Seats.aero AI Finds 6,000-Mile Award, Saves More Than $300 on Buffalo Trip

2 articles · Updated · The Points Guy · Jun 3

Seats.aero’s new AI Assistant built a 3-night Buffalo itinerary from Boston and surfaced a cheaper redemption than the obvious option: 6,000 Etihad Guest miles for an American flight instead of 8,500 AAdvantage miles.
The tool paired live award availability with transfer-partner advice, also recommending a Hyatt Regency Buffalo stay at 8,000 World of Hyatt points per night—about $210 nightly value—and an 8,400-point JetBlue return to JFK.
That mix saved roughly $100 on the outbound flight, $84 on the return and more than $600 on the hotel stay, with the Hyatt redemption delivering nearly 3 cents per point.
On the trip itself, the assistant handled logistics and local recommendations well, including transit tips, beef on weck, buffalo wings and the Maid of the Mist excursion at Niagara Falls.
Its planning limits still showed: it missed a possible Hyatt stay on the Canadian side of the falls and failed to suggest bringing a passport for the easy cross-border walk, underscoring that users still need independent trip research.