Originally Posted by
quick_dry
Can you send the email to yourself from tripcase, then forward the email from yourself to tripit?
The TripCase email contains no flight info. It's just a graphics and button/link laden email that takes you to the TripCase web site where you're required to log in. Or, IIRC, if you open one of the links in the email while viewing the email on an iDevice, it opens in the iPhone's browser while encouraging you to download the TripCase app.
Originally Posted by
MAN Pax
Could you just not use Tripcase? What else do you get from tripit that it makes it worth emailing over itins?
TripCase is just another account I need to have/keep track of.
I've been using TripIt forever and bounced between paid/pro and free accounts over time. I like it, it works. Others may disagree, but I see no need for improvement in the TripIt product.
A number of people have my TripIt Calendar feed in their calendars to follow my travel. Took forever to get them set up with this. Even if TripCase offered it, I wouldn't want to have to go through setting everyone up again. And, as mentioned earlier, the "share" feature doesn't delivery anywhere close the level of detail that either Virtually There or TripIt does when you send/share an itinerary with someone.
It really seems to be an arrogance thing on TripCase's part (though I'll admit arrogance is a bit of strong word). Name me a mainstream web site (other than TripCase) that doesn't offer an "email this ______ " feature on it's web site. I could say that, with reasonable certainty, DL, US, United, AA all offer the ability to email an itinerary to someone and that that email would contain complete details. Granted, the traveler may need to be logged in to the site to send the email, but the feature is there. With TripCase, even if you're logged in, that feature isn't there. And, I'll point out that, unlike TripIt, I'm paying for it - at least in the cost of my paying my corporate travel fees for them to use this system.
The more I think about it. The more I wonder why they hamstring their system by (a) requiring login (OK, security of your travel plans, I'll give them that), (b) the inability to email all the details to someone who needs to know (corporate accounts department, assistance, coworker) and (c) the limited share feature.