partner-awards
Loyalty program airline ticketing partnerships (alliance + bilateral). Cross-references credit card currencies to booking programs for award reachability checks.
npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill partner-awards --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Partner Awards **Reference data:** `data/partner-awards.json` When recommending award bookings, check this file to verify: 1. The booking program can actually ticket the airline you're recommending 2. Whether the partnership is alliance-based or bilateral 3. Cross-alliance highlights (VA→ANA, Etihad→AA, Alaska→Starlux, etc.) 4. Which credit card currencies can reach the booking program ## Cross-Alliance Bookings Are Where the Real Value Hides The best redemptions often involve booking an airline through a program in a DIFFERENT alliance (or no alliance at all). Always check the `cross_alliance_highlights` section. ## Verification Is Mandatory, Not Optional When recommending a transfer, ALWAYS verify the transfer path exists in `data/transfer-partners.json` BEFORE committing to the recommendation. If a user or your own reasoning suggests a transfer path not in the file, verify it before agreeing. The file may be stale, or the path may not exist. This is a hard gate, not a soft check. Never accept a transfer path at face value. ## Reachability Workflow When checking if a user can actually book an award flight: 1. **Identify the operating airline.** Star Alliance? oneworld? SkyTeam?
- Cross-Alliance Bookings Are Where the Real Value Hides
- Verification Is Mandatory, Not Optional
- Reachability Workflow
- Common Failure Modes
- See Also
What does the partner-awards skill do?
Loyalty program airline ticketing partnerships (alliance + bilateral). Cross-references credit card currencies to booking programs for award reachability checks.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill partner-awards --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From borski/travel-hacking-toolkit, a repository with 611 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.