Travel Tools - TripIt Pro - worth it? Alternatives?

Is TripIt pro worth the $70? Are there competing services that you would recommend over TripIt.

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Office personnel have access to my iteneraries and any changes due to flight delays, etc.
Good resource for identifying and changing flights due to flight problems (delays, etc.).

I know the TripIt iPhone app is very limited and other apps will use their information. I'll start a seperate thread for discussion of the phone apps.

Thanks

If you just want them to see your feed of travel details you can give them access to the iCal feed. I've done that with my wife and now she can see where I'm going and when. It makes scheduling much easier, especially since I don't remember half my trips until a week or two out.

Not so sure about other options for notification of delays, etc.

And there are a bunch of discounts floating around making TripIt Pro a bit less expensive; I'd search around before paying full price. For example TRIP49B is valid through tomorrow (9/16) for $20 off.

Like with anything else, I guess it depends :)

I've been using the free version of TripIt for a while (2 years maybe -- 1.5 at least) and was given a chance to buy a subscription to Pro at $49, which I did.

In my case, I'm often co-ordinating a trip with lots of people -- everybody buys their own tickets but we travel together on the ground. TripIt has been great for keeping track of that and TripIt Pro gives me email alerts when somebodies flight is late/canceled. Yes, I could get that info from the airlines websites, but I find its easier just to get an email rather than having to check.

So, for me it is worth $50 -- is it worth $70? That is probably the max I'd pay, and I might not even go that high.

Try Worldmate Pro. They have an iPhone and Blackberry version that syncs your travel itineraries from their website worldmatelive.com.

I tried the free Worldmate service (same service just missing some additional features like TripIt). I had very high expectations given what looked like a well advanced iPhone app (push notifications and full functionality). However, I forwarded 4 flight confirmations (all from AA) and it only picked up one correctly. I tried manually setting up the others based on what it could figure out and ended up with a mess and no clear easy way to clean it up (poor user interface for doing that). I did download the free iPhone version and found the same mess (as expected) but still no easy clean up of information.

I think both apps are onto a really great idea and could have something huge with some additional features/functions. The question is "who will get there first?"

In the mean time I took advantage of the discount code above and chose TripIt Pro - Thanks SMB12 for posting that!

As far as I'm concerned there still isn't a clear answer - it gets even more cloudy when considering the phone app functionality. I'm hoping TripIt continues to improve quickly.

I've been using TripIt for a while now also and find that it does a great job of building my itineraries -- where I can access it quickly from my iPhone. While it does a great job when I email my confirmations (they literally appear in my itinerary in mere seconds), and they are accurate, they don't handle changes very well.

For example, I had a car rental in an itinerary and I updated my reservation and sent the new confirmation - so now my itinerary had 2 car rentals in it, instead of replacing one with the other.

I upgraded to Pro with their $49 promotion (they claimed that as an early adopter, I would never have to pay more than $49 a year even if they raised prices) and gave it a try. It's nice to have others copied on my itinerary. The texting every time there's a flight change or delay is nice in concept, but most of the airlines already offer that service now (AA for example). So when I got the text of a delay, I already knew about the delay, so it was a reminder that I was delayed. Hm. Maybe when I fly airlines that don't offer this feature, it will be handy.

I'm left wondering if TripIt Pro is really worth it, but for now, I spent the $50 bucks and said "lets see what they make of this" -- I give them a year -- and I'll decide next year if this is something worth holding on to.

:) Mordy

I've been using the free versions of both TripIt and WorldMate the past few months. I like that the WorldMate has a Blackberry ap that works nicely, but feel it's missing some features (such as adding cruise itineraries and other "leisure" type activities easily). TripIt often picks up the emailed confirmations a bit better, though I find the online interface clunky when it goofs on something.

If TripIt had a BB ap, I'd probably go that direction, but I'm working with both for now to keep dupes and see who wins out overall.

I did have some issues about WorldMate Live when I forwarded confirmations as well. I found if I removed the FWD from subject header and the forward header it worked out great for me. I pretty much got addicted to WorldMate because of their Blackberry app. Looks like based on the reviews I am going to have to give TripIt a try.

I´ve usted Tripit - free version - for about 1 year without problems.
I´ve subscribed to Worldmate Gold for USD 49.- for 1 year but I don´t quite like it.
I feel more comfortable with Tripit. it picks up emails better and since I do not live in the USA, there are some things of Worldmate that I don´t need.

In view of this I will try to cancel mi Gold subscription to Worldmate and continue with tripit - free version for some time.

I too used the free version of TripIt and Worldmate. In the end, I settled on Tripit, because:
1) Tripit allows more control of notification emails. Worldmate sends confirmation emails for every new addition, which seemed goofy since things only get added when I add them.
2) Tripit lets you move or copy items from one itinerary to another, while Worldmate does not. This is an because both programs occassionally put stuff in the wrong itinerary.
3) While WorldMate has an application for WinMo (my platform), it frequently crashed my phone.
4) Worldmate provides no way to display itineraries in Outlook unless you the use Blackberry version. Tripit provides a calendar feed, which is not perfect, but better than nothing
5) Worldmate showed consistently inaccurate weather forecasts, and would not automatically show weather for my current location (TripIt does).
6) Tripit offered a year's subscription for $49, versus $129 for WorldMate

I was once the biggest fan of Worldmate and bought the blackberry and iPhone versions and pay for the gold membership, but I'm starting to move to the TripIt camp due to the excellent third-party support. If they came out with a true blackberry application, I'd never us Worldmate again.

On the iPhone there are many excellent third-party applications that work with your TripIt data, my favorite two, which I have purchased, are FlightTrack and Flight Update. They do the same thing, I can't decide which I like more.

I just use the free TripIt for the iPhone, which seems fine for my needs. Right now I just forward all my confirmations to both services and can freely use both apps. Until TripIt comes out with a Berry version, I can't bail on WorldMate completely.

I was a worldmate user for over a year, and their Blackberry app works really well. Since I switched from BB to an Android phone, worldmate is out of the question. TripIt allows some access, though somewhat limited compared to the BB or iPhone. So, for me, TripIt is it, until either worldmate or TripIt (or someone else) comes out with an Android itinerary app.

Does TripIt Pro offer SMS notifications?

When you're overseas with iPhone and not data roaming, email notifications aren't particularly useful. But SMS would be more useful.

My main interest in TripIt was to have easy formatting and printing of itineraries -- I had been doing it in a document with screenshots of maps and so on.

The TripIt printout did all that I expected, with confirmation codes and schedules. Does it check airline schedules in real-time and notify you? That could be useful but for leisure travel, the flights are just a small part of the complete trip itinerary.

Didn't really use the TripIt app. much because I didn't use international data roaming. And even when around Wifi, the itinerary viewed in mobile Safari looked better. I could better make out the map screenshots which I'd uploaded. But I also had the printout too.

Does TripIt Pro offer SMS notifications?

Yes, TripIt Pro offers SMS notifications. And they offer fine-grained controls over which notifications you want and how you want them.

My favorite notifications are the arrival/connection summaries. They time them so they arrive just as you reach your gate, so you walk off the plane and immediately know which gate/carousel to head to without having to hunt down a monitor. Not strictly necessary, but a very nice touch.

Also, I just got a flight delay notice for a UA flight. It was about a minute behind the robo-call from United (which makes sense, since United should notify you before telling any external subscribers like TripIt.) Sufficiently timely if, like me, you don't care for United's robo-calls and would prefer to disable them.

The other thing I like about TripIt Pro is the "alternate flights" functionality. Along with my flight delay SMS was a link to alternate flights that I could take and their estimated full-ness.

I ordered Pro as soon as they offered it for me, and it was good timing since I was a few days from starting a RTW trip. I had several friends who were joining me on the trip and had shared their TripIt itins with me.

I must have gotten 200 emails during that 10-day period about flight delays, most from flights that were no longer in the itins of those people. It was a complete nuisance, exacerbated by the fact that one thing TripIt doesn't do well is keep track of changes and duplicates in your itins.

I had two flights that were delayed, one of which I was never notified about and the other I received the message as I was boarding the now-three-hours-later flight.

I canceled as soon as I got back from the trip.

If TripIt would just let me punch in PNRs and then go parse all the info, I think it would be much more useful - especially if it kept track of changes automatically. That's something I would pay for!

I ordered Pro as soon as they offered it for me, and it was good timing since I was a few days from starting a RTW trip. I had several friends who were joining me on the trip and had shared their TripIt itins with me.

I must have gotten 200 emails during that 10-day period about flight delays, most from flights that were no longer in the itins of those people. It was a complete nuisance, exacerbated by the fact that one thing TripIt doesn't do well is keep track of changes and duplicates in your itins.

I had two flights that were delayed, one of which I was never notified about and the other I received the message as I was boarding the now-three-hours-later flight.

I canceled as soon as I got back from the trip.

If TripIt would just let me punch in PNRs and then go parse all the info, I think it would be much more useful - especially if it kept track of changes automatically. That's something I would pay for!
I agree completely. TripIt is a great concept with good execution, but if it could be more proactive I would gladly pay for the service.

Now that it is available worldwide I have upgraded to Tripit Pro.

It saved me from missing a flight earlier this week. I was on a delayed BA flight from LHR-EDI and got the SMS with the delay sent to me. I checked the board and the delay was the same. Fine, I'll sit in the Galleries South a little longer and have a couple of extra glasses of champagne :D

An hour later I got a another SMS saying PULLED IN. The delay had been reduced by 30 minutes and the flight was just about to board. The screen had been updated but I was sat in my own little world reading a book and having a few drinks.

If I hadn't got the text I would have missed the flight (my fault I know - but delays getting shorter is unheard of with BA at LHR!!) and the last flight home was full.

OK but if you had missed that flight because it didn't text you in time, would you have demanded your money back?;)

If you're anywhere at the airport, you would have access to flight status changes from other sources?

You can't see a departures screen from my little hidey-hole in the Galleries South! I was just settled in for the wait with the alarm on my phone set to alert me 20 mins before the original delayed time.

I wouldn't rely on tripit to keep me permenantly updated - this was just a case of it unexpectently getting me out of a potential hole of my own making.

Lately AA has been initially posting my DFW-LAS flights for terminal A then changing to terminal D. The TripIt SMS notice is about 20min behind the AA e-mail notice - this is still 2+ hrs before the flight. The "welcome to LAS . . . baggage claim xxx" notice hits by the time exit the plane. I haven't had to depend on it for a critical notice. I'm pretty sure the notices are through FlightStats' service - same as most non-airline services use.

I was using both the iPhone App and TripIt's mobile website - but the recent update to the iPhone app was significant! I'm really impressed with how much it improved. It's pretty much all I use now.

So, 8 trips after I originally asked "is it worth it?" . . . I started to answer that I still wasn't sure it's worth $70/yr, but then I started thinking "I really don't want to give it up". So I guess the answer is really "yes." It's just really convienent to have everything in one place and I don't have to update anyone who needs to know my plans.

It's still not everything I want but nothing else is either. Hopefully they keep adding functions and updates as significant as they did with the iPhone.

A very clever person would realize that if you have a friend with Tripit Pro and add them to your Tripit Amateur itins, you'll automatically get all the notifications and alerts without subscribing.

For me that's actually a problem and the reason I don't pay for it, but it might be convenient for people with an occasional need.

fyi - Last week, TripIt released an Android app, which has the same TripIt Pro features as the just-released iPhone app. BlackBerry app is in beta, and it will also have Pro features.

(I work for TripIt)

Surely--is there a way to help out beta testing that BB app??

sure, send email to feedback@tripit.com with "bb tester" in the subject line.

Works for me on the iPhone, and it's free......

There's a separate app. for Pro subscribers?

I've used the regular service for one trip and it's good but it's better to print out the itinerary than to view the info. in the app. because if you're overseas, you won't have a data connection.

One thing I did was create an itinerary with pictures of maps (screen shots which I uploaded from my computer).

I noticed the iPhone App. doesn't display these pictures, especially zooming in, as well as just opening the itinerary on Safari at the TripIt site.

Of course Safari doesn't cache sites, tries to reload so again, you need a data connection.

For the printout of the itinerary, more print formatting options might be nice. On a color printer, the theme of the printouts is a drab yellow.

Works for me on the iPhone, and it's free......

TripCase is a much more polished UI, and claims to work like I wish TripIt did (put in your PNR and they just handle it). Sadly, they can't seem to read Amadeus PNRs which makes it pretty much useless.

TripCase is a much more polished UI, and claims to work like I wish TripIt did (put in your PNR and they just handle it). Sadly, they can't seem to read Amadeus PNRs which makes it pretty much useless.

Gladly, all of our Corporate bookings are on Sabre, which work just fine :-)

There's a separate app. for Pro subscribers?

No, it's the same app, on all platforms. As the pro permissions change for a user, the new data is made available on the next refresh. Setting up SMS for alerts would take a little more of your time, I guess, but that's not managed by the apps.

For any feature requests, please send to feedback@tripit.com. There's so much we'd like to do, so all must be prioritised, pondered, etc.

Hmm, hadn't heard of TripCase but if it's from Sabre, it's got to be a bigger deal than TripIt.

Push notifications seem like a standout feature between the two.

Will have to see if it's worth opening another account (hate apps. which require you to register an account to use them).

TripCase is a much more polished UI, and claims to work like I wish TripIt did (put in your PNR and they just handle it). Sadly, they can't seem to read Amadeus PNRs which makes it pretty much useless.

I tried TripCase's windows app. Absolutely not ready for primetime:
1) Does not combine multiple emails into one trip based on dates
2) No way to move mis-filed trip elements
3) Not successful finding trips based on Continental confirmation numbers
4) No way to automatically add new trip elements to existing trips
5) Windows Std app doesn't consistently sync with their web site, so I had to re-add trips on the phone

They use a desktop app. instead of a web site?

So one trip can only have whichever email you forwarded first and can't add things like hotels, activities, rental cars, etc. like you can with Trip It, either with additional emails or manually adding activities on the web site?

I tried TripCase's windows app. Absolutely not ready for primetime:
1) Does not combine multiple emails into one trip based on dates
2) No way to move mis-filed trip elements
3) Not successful finding trips based on Continental confirmation numbers
4) No way to automatically add new trip elements to existing trips
5) Windows Std app doesn't consistently sync with their web site, so I had to re-add trips on the phone

Is this the Windows mobile App?

Seems to work fine on the iphone - but it doesn't read emails? Do you mean TripCase or TripIt?

They use a desktop app. instead of a web site?
No, sorry, web site.

So one trip can only have whichever email you forwarded first and can't add things like hotels, activities, rental cars, etc. like you can with Trip It, either with additional emails or manually adding activities on the web site?
Correct, that was my experience.

Is this the Windows mobile App?

Seems to work fine on the iphone - but it doesn't read emails? Do you mean TripCase or TripIt?

Correct, their app for Windows Mobile Standard (non-touchscreen).

I mean TripCase - it reads emails fine, but I could not get it to combine multiple emails into one trip the way TripIt does.

We've built a new service called traxo.com that is currently in beta (and totally free) that automatically imports your trips from travelsites where you book travel so that you don't have to constantly email confirmation emails. We are relatively new but are looking for some beta users to help us test the product and provide feedback.

-Andy

Let me chime in that I've known the two co-founders of Traxo over quite a few years and commend them for yet another idea toward helping us all manage our travel. As Andy points out, they are beta so there are likely some areas that need refinement and if there are members of FlyerTalk that can assist them in their growth, I heartily support that. As Andy points out, similar to TripIt but at least one twist being that they search and import your rez, you don't have to do anything. I am a champion of TripIt, I'll make that clear but did see a snag recently when a rez of mine got caught up in as spam trap and i wasn't aware soon enough of it to forward to TripIt.

Andy, welcome to FlyerTalk.
We've built a new service called traxo.com that is currently in beta (and totally free) that automatically imports your trips from travelsites where you book travel so that you don't have to constantly email confirmation emails. We are relatively new but are looking for some beta users to help us test the product and provide feedback.

-Andy

"Don't have to do anything"? Not quite. You'd have to give Traxo the credentials to each travel site you use. Which is about as much work and less secure than setting up a filter to forward confirmation messages from those same travel sites.

Correct, their app for Windows Mobile Standard (non-touchscreen).

I mean TripCase - it reads emails fine, but I could not get it to combine multiple emails into one trip the way TripIt does.


I'm confused :confused:

TripCase doesn't read emails - it will import from Record Locators and I have imported multiple locators into one trip. This is the iPhone version, but the functionality seems the same with Windows.

TripIt requires you to mail in your confirmations which it parses into trips. Are you sure you're talking about the right application?

TripCase certainly does read mails. After they couldn't find ANY of my PNRs they asked me to forward them the confirmation mail. I did so, and got immediate confirmation that it was received but could take "several hours" to process. The trip showed up about 2 hours later, titled "Los Angeles trip" with the same dates as one called "LA Trip" that I had created manually. I'm pretty sure they have a human inputting those emails. :)

It's a shame that they can't read more than Sabre PNRs. That really limits the utility.

Nowhere in the Tripcase app, online or in my phone, can I see any mention of any functionality to mail in itins a la TripIt.

Maybe this is old functionality they they couldn't get to work and it's been dropped?

I didn't get a confirmation mail when I signed up about 8 weeks ago, just an email verification request and that was it. Since then I've put about 12 trips in and all had been well.

What's confusing? Put in a PNR and if they don't recognize it, you see:

We are unable to import your booking. If your trip was booked directly with an airline, please forward your confirmation email to trips@tripcase.com, and we will import the trip into your account.

Here we have the nub of the problem.....

All my the trips I've entered so far have been from my Corp. TA, who use Sabre. Everything has been pulled in from the PNR with no problems, so I've never seen the email message

The mail in fallback facility isn't mentioned anywhere on the TripCase site.

So, a useful app if your TAs or Airline system is supported, not much use if it isn't!

Still a ^ from me.

It's a brilliant app. Wouldn't it be nice if they were to show up and talk about their plans for the future here on FT. :)

sorry, i was merely referring to ongoing maintenance once the setup is done. Appreciate the chance to clarify. Per my note, filters only work if you actually receive the confirmation message. Thanks.
"Don't have to do anything"? Not quite. You'd have to give Traxo the credentials to each travel site you use. Which is about as much work and less secure than setting up a filter to forward confirmation messages from those same travel sites.

Per my note, filters only work if you actually receive the confirmation message.

Yes, but why are you not receiving the confirmation message? Because you didn't make the reservation? Meaning someone else did on their account? If that's the case, you're not going to have the login credentials for the other account, so it would seem to me you're in the same position as with a service such as TripIt. And in these cases, it's a lot easier to get the purchaser to forward you a duplicate confirmation message straight from the purchase page, which would give TripIt the advantage.

OK, booked a flight this morning, forwarded to Tripit and within 5 minutes, it's imported.

Registered with TripCase and looked around for an email address to forward my flight confirmation. Had to manually create a Trip and then try to add before I found it.

Got a reply saying it would take up to 24 hours to import.

So far, TripIt 1, TripCase 0.

I have been using tripit for almost a year and I can't for the life of me fathom how I managed to keep track of my travel before I started using it!

I fly roughly 4 sectors per week, book 2 hotels, at least one rental car, two airport pre-booked car parks etc etc (you get the idea!).

Previously, I was travelling around with endless printouts, now I just consult the Tripit mobile view in the browser on my Blackberry. My wife and colleagues can also keep track of my movements at a glance.

I am a founder-subscriber to Tripit Pro, and to be honest I haven't got a great deal of incremental benefit from it yet, but I am happy to contribute $49/year to Tripit in recognition of the extraordinary value I am getting from the service in general.

I am hoping that there are great new features to come with the Pro service.

I have been using tripit for almost a year and I can't for the life of me fathom how I managed to keep track of my travel before I started using it!

I agree with you. Tripit has been a life saver. Definitely can't do without!

OK it took TripCase about 15 minutes more to create the trip and populate the flight info. than TripIt.

Now I reviewed the trip info in the iPhone App. Maybe I'm missing something but I go into the trip and in the Main tab, it only shows the first of 4 segments for the flight I booked.

There is a manage tab and that is where you see all 4 segments.

I'll build my itinerary in both and see what the final results are.

You can swipe the first segment to see the others.

I have been using tripit for almost a year and I can't for the life of me fathom how I managed to keep track of my travel before I started using it!

I fly roughly 4 sectors per week, book 2 hotels, at least one rental car, two airport pre-booked car parks etc etc (you get the idea!).

Previously, I was travelling around with endless printouts, now I just consult the Tripit mobile view in the browser on my Blackberry. My wife and colleagues can also keep track of my movements at a glance.

I am a founder-subscriber to Tripit Pro, and to be honest I haven't got a great deal of incremental benefit from it yet, but I am happy to contribute $49/year to Tripit in recognition of the extraordinary value I am getting from the service in general.

I am hoping that there are great new features to come with the Pro service.

Am a huge fan too and thing the greatest value of the Pro feature is the text messages reminding me to print boarding pass, tell me what gate to go to, update me about schedule changes, tell me what baggage carrosel etc. Worth every penny if you travel much.

I love tripit, it has made arranging trips for my husband and me a lot easier, and it's nice to know who is where when. I looked up this thread because I just wanted to throw my wish out into the interether--

At the moment, I'm happy with the free version of Tripit, and use it on the website and my iphone. None of the paid features are particularly useful/exciting to me. What *would* get me to cough up the money would be an improved change verification service of some kind. We frequently book flights way in advance, and then end up rebooking something similar but on slightly different dates. With the way my auto forwards are set up, they all just end up in one trip, so it looks like I'm flying from Boston to London on both Friday and Saturday, for example.

I just wonder how much it would cost them to hire online support assistants that review accounts of the pro folks and make changes that a human could predict, but a computer can't. For example, I add a trip, a line pops up on a website "call center" place somewhere, they see that I already have a trip just like it but a day earlier, and they can either flag for very easy deletion, or delete the duplicate.

I don't know how feasible it is, but our Christmas plans were all over the shop, changing because of crazy cold and snow in Europe. By the end of it, the Tripit itinerary was pretty much worthless. I know I could go in and remove things by hand, but especially if the changes are happening while you're already traveling, that's something that I would pay a bit to have taken care of for me.

First discovered TripIt when I clicked on their ad while buying a VX ticket.

It's been invaluable- it integrates to Google's Calendar (which means it shows up on my Android phone seamlessly and can be shared with other Google Calendar users) and the mobile site pulls up very quickly on my phone. Between their text-messaging and Google Calendar's Notifications, I'm kept quite up-to-date on everything, including WN's "race-to-the-A group" check-in time.

I'm doing the same trip every week using almost all the same carriers (and hotel and car-rental) so it's mostly a reminder (vs. some who have complex trips every week).

Are there any Canadian Tripit Pro users? I've been unable to successfully register my Bell Mobility mobile for mobile alerts. Canada is not on the supported country list (so I used USA), but it's not on the unsupported list either.

UPDATE: Just heard back from Tripit Support on Canadian SMS support, who say they "ultimately decided -- based on the time and money it would require -- that we couldn't do it for now".

They suggest SMS email as an alternative, which is slower, particularly if you don't have push notification.

During a serious of delays, gate change and more delays I was posting in the AA forum when I recieved an AA e-mail on my iPhone vs. when the SMS from Tripit arrived. The net result was the e-mails were about 5min ahead of the SMS messages. But because I have a tone/vibrate associated with the SMS I was actively aware when they arrived.

I have received incorrect gate information from Tripit so I'm now in the habit of noticing the text message and confirming the info via AA's e-mail.

First discovered TripIt when I clicked on their ad while buying a VX ticket.

It's been invaluable- it integrates to Google's Calendar (which means it shows up on my Android phone seamlessly and can be shared with other Google Calendar users) and the mobile site pulls up very quickly on my phone. Between their text-messaging and Google Calendar's Notifications, I'm kept quite up-to-date on everything, including WN's "race-to-the-A group" check-in time.

I'm doing the same trip every week using almost all the same carriers (and hotel and car-rental) so it's mostly a reminder (vs. some who have complex trips every week).

Subscribed to my TripIt calender in my Google Calender. So I can see it in iPhone.

However, the events from my TripIt itinerary do not have the default notifications I set up in my Google Calender. So I'd have to manually add notifications for each TripIt event or activity.

Tricky thing is, TripIt seems to automatically adjust the time zone for where I am. But in the Google Calender, will the time zone be adjusted as well? Otherwise, no point in setting up notifications, including SMS notifications.

We frequently book flights way in advance, and then end up rebooking something similar but on slightly different dates. With the way my auto forwards are set up, they all just end up in one trip, so it looks like I'm flying from Boston to London on both Friday and Saturday, for example.

Agreed. My current itinerary shows the cancelled flight from Thursday/Map of Las Vegas then Saturday's replacement flight and another map of Las Vegas. It would at least be nice to be able to delete items from the phone app.

However, the events from my TripIt itinerary do not have the default notifications I set up in my Google Calender. So I'd have to manually add notifications for each TripIt event or activity.


I find that I have to remove the notifications in google calendar, otherwise I get pop-ups and email for every single event I imported from the tripit calendar.

Did the subscribe to the other calendar work for you, or did you mean the actual import from the tripit ical link?

I tried the subscribe, but didn't see how to get the entries transferred to outlook, so I ended up using the import method, which creates all sorts of problems when things change.

-David

I added it to Google Calender by entering the .ics URL.

Each event if I look at the details show no reminders set.

Maybe that's just as well.

I added it to Google Calender by entering the .ics URL.

Each event if I look at the details show no reminders set.

Maybe that's just as well.

I wish mine did that.

It's kind of annoying for my ipod touch, my iphone and my laptop to all give annoying alerts for the same non-event if I forget to edit them.

Anyone try Kayak? Apparently now they also do itineraries and much more, such as fare tracking.

I haven't downloaded their iPhone app. yet but it sounds like a one-stop shop. And there's something about SMS alerts and no mention of a premium service.

So maybe they inundate you with ads.

Is TripIt free version available for your PC? If so any link for download. A bing search yielded a bunch of sources for download to various phones. Noted also you can use it online ( I prefer to keep my itin on PC).

Tripit is an online tool. You can print your itinerary to a PDF file on your laptop. That capability is part of the Mac OS, but there are Windows and Linux utilities which will achieve the same result.

Tripit is an online tool. You can print your itinerary to a PDF file on your laptop. That capability is part of the Mac OS, but there are Windows and Linux utilities which will achieve the same result.

Thanks for the heads-up.

I have been using TripIt for about a year now.

Absolutely fantastic -- especially with the large iPhone screen.

However, to be honest, I mostly used the paid FlightTrack application -- I think it was about $5. It synchs with TripIt (so I can import itineraries via email) but also gives me accurate, up-to-date gate and time information.

It has saved me at least twice when there crazy last minute gate changes. And you can enable push notification, which is nice.

The only complaint I have is that FlightTrack does not do cruises or car rentals -- otherwise it would be perfect! I'm now trying another one, TripDeck, from the same compay. This one alledgedly does cruises, car rentals, etc, and synchs with Tripit. BUt I gotta say: the interface is too confusing for me. FlightTrack still rules.

So, for now, I use the TripIt app (because it shows itinerary price), FlighTrack (because it gives me flightstatus), and TripDeck (because it does car rentals and cruises).

Just hoping it could all be merged...

These guys need to pool together, talk to some FTers who do lots of travelling and do this RIGHT, before someone else comes and eats their market.

I wish mine did that.

It's kind of annoying for my ipod touch, my iphone and my laptop to all give annoying alerts for the same non-event if I forget to edit them.

There is a default reminder setting in Outlook under Tools - Options.

I have been using TripIt for about a year now.

Absolutely fantastic -- especially with the large iPhone screen.

However, to be honest, I mostly used the paid FlightTrack application -- I think it was about $5. It synchs with TripIt (so I can import itineraries via email) but also gives me accurate, up-to-date gate and time information.

It has saved me at least twice when there crazy last minute gate changes. And you can enable push notification, which is nice.

The only complaint I have is that FlightTrack does not do cruises or car rentals -- otherwise it would be perfect! I'm now trying another one, TripDeck, from the same compay. This one alledgedly does cruises, car rentals, etc, and synchs with Tripit. BUt I gotta say: the interface is too confusing for me. FlightTrack still rules.

So, for now, I use the TripIt app (because it shows itinerary price), FlighTrack (because it gives me flightstatus), and TripDeck (because it does car rentals and cruises).

Just hoping it could all be merged...

I have TripIt Pro; TripTracker (Pageonce); Kayak; Flight Caster; FlightTrack; AA

TripIt Pro is by far the most useful (and most expensive). I have however, found one area where TripTracker (and now AA) trump it. TripTracker actually logs into your accounts and updates vs. you sending in an e-mail.

If you change or cancel a flight, TripTracker picks it up immediately. With TripIt you have to make a manual change. Along the same lines, if you forget to forward the confirmation e-mail to TripIt, you're out of luck.

TripTracker lacks alternative flight information. However, you can setup more than one account to be tracked, i.e. both my AA and my wife's AA accounts.

Kayak is great for pricing flights but I prefer TripIt Pro and TripTracker for everything else.

I was disapointed with FlightTrack and don't feel it offers much beyond what the TripIt app can now do. Between FlightTrack and TripTracker I would definitely take TripTracker.

If TripIt offered the same account sync as TripTracker plus continuing to be able to e-mail anything that couldn't sync - it would be TripIt Pro all the way. Having said that, I really do like TripTracker. TripIt Pro's iPhone app has come a long way this last year. Perhaps TripTracker will catch up or pass them this next year. :)

NOTE: TripTracker is by PageOnce (http://www.pageonce.com/triptracker_iphone.html). There are other travel apps by the same name so it's a bit confusing.

Can someone with FlightTrack Pro comment on TripDeck - which is made by the same company. Seems like they both do the same thing and allow imports from TripIt right? Does the data for FlightTrack come from Flightstats?

If one uses Gmail then TripIt (and Pro) can now log in to your account for you to read emails rather than requiring the reservations to be forwarded. They also apparently have fixed the issue with changing reservations so that they are no longer dupes though I haven't tried that yet.

I've been trying out Kayak Trips at the encouragement of a friend who works there and it has a few bugs as well. Hopefully they'll get resolved.

If one uses Gmail then TripIt (and Pro) can now log in to your account for you ...

I saw that, and I kind of drew the line around that one. How much trust do you want to extend to them? (I know, the context was a reply to the post above yours.)

I also keep my trips private.

I guess that level of integration (auto email reading, giving them your account login/password) isn't that important to everybody, some of us prefer to manage that manually, by deciding which confirmation emails to forward to the app.

-David

I saw that, and I kind of drew the line around that one. How much trust do you want to extend to them? (I know, the context was a reply to the post above yours.)

I also keep my trips private.

I guess that level of integration (auto email reading, giving them your account login/password) isn't that important to everybody, some of us prefer to manage that manually, by deciding which confirmation emails to forward to the app.

-DavidAgreed. But for folks who like the idea of Traxo or TripTracker or such who like that the system can read your accounts and are willing to trust it the feature is nice.

I saw that, and I kind of drew the line around that one. How much trust do you want to extend to them? (I know, the context was a reply to the post above yours.)

I also keep my trips private.

I guess that level of integration (auto email reading, giving them your account login/password) isn't that important to everybody, some of us prefer to manage that manually, by deciding which confirmation emails to forward to the app.

-David

You could just create a new free GMail account for all your trip confirmations, auto-fwd those to your main e-mail account, and link TripIt to your travel gmail account.

Five minute setup keeps your privacy and eliminates astep in the TripIt process permanently.

Got this email today -

Sign up for TripIt Pro and get a complimentary one-year membership to Hertz #1 Club Gold, plus other VIP partner benefits, new airfare refund tracking and a lower price of $49 a year.

Got this email today -

Sign up for TripIt Pro and get a complimentary one-year membership to Hertz #1 Club Gold, plus other VIP partner benefits, new airfare refund tracking and a lower price of $49 a year.

I got the email too. Upgrading for $49 to TripIt Pro would also include a complimentary 1-year membership to Regus Gold. Is that a valuable benefit?

Just got a Droid (love it!!) recently and I love the TripIt App. If TripIt Pro is $49/yr, is it worth it?

I love Tripit Pro. I have it setup so it sweeps my email account (that I only use forvtravel reservations) and it automatically adds them in to tripit for me, so I don't need to do the forwarding thing anymore. It's been pretty good, I find out about changes to flights before Delta officially notifies me, which has been helpful and I love having my confirmation numbers etc, all in one place. The only negative is the amount of emails I receive is a bit annoying, and it never picks up my seat changes. Other than that, for me it works great and I will keep using it.

I love Tripit Pro. I have it setup so it sweeps my email account (that I only use forvtravel reservations) and it automatically adds them in to tripit for me, so I don't need to do the forwarding thing anymore.

I think that's a feature of the regular version of tripit. You don't need "pro" for that.

-David

I really like the basic service but I can't see every paying for Pro.

But if enough people think like this, can the service stay afloat?

I would put up with ads. Seems strange that they're sticking with the premium model but no ads.

I got the email too. Upgrading for $49 to TripIt Pro would also include a complimentary 1-year membership to Regus Gold. Is that a valuable benefit?

Just got a Droid (love it!!) recently and I love the TripIt App. If TripIt Pro is $49/yr, is it worth it?

depends on if you can use it. they have lounges and office worldwide. the lounges have internet access for free, and sometimes coffee and snacks. Sort of nice to know you can pretty much walk into an office in any major/minor city and have a quite place and email and coffee for free.

Also, cheap booking of actual work rooms and conference rooms. Photocopying, etc. For 49$, this is a pretty good benefit.

Apparently that regus trial is available for non-pro members also, albeit for a 90 day trial, rather than a 1 year trial, at least according to the tripit press release ...

http://www.tripit.com/press/2010/09/new-alliance-offers-tripit-customers-access-to-more-than-1100-regus-business-centers-worldwide/

I'm still trying to find the added value in their pro level.

I'm still trying to find the added value in their pro level.

One of the new features listed is flight refunds, which are apparently partial refunds of your paid fares--assuming that the airline lowers the price of the seat after you book. Tripit monitors this and notifies you so that you can go get your refund. I wonder how often this happens--does anyone have experience with flight refunds in general?

One of the new features listed is flight refunds, which are apparently partial refunds of your paid fares--assuming that the airline lowers the price of the seat after you book. Tripit monitors this and notifies you so that you can go get your refund. I wonder how often this happens--does anyone have experience with flight refunds in general?

Actually, more often than you'd think--IF you fly the right airlines. To my knowledge, the only two airlines that allow unlimited, unrestricted refunds (actually, credits toward future travel) from fare drops are Alaska and JetBlue. All other airlines that offer refunds charge a change fee, so it only makes sense when the fare drop is more than the change fee, which is far less often. I've gotten a total of about $105 in credits from AS in the last couple of years.

From what I understand, this benefit of TripIt is actually handled by Yapta (http://www.yapta.com). You can do it yourself there if you don't want to do it through TripIt. (Yapta can also import reservations from TripIt, but it's a bit buggy in my experience.)

Anyway, I have significant travel in the upcoming few months, especially in the next 30 days (starting this afternoon). I just activated my 30-day trial of TripIt Pro and will see if I find it useful enough to cough up the $49 after the trial is over. I suspect I won't--primarily on the basis of it not automatically keeping my itineraries updated directly from the travel vendors. I would strongly prefer to give TripIt access to my accounts (perhaps I'm too trusting, but I've never been bitten, knock on wood) and have them monitor the accounts for changes. As it stands now, I've had to really mess with my TripIt itineraries every time I've had a schedule change or rebooked a flight/train/hotel/car or something, and it gets tedious. It also makes me have to think twice before trusting what the TripIt app on my iPhone tells me is my next segment or whatever, because I'm never really sure if I've properly deleted and re-imported the correct itineraries.

Still, it serves as a useful reference. But in case anyone from TripIt is listening: I probably won't pay for Pro after this month's travel, but I definitely would if it featured live importing of itineraries and tracking of changes directly with the vendors (a la PageOnce/TripTracker).

Actually, more often than you'd think--IF you fly the right airlines. To my knowledge, the only two airlines that allow unlimited, unrestricted refunds (actually, credits toward future travel) from fare drops are Alaska and JetBlue. All other airlines that offer refunds charge a change fee, so it only makes sense when the fare drop is more than the change fee, which is far less often. I've gotten a total of about $105 in credits from AS in the last couple of years.


WN will do it also as a credit, but is a bit more cumbersome as you must rebook at the new, lower fare and request credit for the original fare.

I really like the basic service but I can't see every paying for Pro.

But if enough people think like this, can the service stay afloat?

I would put up with ads. Seems strange that they're sticking with the premium model but no ads.

I remember seeing ads in the iPhone app (before I upgraded). It didn't really bother me; I upgraded because I wanted to show my support. Living in Europe, all the Pro features are pretty much useless to me anyway.

In my limited experience over the past month the Kayak Trips feature is pretty solid in terms of offering many of the TripIt Pro features for free. Definitely worth looking at as an option.

So, my experience today:

Having the email and text alerts of connecting gates was nice, but that feature in and of itself is not worth the money. It's also something I can get for free when flying my home carrier, AS. In today's case, I was flying DL but using my AS MP number, so DL.com wouldn't track my itinerary or offer flight alert texts/emails, which did make it useful. However, all of my other travel this year will be on AS, where these alerts will come to me automatically.

The alternate flight data is kinda fun to play with, but ultimately, I don't think it will be all that useful for me. When flying DL, the DL website offers me all of these rebooking options automatically (and I can even take care of the rebooking myself on DL.com while still onboard the delayed flight, thanks to Gogo!). And when flying AS, the route network and schedules are so simple that I don't really need to reference something like this to know my options (unless I want to ask them to endorse my ticket over to another carrier).

I think the thing that completely killed my desire to pay for this service, though, is exactly what I suspected would above: the lack of real-time access to my reservations. One of my DL flights had had an equipment swap (from mainline to DL Connection), which involved the flight number changing, despite the departure time remaining the same. Somehow this change slid by me without me remembering to update the record in TripIt. Therefore, TripIt got confused about the connection and didn't send me any updates about that flight.

TripIt is slick, and the way it allows my itineraries to be packaged together for easy reference and posts updates on my Facebook wall make it a great tool, but without real-time access to reservations (either by looking up each reservation by its confirmation number or by monitoring my accounts for new reservations, a la PageOnce), it's not worth paying for.

In my limited experience over the past month the Kayak Trips feature is pretty solid in terms of offering many of the TripIt Pro features for free. Definitely worth looking at as an option.

So you forward email confirmations and it builds itineraries like TripIt?

Because that's all I'm interested in (or not willing to pay for real-time flight data).

So you forward email confirmations and it builds itineraries like TripIt?

Because that's all I'm interested in (or not willing to pay for real-time flight data).
Correct. In addition to the "typical" itinerary stuff they display you can also get delay/gate-change alerts for free, too.

The alternate flight data is kinda fun to play with, but ultimately, I don't think it will be all that useful for me. When flying DL, the DL website offers me all of these rebooking options automatically (and I can even take care of the rebooking myself on DL.com while still onboard the delayed flight, thanks to Gogo!). And when flying AS, the route network and schedules are so simple that I don't really need to reference something like this to know my options (unless I want to ask them to endorse my ticket over to another carrier).


Personally I've found the alternate flight data to be incredibly useful as someone who primarily flies UA. UA's website and rebooking processes are archaic and manual, and when it's Friday afternoon, your flight has gone MX, all the directs are way overbooked, and you want to get home, being able to have TripIt tell you that there are three seats SFO-ORD via MCI or something and feed that info to a CSR to be rebooked quickly makes a huge difference (to me). Using that function even once in a calendar year is worth 50 bucks to me.

I also am a fan of the network feature - I have my colleagues and friends in there and when we're going to intersect someplace it makes it easy to plan dinner or drinks or something together.

Personally I've found the alternate flight data to be incredibly useful as someone who primarily flies UA. UA's website and rebooking processes are archaic and manual, and when it's Friday afternoon, your flight has gone MX, all the directs are way overbooked, and you want to get home, being able to have TripIt tell you that there are three seats SFO-ORD via MCI or something and feed that info to a CSR to be rebooked quickly makes a huge difference (to me). Using that function even once in a calendar year is worth 50 bucks to me.

I also am a fan of the network feature - I have my colleagues and friends in there and when we're going to intersect someplace it makes it easy to plan dinner or drinks or something together.

As I mentioned above, this is less of an attractive benefit flying AS, but I can see how it might be useful for me if I need to get somewhere and AS is willing to endorse the ticket over to another airline.

As for the network feature, I think the little bit that alerts you when you are near someone in your network happens even in the free version.

Worldmate Pro is on sale right now for $.99 for a holiday special. For that price, its worth purchasing it and giving it a go to see if you like it! I mainly use TripIt but now I can compare the two. Haven't used Worldmate for over a year.

I think that's a feature of the regular version of tripit. You don't need "pro" for that.

-David

I cannot see where this is available on the free version. That function may swing the vote for me. The multiple emails per trip is a hassle if you do several trips a week. Any tips on how to find it in the free version are appreciated.

I'm not sure if it's part of the free version or paid, but I believe it only works with a Gmail account. I've seen this before, but have never used it as I don't really use Gmail. That would be convenient if you were on the road weekly.

http://help.tripit.com/entries/231585-how-to-get-started-with-auto-import

Travel a lot between UK, USA and GCC so I bought the TripIt Pro recently (for $39) as the new value-added features really do seems useful:

- PointTracker keeps track of all your frequent flyer programs, and warns about expiry of airmiles and other points

- SMS alerts (useful considering roaming net charges are so high)

- Regus Gold - invaluable for any business traveller

- Auto-sharing so my wife will always have a copy of my complicated travel plans

BUT then Worldmate sends me an promo email and slashes the price for Gold on the iPhone. $0.99 is a tempting price but the features offered are just nowhere near as good as the above-mentioned extras that you get. See the comparisons on their website:

http://www.worldmate.com/faq_3.php

For iphone-ers they only offer pushed flight alerts - not SMS - which means having expensive roaming enabled on your phone wherever you go.

So yes, Worldmate and it's Gold version are much cheaper, but the extras for TripIt Pro are worth the money in my mind.

I cannot see where this is available on the free version. That function may swing the vote for me. The multiple emails per trip is a hassle if you do several trips a week. Any tips on how to find it in the free version are appreciated.

The auto-email integration is absolutely available in the free version but only if you use Gmail. It basically polls your email account from time to time and if there are travel-related emails it imports them. I've found it to be mostly functional but less so if I'm filing/archiving messages such that I don't bother with that feature really anymore.

You can configure it here: http://www.tripit.com/uhp/autoImport.

The auto-email integration is absolutely available in the free version but only if you use Gmail. It basically polls your email account from time to time and if there are travel-related emails it imports them. I've found it to be mostly functional but less so if I'm filing/archiving messages such that I don't bother with that feature really anymore.

You can configure it here: http://www.tripit.com/uhp/autoImport.

I turned it off because friends would forward me their itineraries and then TripIt would load their itineraries into My Trips and subsequently notify my Facebook friends that I was beginning a trip to Hawaii or Sitges or Rio or something.

I REALLY wish they would enable auto-importing from loyalty program logins like PageOnce/Trip Tracker does.

....
I REALLY wish they would enable auto-importing from loyalty program logins like PageOnce/Trip Tracker does.

^^^

Someone mentioned Yapta earlier in the thread and after reading it I created a free account on there and put in a bunch of flights I'm doing this week, including a crazy $1400 one-way AA Y-class ticket from MIA to CCS, it was the last seat on that flight.

Sure enough a few days later I get an email from them saying the price has changed and they literally tell you exactly what to do, step by step, ie:

1. "Call this number: 800.xxx.xxxx)" (AA reservations)
2. Tell them on your itinerary "xx" that the fare has dropped to $xx

I just blindly followed the directions thinking there was probably 1/5 chance of this really working since sometimes crazy fares show up for just a few minutes, but sure enough, the AA woman sighed and said "Yes, your fare went down" and rebooked me at ~$900 and said a credit would appear on my CC, and indeed it already has two days later. $500 back.

I didn't get a change fee, but I think I had a Y ticket originally. I didn't think to look but I'm guessing the new ticket isn't Y-class.

The interface for Yapta is decent and it can auto-import your TripIt trips and you just have to plug in the purchase price, which is pretty painless and it's free.

I'm a believer now!

I'm on Windows Phone 7, so I'm using "My Trips" for Windows Phone (http://acewidgets.com/my-trips/) (Zune link to install it here (http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=76ed9db6-d201-e011-9264-00237de2db9e)).

I've also installed TripMate247, but haven't used it to track flights. Has anyone used this service and how do you think it compares with TripIt so far?

Thanks,
Dan

Been reading this thread and have been testing out all the possible apps to use myself. I've tried TripCase and Worldmate as well, and while they seem to be more versatile I found the interface to be far too clunky and non-intuitive for my tastes. Worldmate also failed to extract 3 out of the 4 confirmation emails I've sent it, so it doesn't really work as a time saver.

In the end I'm finding TripTracker to be very aesthetically pleasing to use, and like the fact that it imports details from my TripIt account. So while I use TripIt to aggregate my travel data, I actually use TripTracker to read through my itinerary. I'm also testing out FlightTrack and Flight Update, but I'm torn as to what I should stick with.

TripIt seems to provide a good platform for these apps though, and using TripIt Pro might add even more to that, but I don't know. I wish someone would just make an all in one app and be done with it. :p

I REALLY wish they would enable auto-importing from loyalty program logins like PageOnce/Trip Tracker does.

I suspect if nothing else we'll see improved auto-importing with Concur at some stage in the future...

http://www.tripit.com/press/2011/01/concur-to-acquire-tripit-the-leading-provider-of-mobile-services-for-the-business-traveler/

Nice for those of us that use Concur for work travel :)

I suspect if nothing else we'll see improved auto-importing with Concur at some stage in the future...

http://www.tripit.com/press/2011/01/concur-to-acquire-tripit-the-leading-provider-of-mobile-services-for-the-business-traveler/

Nice for those of us that use Concur for work travel :)

^

Apologies if this is redundant with a prior comment (there are 7 pages of comments).

In the last year I've migrated from BB to Droid and have been on Tripit and Worldmate on both platforms.

From my experience, you can't compare these two applications without taking into account which platform. For me, the WM BB platform is clean and clearly better. On the Droid, the I think that TripIt has is ahead as you can search for alt flights and it can drive a google calendar feed That said, I much prefer the look of WM over TripIt. If WM can get the BB functionality on Droid, I'd do it exclusively. Unfortunately, right now I am TripIt Pro and WM regular to get to what I want/need.

^


Hi, back on FT after hammering away on our app for the past few months.

We just finished setting up a way for TripIt users to check in and download mobile boarding passes directly from the TripIt itinerary. As before, Airside Express (With TripIt) is iPhone only, free, and works for UA, AA, DL, CO, and AA.

Here's the link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airside-express/id345202561?mt=8

Regarding previous feedback from FT'ers, we worked hard on improving reliability and ease of use and are fully PCI compliant (in process of getting even more stringent PCI certification). Would LOVE more feedback...

Thanks,
Hans
(Airside Mobile)

Ugh. TripIt Pro is nearly worthless to me right now. In fact, it's driving me crazy.

I did a same-day change on my itinerary this morning. Of course, TripIt didn't know about it (despite the PNR being updated on alaskaair.com), so all day I've been receiving delay alerts about my old itinerary. Then, the flight I changed to had weather delays and ended up diverting, but of course TripIt was worthless in that situation and kept sending me texts about my old itinerary. Intermixed with those texts were texts from FlightStats.com (who AS partners with for flight alerts) about my new itinerary, so it got confusing trying to see which flights were delayed/changed/canceled.

Due to the delay, I've now been rebooked to continue my trip Saturday night. Yet I'm still receiving TripIt delay alerts about the flight I would have been on tonight.

If TripIt is listening, YOU GUYS REALLY NEED TO GET REAL-TIME MONITORING OF PNRs ASAP!

I'm definitely not renewing my subscription if this is not implemented. I might even call and ask for a refund of my TripIt Pro payment due to its extreme inadequacy.

I suspect if nothing else we'll see improved auto-importing with Concur at some stage in the future...

http://www.tripit.com/press/2011/01/concur-to-acquire-tripit-the-leading-provider-of-mobile-services-for-the-business-traveler/

Nice for those of us that use Concur for work travel :)

tripit sent emails about the acquisition today. Well, at least I got one.


The innovation and customer service that you've come to expect from TripIt won't change and basic TripIt will remain free. Continue to use TripIt and TripIt Pro as they are today to organize and manage your travel. If anything, expect the pace of improvements to increase.


http://blog.tripit.com/2011/01/tripit-joins-concur-to-become-bigger-better-and-stronger.html

I hope that is true.

Ugh. TripIt Pro is nearly worthless to me right now. In fact, it's driving me crazy.

I did a same-day change on my itinerary this morning. Of course, TripIt didn't know about it (despite the PNR being updated on alaskaair.com), so all day I've been receiving delay alerts about my old itinerary. Then, the flight I changed to had weather delays and ended up diverting, but of course TripIt was worthless in that situation and kept sending me texts about my old itinerary. Intermixed with those texts were texts from FlightStats.com (who AS partners with for flight alerts) about my new itinerary, so it got confusing trying to see which flights were delayed/changed/canceled.

Due to the delay, I've now been rebooked to continue my trip Saturday night. Yet I'm still receiving TripIt delay alerts about the flight I would have been on tonight.

If TripIt is listening, YOU GUYS REALLY NEED TO GET REAL-TIME MONITORING OF PNRs ASAP!

I'm definitely not renewing my subscription if this is not implemented. I might even call and ask for a refund of my TripIt Pro payment due to its extreme inadequacy.

Exactly. The offline model developed by Tripit makes it useless. Apps depending on this model are also useless because of their dependence on Tripit.

Exactly. The offline model developed by Tripit makes it useless. Apps depending on this model are also useless because of their dependence on Tripit.

Good point. On Airside, the user can still download itinerary and MBP by selecting the airline instead of using the TripIt download, and that approach handles same-day changes. But yeah, you need to know to do that -- not intuitive.

Hmm.... Something else to work on!

Does anyone know if the TripIt iphone app still has all your flight info if you aren't connected to wireless or a phone network (3G, Edge, etc.)?

Edit: Just tried it. Seems to pull up the info. It doesn't update if there were any changes from the last time I was connected, or if I went in and changed something on the tripit website before it got to update.

Although TripIt is a great application, after attempting to use it for a few trips I just find it overkill.

Realistically, I have all my email confirmations on my iphone, photos of any documents required, and access to my dropbox file for backup copies of ID, itinerary etc.

Failing that, evernote for iphone is a great way to track a trip.

Hate digging this up again, but wondering what the latest is I'm either giving or getting some travel-related gifts over the holidays.

$50 for TripIt Pro doesn't seem to offer a lot of value compared to AwardWallet or other tools that are cheaper. Alternative opinions out there or deals to make the $50 become $25? If so then it becomes more palatable.

Although TripIt is a great application, after attempting to use it for a few trips I just find it overkill.

Realistically, I have all my email confirmations on my iphone, photos of any documents required, and access to my dropbox file for backup copies of ID, itinerary etc.

Failing that, evernote for iphone is a great way to track a trip.

Tripit itself is uselesss but the other apps such as Flight Update Pro - which allow importing of trips from Tripit make it essential. Flight update pro has a feature to show flights which are incoming to your gate - the best indicator if your flight is going to be on time.

Has anyone found a good replacement for Tripit? I have been using it for the past few years and loved it a lot.

But I just updated my iPhone app and features that used to be free are now no longer free and require an upgrade to Pro. I also haven't even gotten maps with directions anymore.

Thanks

Mark

Tripit itself is uselesss but the other apps such as Flight Update Pro - which allow importing of trips from Tripit make it essential. Flight update pro has a feature to show flights which are incoming to your gate - the best indicator if your flight is going to be on time.

Could not agree more. Tripit Pro is just a waste.

How do you see incoming flights at your gate?

How do you see incoming flights at your gate?
It's a feature of Flight Update Pro.

It's a feature of Flight Update Pro.

Yea i have that, but i dont see that option anywhere.

I am a fan of the paid Tripit application for Android. Makes it very easy for my wife to have all of my travel and trip details and eliminates the need to text or call with the hotel information, etc.

I REALLY wish they would enable auto-importing from loyalty program logins like PageOnce/Trip Tracker does.

Ugh. TripIt Pro is nearly worthless to me right now. In fact, it's driving me crazy.

If TripIt is listening, YOU GUYS REALLY NEED TO GET REAL-TIME MONITORING OF PNRs ASAP!

I'm definitely not renewing my subscription if this is not implemented. I might even call and ask for a refund of my TripIt Pro payment due to its extreme inadequacy.

^^ I've been a long and vocal advocate of Tripit, but I'm getting fed up with their lack of real-time PNR monitoring.

As with most travel apps Trip It has its pros and cons.... seems to depend on how heavily you might rely on its services.

Wouldn't be worth it to me unless they went real-time :D

I turned it off because friends would forward me their itineraries and then TripIt would load their itineraries into My Trips and subsequently notify my Facebook friends that I was beginning a trip to Hawaii or Sitges or Rio or something.

I REALLY wish they would enable auto-importing from loyalty program logins like PageOnce/Trip Tracker does.

One potential workaround is to create filters in GMail for your confirmations -- these can be based on the "from" address or part of it, and can then be automatically forwarded to TripIt. It's a little bit of effort, but not too much, particularly if you focus on your favorite vendors. I had long been using filters to label reservations, so I just needed to add the forwarding address.

TripIt appears to automatically confirm GMail's requests to use plans@tripit.com as a forwarding address. The lack of a mechanism to do that was what eventually turned me off from using TripCase a couple of years ago.