Question about "My Flights" app [service ends on 31 Dec 2017]
Jan 1, 2018, 3:17 am
#946
Join Date: Feb 2005
Programs: EL AL Matmid, BA Executive Club GfL, GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond, Avis President's Club
Posts: 2,085
Jan 1, 2018, 3:25 am
#947
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London
Programs: AA EXP 2 MM
Posts: 2,823
Agreed. I was intending to refer to subscription services that provide automated alerts of near departure changes to non-Amadeus flights. For BA flights, the combination of the free AwardWallet and checkmytrip appear to do a reasonable job of monitoring changes.
Jan 1, 2018, 3:21 pm
#950
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
Farewell, MyFlights! And thank you once again, schofs, for a great idea and a great product - not least because of virtues that so few other modern websites display, namely simplicity and effectiveness.
I don't know whether the rankings will get updated any more now, but I see that I have ended up at 913, despite never having used it as a mobile phone app and only coming on board when the website was launched.
I don't know whether the rankings will get updated any more now, but I see that I have ended up at 913, despite never having used it as a mobile phone app and only coming on board when the website was launched.
Jan 4, 2018, 7:01 am
#951
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: London
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold & GGL & CCR, HH Diam, Bonvoy Titanium, IHG Spire, Tastecard
Posts: 7,549
395th and apparently top 1%.
not that you are in any way competitive but where did you finish @chris1979 ?
And whilst size is important, it's about what you do with it!
Jan 4, 2018, 8:25 am
#952
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 973
With Myflights gone (still feeling very sad), I decided to download checkmytrip app on the iPhone. There has been a very weird thing showed up in one of my bookings. The flight is not until June, but checkmytrip showed the trip is "ongoing" from 4th October 2017 to July 2018 ??? Besides the flight details, it also showed "Miscellaneous - Roberts Field, Redmond/Bend, OR - started 4th October 2017, description PEROW" (by the way the booking was a 241 and made in mid-August 2017). I then googled and found these 2 old threads about the Redmond/Bend airport - What happens in Redmond, Oregon (and why) ? (over 13 years ago) - and PEROW - "PEROW" - What's that? (over 5 years ago) - It seemed that Amadeus has had problems and still having problems with BA res? Annoyingly there is probably no way to correct the booking to show correctly, without the extraneous miscellaneous info?
Jan 4, 2018, 8:28 am
#953
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
The miscellaneous information is in the booking because BA wants it there. The public interfaces for Amadeus misinterpret this information - but as you have seen, 'twas ever thus.
Jan 4, 2018, 8:37 am
#954
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 973
Thanks, Globaliser. Still odd because checkmytrip showed my trip started 4th October 2017 and not June 2018 - out of sync dates (not in correct order) with my other bookings / flights in checkmytrip app.
Jan 4, 2018, 8:43 am
#955
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,546
For info, I received my first notification of a timetable change from Checkmytrip. It does not tell you about seat changes etc but for the timetable change, the alert seemed quite effective.
Jan 4, 2018, 8:56 am
#956
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London
Programs: AA EXP 2 MM
Posts: 2,823
How far before departure was that? I could not find any information on whether Checkmytrip automatically monitors in advance?
Jan 4, 2018, 9:57 am
#957
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,546
Incidentally an extremely minor issue with Checkmytrip is that flights remain ordered by date of first flight rather than by date of the next flight (as with MyFlights) which I found far more practical as someone who often nests tickets.
Jan 4, 2018, 9:47 pm
#958
Moderator, Emirates
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Where My Heart Is
Programs: BAEC Silver, FB Platinum, KQ Asante Gold, Shebamiles Blue, Emirates Blue
Posts: 3,386
One slightly annoying feature that I have noticed is receiving a notification on the day of travel (for all the bookings I have now travelled on) about 5 hours before, saying the booking details have changed only to find that it is adding in and confirming the departure terminal. Some may find it useful but for myself, I know that all BA domestic departures leave T5 at LHR and flights departing GLA go from terminal M.
S
Jan 4, 2018, 11:27 pm
#959
Ambassador, Hong Kong and Macau
Join Date: May 2009
Location: HKG
Programs: Non-top tier Asia Miles member
Posts: 19,805
With Myflights gone (still feeling very sad), I decided to download checkmytrip app on the iPhone. There has been a very weird thing showed up in one of my bookings. The flight is not until June, but checkmytrip showed the trip is "ongoing" from 4th October 2017 to July 2018 ??? Besides the flight details, it also showed "Miscellaneous - Roberts Field, Redmond/Bend, OR - started 4th October 2017, description PEROW" (by the way the booking was a 241 and made in mid-August 2017). I then googled and found these 2 old threads about the Redmond/Bend airport - What happens in Redmond, Oregon (and why) ? (over 13 years ago) - and PEROW - "PEROW" - What's that? (over 5 years ago) - It seemed that Amadeus has had problems and still having problems with BA res? Annoyingly there is probably no way to correct the booking to show correctly, without the extraneous miscellaneous info?
Mine is "Redmond/Bend - Hobart", CMT departure date 2 July 2017
Actual departure date is 30 March 2018, and the routing is SYD-xMEL-oHBA-MEL, Avios redemption on QF
Jan 4, 2018, 11:59 pm
#960
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: LHR
Programs: BAEC GGL & CCR / QF LTG
Posts: 829
No longer able to add (or change) manual bookings
While I appreciate bookings are no longer monitored, it is a shame the latest update has removed the functionality to add (or change) manually entered bookings. @schofs, what is the rationale for this? MyFlights is still useful for keeping track of all my flights, even if they aren't monitored for changes. At #677 I fly a bit and the app is a central place to keep bookings.