Miles Optimization

Inspiration

Since all of us like to travel, our minds immediately went to the American Airlines prompt. As customers ourselves, we took this as a sign to make something so that American Airlines can benefit as well as customers. With the miles optimization, we thought that AA could bring in more people to use their rewards system to gain member-inclusive deals and ways to save on the miles they traveled. It also promotes more airfare since people know that they can get some cash back for their time. As customers ourselves, we were inspired to implement this optimization process.

What it does

Make the most of your miles when you use our optimization system. Our system allows you to access top attractions based on your flight points. It compares the miles to each location from a selected hometown by the price of each flight to the location. This algorithm gives the ratio to compare which location is worth more in terms of miles and how to save miles efficiently. This process makes the customer experience a lot easier, allowing more people to look into AA's reward system.

How we built it

We built it using HTML, CSS, and Javascript with the backend of API data.

Challenges we ran into

One challenge we ran into was connecting the API to the front-end code. Since we were still new to back-end development, it took us a while to access an API's data. However, we were able to implement both these steps separately.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are really proud of our customized website along with our idea. Just like a low fare calendar to help the customer see which days have the cheapest prices for tickets, our algorithm provides customers an easy way to choose an efficient way to travel based on miles.

What we learned

We learned how to access data from an API and we also learned how to use front-end elements such as HTML and CSS to customize a website.

What's next for Miles Optimization

For now, we have the top 10 attractions based on seasons. In the future, we plan on extending it to all US locations and flights. It is our mission to make the website look a lot nicer and incorporate sorting algorithms to make our features more advanced.