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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 5:54 pm
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elliterate
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: JFK
Programs: UA 2P
Posts: 10
Originally Posted by wco81
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.
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