Miles and points redemptions

To get the most value from airline miles and transferrable credit card points, it's helpful to know which airlines offer award seats on your desired route, which programs offer those seats, and of the programs that offer the seats, which provide the best value.  

That means you need to know airline destinations / route maps, transfer opportunities, airline partnerships, and award charts / redemption rates.  

Other websites provide an encyclopedic amount of information on the value of individual points, award chart "sweet spots", aspirational product reviews, but they don't solve the most pressing need for most people - tell me the best way to get from A to B!  

When I want to get from A to B, here are the first options I consider: