While viewing a reservation recently I noticed that the revamped site has an
Add to Calendar link on the
View and Email Air Reservation page. So if you've been wishing for the calendar export feature and haven't already loaded all your pre-revamp reservations into your calendar, you can now do so with somewhat less effort. Just go to your
future itineraries page [optional but enormously helpful: apply the
compact/exportable future flight listing bookmarklet]; Ctrl-click all the links to view reservations in new tabs, then proceed one-by-one through the tabs saving the ics files. Warning: these files are somewhat bloated with advertising...but they do automatically add OLCI alarms for you.
I don't use Outlook but I wanted to experiment with the add to calendar feature. When I did so I noticed that when importing the ics files into Windows Calendar the UTC times did not translate to my local time zone. That is probably just reflective of my total ignorance of calendar software, but it got me wondering whether users of other calendar programs were able to import their itineraries correctly. Anybody tried it?
BTW, the
Add to Calendar link opens a sub-window that says:
Export your XXX to YYY trip

OutlookŪ

iCal compatible
I tried saving both types of calendar files and could not discern a difference between them.