THE $2,200
LONDON TRAP
Same seat. $2,200 in cash or 45,000 points you already have. Almost nobody finds out.
Read on
1 · The trip you keep almost booking
Everybody's got that one trip they keep almost booking.
M
MayaI've wanted to see London for years. Big Ben, the little pubs, all of it. So I finally looked up the flight...
2 · Her plan
M
Maya...$2,200? Oof. Fine, I'll just throw it on my bank's travel portal and call it done.
× Pay cash $2,200
× Bank travel portal 220,000 points
× Burn card points at checkout ~1¢ each
This is the exact moment most people quietly overpay, and never find out.
3 · Hold on a second
CP
ChainPointsWait, your bank's travel portal? So you've got points sitting in that account. How many?
M
MayaUh... like 300,000? I've just been letting them pile up.
CP
ChainPointsThe portal would've burned 220,000 of those. That exact seat is 45,000 by transfer.
4 · What ChainPoints shows you, right in Google Flights
New York → London (LHR)
Nonstop · round trip
$2,200
cash
ChainPoints · book with points instead
AS
Alaska Mileage Planbook with partner alliance
45,000cheapest
AA
American AAdvantagealso works
67,000option 2
M
MayaSo I was about to pay $2,200... for a seat I basically already had?
Same flight. Same day. Same seat. The only difference was knowing.
5 · How it actually works
CP
ChainPointsAnd doing it? Three steps. That's the whole trick.
Points you already earnedflexible bank points
Transfer to the right airlineAlaska
Book London45,000 pts
Booked for 45,000. You've still got 255,000 in your pocket.
No new card. No cash. Just the points you were already sitting on, pointed the right way.
6 · The whole point
This is what
This is what
ChainPoints solves
It finds the cheapest way to book any flight with the points you already have, right inside Google Flights. No spreadsheets, no guessing.
Free
Forever
Forever
until we save you $200