
Ian Carroll
Software developer and founder of Seats.aero, the award-travel search engine for finding flights bookable with points and miles.
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Oct 7, 2026
How to Find Award Flights With Points: Tips From the Seats.aero Founder
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Ian CarrollGUEST
It's really important because it's the way that we can show you, you know, all of these results at once, right? If you imagine, like, USA to Europe, you know, across a bunch of dates, that's a lot of individual searches on an airline.

Ian CarrollGUEST
And so what SeatGeek does is we run these searches in the background periodically, and we update this data.

Ian CarrollGUEST
And so then when you run the search, you know, it's fresh and it's ready and it's available.

Ian CarrollGUEST
And so the Pro account, it does refresh this data as you look at it, and that's what I really love about SeatGeek is, you know, I can run the search.

Ian CarrollGUEST
I can say, "I just want to see the data." I can see what, you know, we think is available from our database, and then as the thing runs in the background, it'll update that and refresh it.
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Meghan CoyleHOST
I think listeners will be listening to this and thinking, "Oh my gosh, this tool might solve all of my problems related to trying to find flights with points and miles." But are there any limitations you think people need to know about before they start going crazy searching all these [laughs] flights?
A record-breaking wildfire season is straining Europe's aerial firefighting capacity
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Ian CarrollGUEST
Anyone with administrator accounts to these systems have the ability to issue all these expensive tickets for $0.

Brent BamburyHOST
But for Ian, it was also a warning about how AI could affect our day-to-day security online.