Alternative to TripIt = TripWaffle

[Airbumps]

Hey @tripwaffle

Not sure if this is by design .... I note that when a flight extends accross two days (i.e. flying from the USA to Australia where you leave on a Monday and land on a Wednesday, Tripwaffle doesn't show the link between days like it normally does... For examples heres a flight from NYC-SYD where you loose a day there is no line linking the flights..



Here is a normal overnighter where you go across one day and there is a line showing a link between the entries.



Not sure if this is something thats worth looking into updating...... just an observation

 

[tripwaffle]

Not sure if this is by design .... I note that when a flight extends accross two days (i.e. flying from the USA to Australia where you leave on a Monday and land on a Wednesday, Tripwaffle doesn't show the link between days like it normally does...

I just put that there to see if you'd notice Should be rendering properly now. Much appreciated.

 

[moa999]

Not many flight like that.
How does TE handle the opposite. Landing before it takes off due to crossing date line?

 

[burneracc]

Cheers for sharing that feedback.
TBH I'm pretty naive when it comes to the points game... in terms of researching the request, anywhere you could point me to learn the basics / mechanics?

This is a borderline impossible request to fulfil without a full time 2 pizza team of devs and I say this having built in this space a little - building my own little site purely to calculate for qantas earn rate across partners (Qantas Status Credits Calculator) I had to cut down the functionality from what I had in mind.

It's an n^2 problem space but in reality maintaining such a feature is more like becoming sisyphus because of how manual the process is. AT BEST, you could support individual airlines earn rates when credited to their own program only, but then you would be committing to constant maintenance of a feature that is quite niche and not much of a value add.

 

[tripwaffle]

Not many flight like that.
How does TE handle the opposite. Landing before it takes off due to crossing date line?

I quit.

Just joking (note: "actual" disclaimer)...

 

[vbap]

Not many flight like that.
How does TE handle the opposite. Landing before it takes off due to crossing date line?

It creates additional TV seasons of Lost and/or Manifest

 

[Airbumps]

I just put that there to see if you'd notice Should be rendering properly now. Much appreciated.

Love the update! Showing perfectly now!

 

[tripwaffle]

A user recently called out how coughty our flight reliability stats were, so now vastly improved and transparent:

 

[RooFlyer]

I guess if a flight is imported from TripIt, timings won't automatically update? (As in, I have flights where changed timings aren't updated).

Also, any chance that you could get Flighty to import flights loaded to TW, as they are for TripIt? Dunno if that's in your long term interest, though.

 

[jbman]

I guess if a flight is imported from TripIt, timings won't automatically update? (As in, I have flights where changed timings aren't updated).

Also, any chance that you could get Flighty to import flights loaded to TW, as they are for TripIt? Dunno if that's in your long term interest, though.

Tripit Pro is meant to update 48 hours before the flights are due to depart

I believe waffle does the same

 

[RooFlyer]

Tripit Pro is meant to update 48 hours before the flights are due to depart

Thanks; didn't realise that. I admit I rely on Flighty for flights in particular, so that's OK.

 

[tripwaffle]

I guess if a flight is imported from TripIt, timings won't automatically update? (As in, I have flights where changed timings aren't updated).

All future flights receive updates- typically within a 10-day window of departure, increasing in frequency leading up to the flight. Any issues feel free to shoot through specifics and we can look into it.

Also, any chance that you could get Flighty to import flights loaded to TW, as they are for TripIt? Dunno if that's in your long term interest, though.

Happy to reach out to Flighty and see if they'll give us API access, but it would be totally their call.

Thank you.

 

[tripwaffle]

Tripit Pro is meant to update 48 hours before the flights are due to depart

I believe waffle does the same

Our real-world observation of populating data across our current various sources:

Schedule (route + times): typically 4 days to 1 month out
Terminals: typically 3-7 days out
Gates: about 1 day out

It's a bit of a moving target though as we're improving this constantly.