Pintrips Offers New Take on Travel
April 30, 2013
Is this a new type of search? Pintrips insists it has something unique in a press release posted at Market Wired, “Pintrips Takes Flight—New Kind of App Takes the Chaos Out of Finding the Best Fare.” The cross-platform tool consolidates information travelers discover across sites, allowing them to share their findings publicly and privately, complete with real-time price and availability updates. That certainly sounds helpful. The write-up tells us:
“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 recent research, consumers are frustrated with the process of comparing deals across travel sites. Pintrips aims to fill that gap, expecting that frequent travelers will get the most out of their service. Public “pinning boards” enable users to share travel information, bringing the crowd-sourcing impulse to this arena.
The company promises continued refinements to their product, including mobile apps. Currently, the site works best in Chrome, but developers promise Firefox, Safari, and IE functionality down the line. Pintrips was founded in 2011, and launched its beta product in November of last year. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.
Cynthia Murrell, April 30, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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