If you haven never heard of Seats.aero, they are an online search engine for award flight availability, kind of like Seatspy except that they have data of many frequent flyer programs, including United MileagePlus, AAdvantage, Delta Skymiles, Air Canada Aeroplan and Virgin Atlantic Flying Club etc.
Most importantly Seats.aero is free as long as your search date is within the next two months. However they don’t have the best UI – you need to switch between programs, and the Excel-inspired interface is a pain when you need to search for multiple dates and cities.
Good news is, Seats.aero has now developed a plugin that is available on ChatGPT’s plugin store. Note that you must pay $24 per month for ChatGPT Plus to use that feature, although the plugin itself is free.
GPT’s backend has full access to Seats.aero’s data, and you can query using natural language.
- You can name a city, country or region
- You can specify a date or a date range
- You can specify the airline or alliance
- You can narrow down the search results by adding restrictions
It appears that you can’t specify the frequent flyer program though (e.g. Aeroplan). Here are some examples:
It is a very powerful feature that makes finding reward flight availability much easier. ChatGPT Plus doesn’t have a free trial so you must pay the $24 though, which is not cheap unless you use it regularly.
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