Cash and points, on the same line
Points and cash aren't two different tallies you reconcile by hand — they're columns on the same booking, in the currency and the program it was paid in. A free-night award or a companion certificate is a field too, so it counts in the trip's totals instead of disappearing into “free.”
“Was that a good redemption?” is a question the trip page can answer, because the taxes are broken out from the points and the cash fare sits next to both.
What you'd get back today, and what's already spent
Every journey carries a free-until date and what happens after it, read off the confirmation and kept on the booking rather than re-checked by hand. Cash before that date is recoverable; past it, it's locked in. Points are never counted as recoverable by default — they're shown at the full amount at risk, because a program's redeposit terms aren't something this page is willing to guess at.
Where the terms name a real cancellation fee, the fee comes off what's recoverable rather than the whole cost being written off — and where the data to know either way isn't there, the trip says so instead of guessing.
One total, even when the currencies don't match
A hotel folio in yen and a flight in dollars normalize into one USD figure, at the European Central Bank's daily reference rates — refetched once a day, never invented. If the rate can't be reached, the total backs off to the per-currency view instead of printing a number nobody can stand behind.
Where it lives
- App
- Your trips
- MCP tool
- trip_budget — read only
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