Hi folks

quick 2022 update about this topic

About 1 year and a half ago i made this review for tripcase vs checkmytrip

Now its time for new review

All previous comments still apply i will just add new updates and one more competitor = Appintheair

Long story short = things arent going better with checkmytrip , tripcase is more or less stable , appintheair seems promising and i miss google trips , RIP my fella

Checkmytrip is going into a direction i dont like ( trying to focus more on pushing you to purchase 3rd party services rather than doing the core job. the app went under a UX/UI redesign , which is not bad but i dont like it cause instead of fixing what wasnt working they just added new bugs as others reported here in this flyertalk thread

Since then 3 new issues appeared in checkmytrips

- 1°) merged trips = every trip edited/created manually will be tagged as merged , which is completely stupid

- 2°) mail forwarding = now you can barely add a trip correctly by forwarding emails (also with tripcase but less often) , the error rate is way higher than in 2020 , in fact its so high i almost gave up on this , especially for multi segments trips

- 3°) Notifications = too much notifications , most have mothing to do with your trip , things like "hey , you arrived in XXXXX , right ??" , lounge purchase or tourist activities through 3rd parties . Even for deleted trips , so it is ridiculous


As advised in 2020 , i dont do copy/paste of my bookings to avoid including sensitive data , before it used to work 66% of the time after 1 or two shots , but not anymore ... It looks like i need to recreate itinerary in ITA matrix and then extract/transform/send data , its a waste of time


I found another flaw for both = it seems their IATA/ICAO databse is outdated and not complete , so some small regional airlines are missing

Tripcase dont have logos of some major players ( i know i am picky but if you start something do it until the end)

One small bug i discovered with checkmytrip recently = If you fly a route with stops under the same flightcode and your screen is not big enough , you wont be able to select segments , so on a phone it might not work but a tablet will probably do the job


About this new player = appintheair , its a nice complement , of course not perfect . The three main problems i have

- you cant create account in appintheair directly , you need an external account to use it (google/facebook/etc...) while you can avoid it , it is mandatory if you use more than one device, you can also use your tripit account , it essentially pull data from tripit everytime
- The UX/UI is nice but there are many bugs , if you create a mutli-segments trip in tripit , then you have to merge it manually in appintheair application , but 33% of the time merging doesnt work
- Sometimes import from tripit fail cause of data , so you need to correct it in tripit manually, as appintheair is essentially a front-end and tripit is a backend

Summary = i wanna keep all 4 apps in order to get better overview , however if checkmytrip continue their race to the bottom , i might say goodbye