The new Explore tool combines flexible destination searches, live award pricing and loyalty filters as point.me broadens its role in points-based travel planning.
point.me launched Explore, a personalised interactive map for finding award flights without first selecting a specific origin and destination. Announced on July 16, 2026, the tool allows travellers to search deals to and from regions around the world across flexible date ranges. The release positions the feature within a wider set of discovery and booking updates intended to make points and miles easier for everyday travellers to understand and use.
Explore brings several layers of award-travel information into one visual search experience. The map displays real-time award pricing, while users can adjust departure dates and filter results according to their loyalty programmes and credit cards. A calendar heat map highlights the strongest pricing across available dates, allowing members to investigate destinations they may not have considered when starting with a conventional airport-to-airport search.
The release also describes a comparison view that places three figures side by side: the cash price, the points required through a credit-card travel portal and the points required after transferring rewards to an airline loyalty programme. point.me says the comparison is designed to clarify the trade-offs between booking routes directly through a portal and moving points into an airline account. On some transfer deals, the company says its members use up to 90% fewer points than travellers booking through a credit-card travel portal.
The broader product update includes My Points, a digital loyalty wallet that lets travellers connect credit-card and loyalty accounts in real time. According to point.me, the feature estimates the cash value of a user’s balances and updates search results to show deals that can be booked with the points already available. Where a balance falls short, the service indicates how many additional points are needed for the flight, linking discovery more directly to a traveller’s existing rewards position.
Taken together, the features shift the starting point for award travel from a fixed itinerary towards a combination of destination possibilities, dates and available rewards. That does not remove the underlying complexity of loyalty programmes, but it gives point.me a way to present pricing and eligibility before a traveller commits to a route. The company describes the launch as part of its evolution from an award-search tool into a broader travel hub, with Explore serving as the clearest expression of that repositioning.
