiration dates. Award Wallet is capable of tracking your travel plans, but I use TripIt Pro for that and focus solely on points tracking for myself and MrsMJonTravel. I added her programs to the account after we mistakenly let 10,000 US Dividend Miles evaporate from her account. 🙁
Award Wallet now offers a handy little service called OneCard. OneCard is the size of a credit card, and lists each of your program account numbers (up to 30) and contact phone numbers. I think that’s a pretty nifty thing to have in your travel wallet and will be ordering mine soon. Historically, I’ve maintained my program account numbers in my Outlook notepad, and will continue to keep that list. But having a OneCard in my travel wallet makes sense to me.
With so many good things to say about Award Wallet, I have to admit I was a little bothered when I read in The Wall Street Journal recently that American Airlines and Southwest Airlines are making an effort to disallow Award Wallet and other aggregator sites from displaying their content. I speak from experience when I say airlines can be control freaks, so I’m not surprised that they are a little touchy on this subject. That said, I hope they peek through the trees and the forest on this and see the light. Frequent fliers value the services that the folks at Award Wallet provide, and airlines could be stepping on it if they overdo it with their control issues on this subject.
Award Wallet is good stuff. It’s the the cleanest, easiest to navigate site for keeping track of my points/miles. When I forget my username/password for any of the hotel/airline sites I just head over to Award Wallet and sign-in using them. I do send them money 2x a year – just so they stay in business. And it fun to see my numbers grow. I’ve 43 accounts so it’s a lot to keep straight. 3,405,733 points/miles as of this morn.
I recently wrote of my struggle with tracking airline miles, et al (http://boardingarea.com/unroadwarrior/2011/10/19/the-pain-of-tracking-airline-miles-and-hotel-points/). I was also pointed to AwardWallet by most readers and I have started using it. While it is probably the best out there, it has still not allowed me to do away with the spreadsheet I use to manually track miles/points. My biggest need is to be able to re-concile expected miles (that I will have to track manually), with earned miles. I do that for my banking with Quicken today – enter a check I have written, deposit I have made, etc. Quicken then re-conciles these with actual transactions with the bank.
Can you explain what did you not like in gomiles besides few airlines and hotel options. I think they are adding more by the dozen quickly but besides that is there anything that you like less as compared to award wallet
Me too! Tracking 60 programs and my/wifes 1.6 million points.
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BTW I still have some free 6 month upgrades to the plus account if anyone wants them:
Free upgrade coupon for the first time
users: free-kvlurt – 7 left
Feel free to use my link and the upgrade codes until all gone! 🙂
I like gomiles.com because it may not be as fully featured as Award Wallet but it has a nice UI and it works well. I like the way it displays the airlines in alphabetical order by alliance and totals it all.