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PEX+ Award Travel Search
« on: December 02, 2015, 11:22:08 PM »
Re-posting for a friend:

So to those that spend time comparing mileage prices for airfare, I've been programming an award travel search engine to make our trip planning easier (called PEX+). With one simple search, you can view award airfare prices from numerous airlines in one place.
Who would be interested in testing out the search engine? (Sign-up form is here: http://goo.gl/forms/rWRsEde78r)
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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2015, 11:41:40 PM »
Is there a software or program that can price every ticket (or does it pay for me to make one)i want to compare:
Within each class of service per flight
Price for paid ticket
Price for point ticket (and taxes)
Get ticket from amex travel with 30 percent return(platinum or centurion if true)
Availablilty by logging in as a gold and platinum member.
What is the best option as well as if we see same availability and or same amount of points.
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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2015, 08:00:37 AM »
Signed up for Beta testing.

Would be curious to see how it stacks up to this recently released utility.

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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2015, 02:18:16 PM »
does it offer the price you can pay ( if you use amex travel you get back 30% in points?? true?
that could be part of the formula do see if its cheaper for points / pay / pay with amex points the price -30%.
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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2015, 02:22:22 PM »
Signed up. Lets see.
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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2015, 02:19:55 PM »
does it offer the price you can pay ( if you use amex travel you get back 30% in points?? true?
that could be part of the formula do see if its cheaper for points / pay / pay with amex points the price -30%.

Centurion: I'm the founder and lead developer. Logging in to your account will display a more customized search result so you'll be able to view options that apply to your status. Certain aspects of this will be phase 2 items. We have a partnership in place to integrate a dollar/points pricing comparison that we will be implementing in the near future. There is a matrix that you'll be able clearly view the lowest mileage price for each airline within each fare class.

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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2015, 09:11:36 PM »
I signed up last week and did NOT receive anything yet.
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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2015, 11:02:38 AM »
We're still in Alpha. Private beta is launching soon. We'll immediately email the link to everyone that signed up for private beta when we launch private beta.

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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2015, 12:34:06 PM »
Signed up. Lets see.
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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2016, 02:58:34 PM »
Letting everyone know: PEX+ is launching public beta next week. We're starting off with 6 airlines/alliances for flight search, among a few other added conveniences.

The API is on the way for OTAs that are interested and more airlines will be added at an ongoing pace.

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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2016, 03:11:10 PM »
Signed up for Beta testing.

Would be curious to see how it stacks up to this recently released utility.

There is no cost to search on PEX+. We are free, now include 7 airlines/alliances (and always adding more), and offer ow, rt, and md searches. If you create a user account with us, you can also view your point balances as you search.  pexportal.com  How's that for no charge? ;)

If you have any other questions, feel free to reply here or contact us.

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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2016, 02:57:10 PM »
Tried
TLV-TFN , nothing showed but some glitchy images
TLV-JNB - returned UA and DL results
TLV-OSL - stuck in a loop-never finished

Having multiple airline results in one place was very cool to see-if the searches can be made faster and the airlines expanded, this could be a one stop shop for award searches-wouldn't see a need to go elsewhere-but that's a big if no one else has been able to pull off so far.

Great concept-very buggy-looking forward to seeing it develop further

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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2016, 03:31:18 PM »

There is no cost to search on PEX+. We are free, now include 7 airlines/alliances (and always adding more), and offer ow, rt, and md searches. If you create a user account with us, you can also view your point balances as you search.  pexportal.com  How's that for no charge? ;)

If you have any other questions, feel free to reply here or contact us.
I'm not looking for a free product, although that would be nice. I'm looking for a working product that will save me hours of time on a daily basis and is worth the cost.

Tried
TLV-TFN , nothing showed but some glitchy images
TLV-JNB - returned UA and DL results
TLV-OSL - stuck in a loop-never finished

Having multiple airline results in one place was very cool to see-if the searches can be made faster and the airlines expanded, this could be a one stop shop for award searches-wouldn't see a need to go elsewhere-but that's a big if no one else has been able to pull off so far.

Great concept-very buggy-looking forward to seeing it develop further
Here's a screenshot of the other utility that's available (Fly3z) albeit at a cost, but does what it was created to do; that is search and show pricing and availability of multiple airlines / alliances in 1 place.

It still has some bugs, which the developers are working on fixing, and it doesn't have ALL the airlines. But for the ones it does have, it is a "1 stop shop".

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Re: PEX+ Award Travel Search
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2016, 02:36:09 AM »
We've added quite a bit to PEX+ since the last posts here. We now offer more airlines and the major US hotel chains (we've expanded to hotels with cash and points options), more filter options, and flexible date search. We've also fixed many of the bugs that you've previously experienced and made searches speedier overall. You can book hotels through us as well.

If you sign-up for a free PEX+ account and log in, you'll have access to our automated price alerts feature. This allows you to set automated searches and simply receive an email when results that meet your search criteria are found.

The API is nearly complete so if you need to implement our technology into your websites and applications, please get in touch.

If you would like to receive our updates more regularly, so you're in on the latest airlines being added, features, and partnerships, you can sign-up for our newsletter here8) As always, please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Happy searching and booking!