Find business class to Asia on points every month

A business class seat to Asia costs thousands in cash, and many founders who run companies with zero employees, the people ZeroCrew is built for, already hold airline miles or card points that can cover one. This use case is for your own trips: a holiday in Tokyo, a visit to Seoul, or a long weekend in Singapore. Points cover the seat only if you find one in time.

Finding a business class award seat is the hard part of turning points into flights. Award seats open and close on their own schedule, and each loyalty program shows a different slice of them. ZeroCrew's answer is a monthly search by an AI agent: a Grok Bot routine asks seats.aero for business class award seats from Europe to Asia under 100,000 points and sends you the best three to five.

The monthly award search gives you one short message with the route, date, airline, points, cash part, and booking link for each option, and the programs you can pay with come first. ZeroCrew built this use case around two tools in its directory, Grok Bot and Seats.aero, with steps and costs from each maker's own docs, opened in October 2026. Award space comes and goes, so no search can promise a seat.

Why is finding business class award seats by hand so hard?

Finding business class award seats by hand is hard because availability is spread across many loyalty programs and changes often. ZeroCrew read seats.aero's API docs: its Concepts page (updated August 2026) lists 26 mileage programs as of October 2026, from Flying Blue and Aeroplan to Singapore KrisFlyer, and the programs can each show different seats on one flight.

Award seats open and close without warning. Seats.aero's help center, which ZeroCrew opened in October 2026, says airlines regularly open, close, and reprice award seats, sometimes with little notice. A search that repeats every month gives you more chances to catch new space than one evening of searching.

Some award seats look bookable and aren't there. Seats.aero's help center calls this phantom availability: a flight shows as bookable with points, but no seat exists when you try to reserve it. ZeroCrew notes the three causes seats.aero gives: cached results that someone already booked, syncing delays in airline partner systems, and partner feeds that show space that isn't real. Each cause is a reason to check first.

The cash part of an award ticket varies too, so points alone don't tell you the full price of a seat. ZeroCrew found in seats.aero's Concepts page (updated August 2026) that taxes and surcharges aren't available in its data for Qatar Privilege Club, Turkish Miles&Smiles, and Singapore KrisFlyer. For seats booked through those three programs, you confirm the cash part on the program's own site before you decide.

How does a monthly award seat search work?

A monthly award seat search is one agent run with one job: search, rank, check, and report. ZeroCrew's version runs as a Grok Bot routine, which xAI's Grok Bot docs (October 2026) describe as telling one Bot when to run a workflow on a schedule. Routines run in the cloud while your laptop is closed.

Each monthly run follows the same five steps, which ZeroCrew wrote into the prompt on this page:

1. Search seats.aero for business class award seats from your European airports to your Asian cities over your date range, under your points limit.
2. Put the programs you can pay with first, such as Avios or the airline partners your card or bank points transfer to.
3. Rank the best three to five options by points, taxes and fees, stops, and seats left.
4. Check that each seat is still listed in seats.aero's latest data, then send the route, date, airline, points, cash part, and booking link.
5. If nothing fits, say so in one line.

The shortlist lands in the Bot's chat on your phone or desktop. ZeroCrew suggests a monthly rhythm for founders who plan trips weeks ahead, because it leaves time to transfer points and still catches new space. xAI's docs say you ask for a schedule in plain words, and the routine then shows the saved schedule in words under When to run, so you can confirm the date.

Which tools do you need to find business class on points?

The monthly award search needs two tools: an agent that runs on a schedule and an award search engine the agent can query. ZeroCrew lists both in its directory, and the table below shows what each tool does here and what it costs as of October 2026, taken from each maker's own pages.

Step	Tool	What it does here	Cost as of October 2026
Run the monthly search and send the shortlist	Grok Bot	Runs the routine and writes the shortlist	Included on The X Subscription Premium ($30 a month or $300 a year), Super, and Ultra
Find award seats and transfer partners	Seats.aero	Searches award seats and point transfers	Public search free for departures up to 60 days ahead (1,000 requests per IP address a day); Pro $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year

Grok Bot does the scheduling, searching, and writing in the monthly award search. ZeroCrew's Grok Bot page describes AI agents, called Bots, that sign in to your apps and websites and keep working after you close your laptop. xAI's docs (October 2026) add that a Bot can add an MCP server that isn't in its app catalog by its URL, which is how a Bot reaches seats.aero's public search without an account.

The cost of Grok Bot is the plan behind it. According to xAI's X Subscription pricing page (as of October 2026), Grok Bot is included on Premium at $30 a month or $300 a year, and on Super and Ultra, while the Plus plan doesn't include it. ZeroCrew notes from xAI's docs that legacy paid Cursor plans, every paid individual plan and Cursor Teams, include Grok Bot too.

Seats.aero finds the award seats in the monthly award search. ZeroCrew's Seats.aero page describes a search engine for award flights you book with airline miles and credit card points, which also shows which points transfer to which airlines. Seats.aero's developer docs (October 2026) say its MCP server lets an AI assistant search award flights, explore points transfers, and manage award alerts.

Seats.aero works without an account for near dates, and Pro covers the year ahead. According to seats.aero's MCP docs (October 2026), public results cover departures from today through 60 days ahead, with a daily limit per IP address. Seats.aero's terms (updated August 12, 2026) list Pro at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, with data up to 365 days ahead on supported routes. ZeroCrew suggests Pro for date ranges past two months.

The link between the two tools is seats.aero's MCP server, never its website, and the use has to be personal. ZeroCrew read seats.aero's terms (updated August 12, 2026): a Pro subscription may not be used in an automated fashion, and its APIs, which MCP calls draw on, are free for personal, non-commercial use with visible credit to seats.aero. For company travel, search seats.aero yourself or get seats.aero's written permission first.

Once a month, use the seats.aero MCP server (not the seats.aero website) to search business class award seats from {your home airports in Europe} to {Asian cities you'd fly to} over the next {date range}, priced under {100,000} points. Put the programs I can pay with first: {my points programs, such as Avios, plus transfer partners from my card or bank points}. Pick the best 3 to 5 options by points, taxes and fees, stops and seats left, and give me the route, date, airline, points, cash part and booking link for each. Check that the seats are still listed in seats.aero's latest data before you send them, and if nothing fits, say so in one line. Credit seats.aero with a link to seats.aero in the message.

Paste the prompt below into a chat with a new Grok Bot, fill in your airports, cities, dates, points limit, and programs, and ask the Bot to save the search as a monthly routine. ZeroCrew kept the placeholders, so one prompt fits any home airport and any points program.

How do you set up the monthly award search?

Setting up the monthly award search takes six steps, and ZeroCrew wrote each one from xAI's Grok Bot docs and seats.aero's MCP docs, opened in October 2026. If a screen looks different from these steps, each maker's docs have the current version.

1. Choose a plan that includes Grok Bot, such as The X Subscription Premium, and install the Grok Bot app on your desktop or phone.
2. Create a Bot for travel, and ask it to add the seats.aero MCP server by the address on seats.aero's MCP page, and to use only that server, never the seats.aero website.
3. If you have an eligible seats.aero Pro account, approve the seats.aero sign-in when the Bot asks, so searches reach past 60 days. Don't connect a Pro account to a Bot other people share, because seats.aero's terms say Pro may not be shared. Seats.aero's MCP docs (October 2026) list the AI apps whose sign-in it accepts, such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor, and don't name Grok Bot. If the sign-in returns an invalid redirect error, seats.aero's docs ask you to email the exact callback address and app to its support team.
4. Paste the prompt, fill in every placeholder, and run it once as a normal task.
5. Ask the Bot to save the method as a skill, then to run the skill as a routine on one day each month. Check the time zone in Settings, under Bot, labeled Timezone.
6. If the routine shows Test, press it to run once now. xAI's docs say a new routine waits for its next scheduled time, and a test run does real work and spends usage.

What should you check before you trust the results?

Trust the monthly shortlist only after the first run passes a few checks. ZeroCrew treats the agent's results as a lead, not a booking: seats.aero's terms say its service mainly shows cached data that may be outdated, so you confirm every seat with the airline or program before you move a single point.

On the first run, ZeroCrew suggests checking these points before you leave the routine on its own:

• Every booking link opens the program that shows the seat, with the same date and cabin.
• The points and cash part match what the program's own site shows today.
• The programs you can pay with appear first, and every option sits under your points limit.

Card points move in one direction, so the order of steps matters. Seats.aero's help center advises moving flexible points only after you confirm the seat on the airline's own site, and says a loyalty program agent can often verify a seat and hold it while you transfer. ZeroCrew built the prompt to stop at a shortlist, so the Bot never transfers points or books for you.

How does ZeroCrew help you pick the tools for each step?

The result you want is a monthly search that runs on tools you trust, and ZeroCrew helps you pick them. ZeroCrew's personal agents page lists the agents that can own the routine, ranked by how many people search for each by name, so you can compare Grok Bot with Manus, Lindy, and others before you choose.

Seats.aero sits in ZeroCrew's apps for founder life, next to the money, health, and travel apps founders run alongside their company. Each tool page on ZeroCrew summarizes what public posts on Reddit and other forums say about the tool, read by ZeroCrew and checked by a second AI model, so you see what people praise before you pay.

Your agent can search ZeroCrew's directory on its own. ZeroCrew's public MCP server at https://zerocrew.ai/api/mcp/public has tools to search the directory, read a tool's page, list roles, and list the tools for a job. Add the address to your Bot the same way as the seats.aero server, and the routine can suggest an alternative when a tool stops fitting. ZeroCrew's MCP servers list shows the tools in its directory flagged with an MCP server.

If you'd rather hand the setup to someone, ZeroCrew's AI agent setup picks the tools, sets them up, and keeps them running, after checking each tool against the same list, from its price at your size to whether agents can use it.