Show HN: AirHelp flight scanner finds all past flights and checks for eligibility

Re:Show HN: AirHelp flight scanner finds all past flights an... by dankohn1 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:26AM (#16176565)

A quick pitch for Tripit. Although you can let Tripit scan your email, you can instead just forward airline and hotel receipts to it and it automatically parses the data. It then puts it in an iCal calendar that you can import to Google Calendar. Personally, I use a Zapier to copy the Tripit calendar entries into my main calendar so that my colleagues won't try to book me into meetings while I'm on flights.

Finally, Openflights.org is an awesome site that imports and visualizes your Tripit data.

https://openflights.org/user/dankohn1 In the last 7 years, I've flown 44 days in the air for 428,989 miles which is 1.796x of the way to the moon (i.e., I'm almost home!).

More travel info https://www.dankohn.com/travel

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Re:Show HN: AirHelp flight scanner finds all past flights an... by size12font on Thursday January 18, 2018 @08:21AM (#16176841)

Hi,

Johnny here, I work in product @airhelp.

We love Tripit! We love them so much we have a partnership with them: https://travelupdate.boardingarea.com/tripit-airhelp-partner...

And originally we had a Tripit integration. But we decided to remove it for launch because we ran into a few bugs (on our side).

That is a super cool hack with Zapier, thanks for sharing. I'm currently using Fantastical 2 (on of my fav products) with connection to Google Cal. Gmail already populates my calendar with the flight times but unfortunately not the travel time to the airport. Maybe I should add some kind of buffer for all my travel events.

-jq

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