A great post by Tim Hughes about the Three (actually more) lies the travel industry keeps telling consumers. Many travelers will find them quite familiar:

“Again and again the travel industry thinks that lying to a customer is the best way out of an uncomfortable situation. As a consumer of online travel I have come across three standard lies that the industry keeps telling me. They are:

1. I would like to help you but “the system” wont let me;

2. The flight/hotel/boat/train is fully booked; and

3. The flight/boat/train is on time.”

Read more: Three lies the travel industry keeps telling consumers (with Qantas, Hilton and Virgin Express examples)

“My last travel consisted of 6 flights (the guy was flying from Russia to Beijing, Singapore, Jakarta, and all the way back. Click a city name to see how ArrivedOK auto-updates his Twitter status – Editor). Entering all of them into ArrivedOK manually might take time. Fortunately ArrivedOK is integrated with TripIt, so all I needed to do was just forwarding all my booking confirmation emails and e-tickets to TripIt and then importing those records to ArrivedOK. Follow these steps to do it:

1. You should have a registration with TripIt.com. If you don’t, go to their website and sign-up.
2. Forward all your booking confirmation emails and e-tickets to plans@tripit.com
3. Assuming you have an ArrivedOK account, sign-in to ArrivedOK and select New Record. You will see “Import from Tripit” link.
4. Click it and ArrivedOK will import all your new flights and will offer you to edit them. At that stage you can specify your cell phone to track and notifications for all of your flights. Or you can do this later.
5. Don’t forget to make the newly imported records ‘Active’ by clicking the button in the Records Menu.

Now you are ready to fly. Happy landings!”

• “Can I import trips from TripIt so I don’t have to fill everything in?”
• “Linking to tripit.com – that would be really magic.”
• “I use www.tripit.com for all my travels. Please use their RSS feed to create records for me.”

These are quotes from our beta-testers’ emails.

Following these requests we want to announce that ArrivedOK has just integrated with TripIt and made the import of flight records stored in TripIt available to its users. You can find that option at ‘Create event‘ page. It is really a one-click feature. Please check it out and let us know what you think about it.

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