Best Travel Apps #1 – Organizing Your Trip and Flight Information

We have rounded up our favorite apps in our Best Travel Apps series.  Here is Part I – Organizing your trip and Flight Information.

Please visit the other installments of our Best Travel Apps series:

• Top 7 Travel Apps
• Part I – Organizing Your Trip and Flight Information
• Part II – Destination Information
• Part III – Communications
• Part IV – Documenting Your Travels

We would love to hear what your favorites are!

Organizing Your Trip

Itineraries / Confirmation

TripIt

• Features:
  • Organize travel plans in one place
  • Synchronizes with your calendar
  • Ability to share travel plans
  • Store travel documents in one place
• Cost:
  • Free
  • TripIt Pro – $49/year
    • Real-time flight alerts
    • Locate alternate flights
    • Save money with VIP travel benefits
• Platforms:
  • Apple
  • Google

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Packing

Packing Pro

• Features:
  • Generates expert packing list based on number of adults, children, and days of travel
    • Takes into account temperature, destination, food preparation, and laundry preferences
  • Sample template lists available
  • Create, edit, and check-off customized packing lists
  • Allows creation of sub-lists for managing business or large family trips
• Cost: $0.99
• Platform:
  • Apple
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PackPoint

•  Features:
  • Generates packing list based on length of travel, weather, and activities
  • Share packing lists with others
• Cost: Free
  • PackPoint Premium (sponsored by Sheraton)
    • Connects to TripIt and Evernote
    • Customize with your own activities and packing list items
• Platforms:
  • Apple
  • Google
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Flight Information

Flight Tracking

Flight+

• Features:
  • Track live flight status at every airport (16,000+) in the world, in real-time
  • Departure, arrival, terminal, gate, and flight Status information available
  • Aircraft and seat maps available
  • Weather forecasts for destinations
• Cost: Free
• Platforms:  Apple

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FlightAware

• • Features:
    • Live flight tracking (status, gate/terminal information, delays, cancellations)
    • Track charter, private and GA aircraft
    • See nearby aircraft flying overhead
    • Mobile push notifications and flight alerts
    • Flight planning and routes
  • Cost: Free
  • Platforms:
    • Apple
    • Google
    • Windows
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Airport Information

GateGuru

• Features:
  • Door-to-door solution for travelers
  • Find services, retailers and restaurants at more than 200 airports, as reviewed by users, with maps
  • Flight information and real-time push notifications for thousands of worldwide airports
  • See security line wait times
• Cost: Free
• Platforms:
  • Apple
  • Google
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LoungeBuddy

• Features:
  • Find airport lounges all over the world
    • Find lounges available for a fee (beginning at $25)
    • Find lounges associated with airline elite status, lounge membership, and credit card affiliation
• Cost:  Free
• Platforms:
  • Apple
  • Google
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U.S. Immigration

Mobile Passport

• Features:
  • Expedited passport processing at 20 U.S. airports and one cruise port
• Cost:  Free
• Platforms:
  • Apple
  • Google
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Compensation for EU Flight

AirHelp

• Features:
  • Get up to $680 compensation if your EU flight is delayed, canceled, or overbooked
    • For any flight subject to EU passenger rights within the last three years
  • AirHelp handles your claim on a no win, no fee basis
    • If AirHelp is successful, you get 75% of the claim
• Cost:  Free
• Platforms:
  • Apple
  • Google
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Best Travel Apps series:

• Top 7 Travel Apps
• Part I – Organizing Your Trip and Flight Information
• Part II – Destination Information
• Part III – Communications
• Part IV – Documenting Your Travels

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