Reference information about airline award-flight holds. An award flight is a ticket bought with loyalty points; a hold temporarily reserves its seats before the points transfer is complete.

Use it to check whether programs such as American Airlines, Lufthansa, Flying Blue, or ANA allow holds, including their duration, cost, and booking method.

Point transfers can take from minutes to several days, while award seats may disappear. Knowing a program’s hold rules helps avoid losing a flight during that wait.

award-holds — Skill for Claude Code by borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill award-holds

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install travel-hacker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 1 agent, 7 MCP servers.

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README.md

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,390 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00053	$0.02390
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00956
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00478
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00239

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 961aaab0666b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

award-holds scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/award-holds/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Award Hold Policies per Loyalty Program

Reference data for which programs allow you to put an award flight ticket on hold, for how long, at what cost, and via what method (online vs phone). Critical for transferable-currency redemptions where transfers take minutes to days to clear.

Data lives in data/award-holds.json. Refresh cadence is 90 days because hold rules change rarely.

Why Holds Matter

When you find an award seat but the points are sitting in a transferable currency (Amex MR, Chase UR, Citi TYP, Capital One, Bilt, Marriott Bonvoy), you need to transfer them to the loyalty program before booking. Transfer times range from instant (most Amex/Chase partners) to 4 days (Marriott Bonvoy to airline partners).

Without a hold, you risk losing the award seat while the transfer pends. A hold removes the seats from the available pool for the duration, guaranteeing they'll still be there when you ticket.

When to Use This Skill

User is planning a transferable-points booking and asks "can I hold this?"
User is comparing programs to redeem the same partner award (e.g., Cathay first/business via AA vs Cathay Asia Miles)
User asks about the AA 24-hour hold change vs the old 5-day policy
Trip planning involves Marriott Bonvoy → airline transfers (4 days, must use a hold)
Researching whether a specific program supports holds before committing to the redemption strategy

When NOT to Use

Stopover questions (use stopovers skill)
Cancellation/refund questions (different concept — that's about UNDOING a ticketed booking, not holding before booking)
Award availability search (use seats-aero)
Routing-rule questions (use partner-awards)

Programs That Allow Holds (9 + Singapore agent-discretionary)

Program	Max Days	Hold Fee	Phone Fee	Online Self-Serve	Confidence
American AAdvantage	1	$0	$0 (free changes/cancels)	Yes	VERIFIED
Lufthansa Miles & More	5	$0	$20	No	VERIFIED
Air France/KLM Flying Blue	3	$0	$25	No	VERIFIED
Cathay Asia Miles	2	$0	$39	No	VERIFIED
Turkish Miles & Smiles	2	$0	varies	No	LIKELY
Virgin Atlantic Flying Club	1-2	$0	$0	No	VERIFIED
ANA Mileage Club	2	$0	varies	No	LIKELY
Emirates Skywards	1	$0	varies	No	LIKELY
EVA Air Infinity MileageLands	1	$0	varies	Yes	LIKELY
Singapore KrisFlyer	agent discretion	$0	$25 or 2,500 miles	No	LIKELY

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 153 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 961aaab0666b

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award-holds is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (895 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,390 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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