TravelFli

Maximize Your Miles
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Colorado, United States
http://www.travelfli.com

Welcome to TravelFli! Our site helps frequent flyers maximize the full potential of their loyalty programs. Our solutions help users manage all their frequent flyer accounts from one place, search for and monitor award availability, and book online using awards or cash--or both.

Our recommendation engine will also show you other ways to use miles, such as transferring between programs or taking advantage of program miles and points you don't use. It will also tell you whether or not redeeming miles for a specific fare is a good deal or if you would be better off using cash.

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Krista Paul (CO-Founder)

Very interesting facts in our blog about just how many seats airlines make available to award passengers. The results will surprise you! http://blog.travelfli.com/post/101581583/up-to-10-of-passengers-fly-for-free on April 29

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Krista Paul (CO-Founder)

Team meeting today at Google in Boulder. Discussed user acquisition costs and deep linking strategies over a nice spread of pork loin, chicken, salad and asparagus. Lovin' GOOG. on April 28

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Krista Paul (CO-Founder)

It's incredibly easy to get elite status in all the airlines this spring. Check out all the deals in our blog post: http://blog.travelfli.com/post/97352559/achieving-elite-status-is-easy-right-now on April 17

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Krista Paul (CO-Founder)

Funny, fresh perspective on flying in an airplane after all the complaining we hear. Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGYx35ypus My favorite lines: "Everybody on every plane should just constantly be going, OH MY GOD...WOW!" "You're sitting in a chair in the SKY!" on March 24

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Krista Paul (CO-Founder)

Crazy news in the MetaSearch and Travel Review space. Kayak and TripAdvisor are duking it out now..find out how TravelFli's VP of Engineering, Jim Donohoe, is involved! http://blog.travelfli.com/post/88843176/watch-out-tripadvisor-here-comes-travelpost on March 22

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Bambi Francisco Roizen October 11, 2008
Hey, Krista
I heard that you raised some funds! Hopefully you'll update your profile so those following your company on Vator will be notified. Also, if you post the fundraising announcement as a comment here, the news will go directly to our newsroom - just in case you didn't know.
Krista Paul October 11, 2008
Hi Bambi,
Can't wait to see it! Thanks for including us in the Vator Box.
Bambi Francisco Roizen October 09, 2008
Travelfli is one of the companies we looked at in Vator Box! Watch for it in the coming weeks. Guy Kawasaki was our guest host for that one. Krista - I'm sure you're going to have tons to say about our discussion.
Krista Paul October 09, 2008
The pilot 'costumes' were a novelty and part of our Techstars demo...we aren't actually captains! I really appreciate your feedback on the site. We've conducted some focus group studies on a variety of frequent flyers and we've found that most of them are great at keeping track of 1-2 programs (or alliances) that are important to them - it's the 'long tail' of their mileage programs that get lost in the shuffle. We are trying to help travelers realize that these miles and points are true currencies that will likely disappear if they aren't managed and utilized effectively. However, there will be a small percentage of frequent flyers that only work with one airline and/or alliance, and our product may not be for them.

Great point on the cash vs. miles decision. We are developing the technology so it will be able to suggest when it may be appropriate to buy a ticket with cash vs. using miles in order to achieve elite status (or mainatin). I'd be very interested in hearing more of your thoughts. Please email me at krista{at}travelfli.com. Thanks!
Krista Paul October 09, 2008
Great question, Carl! There are several different programs on the web that manage miles, including MaxMiles, MileageManager and MilePort. Travelfli provides a more in depth analysis of your portfolio of miles/points and then we go a step further by showing you how to use those miles (i.e., by notifying you when an award fare opens up to a city you are tracking). We think there is a disconnect on the ability to manage miles and then actually put them to use for travel. We are hoping to solve this problem!
Carl Tyler October 09, 2008
How will they differentiate themselves from MaxMiles.com which has existed for a few years and does what appears to be the same thing?
Matthias Schwarz October 09, 2008
On the upside, the video pitch is short and to the point. (Are the epaulets to imply that both are captains?) On the downside, the product isn't reviewable yet and some of its goals rub me (13+ times around the world, ranked on worldsmosttraveledpeople, and sitting on a million miles) the wrong way: Obviously, a loyalty program isn't working for your customer if he/she has trouble "organizing" a handful of miles at a dozen or so different programs (mine are all with a single alliance, by the way). Furthermore, choices only begin to become truly available once your customer reaches elite status and a significant amount of miles and perks. Unfortunately, the number of those customers is a only a small subset of your entire potential web traffic. Also to your detriment, truly loyal customers with miles and perks to burn tend to be the ones more "in the know" and with less need for your service. And, finally, the cash-vs-miles decision is only one of many - in the top tiers, it is often a decision of burning miles vs. paying cash and maintaining status. Nevertheless, I'll wait for your site to go live and I will take a look. Good luck!