Flights
The expertise that booking direct does not get you — complex routings, miles redemption, seat holds, credit tracking, 24/7 rebooking when the airline puts you on hold for three hours.
Most flights pay zero commission, and on the published fare we are typically more expensive than the airline website. We earn that premium five different ways. If your travel year does not need any of them, book direct with our blessing.
What Curv actually does
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Routing, cabin, and aircraft expertise
We know which seat. Which aircraft. Which carrier. For your route, your dates, your dietary needs — and we know what *not* to book. Multi-stop, mixed-alliance, open-jaw, stopover programmes, fuel-dump combinations, fare-class shopping, change-with-different-routing. Premium products by carrier are not equivalent: Qatar Qsuite, ANA "The Room", Singapore A380 Suite, Emirates Game Changer — different products, different routes, different days. Aircraft preference matters too — quieter A380 over louder 777, avoiding the 737 MAX 8, picking the right tail for the leg.
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Miles earning and redemption — top-1% lane
Curv's founder is among the top 1% of points-and-miles operators globally. The most efficient way to earn miles (credit-card sign-ups timed to the trip, transferable point currencies, hotel-points-as-flights via transfer). The most efficient way to redeem (sweet-spot awards, off-peak availability, mixed-cabin tickets that reduce cost without losing experience). For frequent travellers, getting the redemption right is worth six figures per year.
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Complimentary holds and flexible cancellation
We grab seats on a flight and hold them for you while you decide. Critical when premium-cabin inventory is tight, when a group is still finalising, when last-minute rebooking flexibility matters. The kind of move that quietly preserves an entire trip.
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Tracking your credits across airlines
Frequent travellers accumulate credits when flights are cancelled, changed, or refunded. Each credit has its own expiration, eligibility rules, and route restrictions. Some Curv clients have eight or more open credits across carriers at once. We track them all and ensure they get used before they expire — across United, AA, Delta, Lufthansa, Cathay, JAL, the lot. You do not need to think about it.
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24/7 support that actually answers
When the airline puts you on hold for three hours during a weather event, you call us. We pick up. We rebook on whichever airline still has space — not the one whose hold music you are listening to. The single most-cited reason existing clients stay.
A multi-stop family trip with one strategic redemption
Family of four, two weeks across the Indian Ocean, end of the year. Outbound from JFK to Doha on Qatar Qsuite — paid in cash because the date had no premium award availability. Doha to Malé on Qatar economy because the leg is short and Qsuite would have eaten the budget for the rest. Hotel-to-airport seaplane handled by Curv, baggage interlined. Halfway through, the eldest gets sick — we move the inter-island leg by two days inside the existing PNR with no penalty because we hold a Qatar relationship and we know the right gate agent. Closing leg from Malé to JFK on a strategic miles redemption: 285,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles for the family across Qatar Qsuite — a redemption that would have cost $42,000 in cash, sourced from a credit-card transfer pattern Curv set up for the client eighteen months earlier. One thing the client does not see: in November we rebooked the wife's seat assignment three times because Qatar shifted the aircraft from a 777-300ER to a 777-200LR and back. She landed in 1A both ways.
Honest fit
This is for you if
- Frequent travellers with miles balances they do not have time to optimise
- Anyone who has been left on hold by an airline during a disruption
- Multi-stop routings, mixed-cabin tickets, group travel that needs flexibility
- Clients with multiple open credits across airlines that expire at different dates
This is not for you if
- Single-leg domestic flights where the website price genuinely wins
- Clients comfortable cold-shopping carriers and managing the disruption themselves
- Anyone whose primary metric is the lowest cash fare — that is not the lane
- Routes Curv has no relationship on, where we would just be calling the airline like you would
Frequent questions
You said you are more expensive on most flights. Why book through you?
Because the published-fare delta is the wrong frame. The five things on this page — expertise, miles, holds, credit tracking, 24/7 support — produce six-figure value for frequent travellers across a year. If your travel year does not need any of them, book direct with our blessing. We will tell you that.
Will you redeem my miles for me?
Yes — once we know your account picture across programmes. We do not transfer miles between accounts (the airlines forbid it). We work with your existing balances and structure new earning so the next year's redemption is even better.
How do you handle a missed connection or cancellation at 2am?
A real human answers. Curv's in-trip line is the same number as the 24/7 air-emergency line at the bottom of every itinerary you receive. We rebook across all carriers, not just the one that cancelled on you. The line is never voicemail.
Do you book commercial business and first class as well as private?
Yes — most trips mix the two. Sometimes commercial first is the right call (longer legs, established product). Sometimes private is. We will be honest about which leg of which trip favours which.
A flight, a hotel, a week,
or a year of trips.
Send us a single flight or a full multi-stop itinerary — both belong here. A human advisor responds within four hours during business hours, eight overnight. No bots in the response loop.