Pintrips, a new online tool that sits above flight search, announces its prime time debut as the first cross platform travel tool that allows business and leisure travelers to “pin” and see flights they’ve found across the web in one spot and share them publicly or privately – with automatic real time price and availability updates, no matter what site the flight was found on.
Pintrips
leverages what’s spread out on the internet, making comparing and
finding ideal flights and deals easier than it’s ever been. Instead
of time consuming and memory-challenging flight comparisons on
multiple windows, the Pintrips platform uniquely allows consumers to
compare deals, itineraries and choices in new ways; apples to apples
or apples to oranges. For example, compare different date pairs to
the same destination to see when better deals are available, compare
different destinations such as deals to Montego Bay versus deals to
Aruba, Paris versus Barcelona with absolute ease.
According
to PhoCusWright’s “Consumer Travel Report Fourth Edition,” deal
obsessed consumers frantically search and re-search with more than
80% of consumers checking multiple sites to make sure they are
getting a good deal. Forty three percent of travelers are frustrated
by at least one factor, 13% wish they could compare multiple
destinations and 21% complain they have to go through too much
information, says the PhoCusWright’s “Empowering Inspiration: The
Future of Travel Search” report of February 2012.
Pintrips
Founder and CEO, Stephen Gotlieb said, “We’re introducing
something the internet couldn’t do on its own, and we’re
expecting frequent travelers to recognize the benefits with the first
board they create, especially since Google research shows that
consumers make 12 online searches, visit 22 sites, and take 29 days
from initial search to book.” He conceived of Pintrips when he and
his family spent 8 hours planning a flight itinerary from Tel-Aviv to
San Francisco and believes that flight crowd-sourcing is at its
infancy, with Pintrips dashboards leading the way. Pintrips was thus
designed to allow people to deal shop and itinerary seek without
changing their behavior and the sites they like, but eliminating the
need to revisit multiple airline and search sites or re-enter
information.
When
you find an airfare or itinerary you like, add it to Pintrips with a
simple click on the pin button located next to each flight
(easy-to-see pin buttons appear for each flight on flight-searching
sites and airline sites). Pintrips will continuously track price
changes for you after pinning, allowing you to compare deals and
itineraries you’ve found with no extra work. No need to save or cut
and paste links, anyone you’ve shared a Pintrips board
with can add their own pinned flights to the same board and make
comments right on the board for easy communication between work
colleagues or travel companions. The collaboration on any
single Pintrips board brings the benefits of crowd sourcing famed
reviews to crowd sourcing finding flights.
Newly
available “public pinning boards” provide a fast track to pinning
by providing the latest pins from the community as well as latest
deals, demonstrate the first crowd-sourcing of flights where users
are empowered to post deals and itineraries and make them publicly
accessible to anyone searching that itinerary or city pair.
Pintrips
eliminates what have become the too familiar hassles of typing in
search criteria over and over on each travel site: wasting time
checking and re-checking sites for the latest fare; and long email
threads with co-workers, friends, and family trying to coordinate
plans.
Pinning
capability is currently available on these airline sites: American,
Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, United, US Air and Virgin America; and
these search sites: Google, Expedia, Kayak and Orbitz. New sites are
being added every month and users can request additional sites
through the platform.
Pintrips
will continue to enhance its product to make planning even easier.
Coming next: mobile and tablet apps; and more “pinnable” travel
sites.
For
more information, visit www.pintrips.com