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Wait, seriously? First they killed Inbox, which helpfully aggregated trip emails into one place, upon which a bunch of folks told me to try Trips; now they kill Trips in quick succession? I had dozens of trips organized very nicely in Inbox...

Ugh. And I’m still rather unwilling to hand over my email to a third party. Is there any nice way to organize trips anymore?

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They are ending Trips because the functionality has been rolled into Google Travel. You can access your trips at https://google.com/travel.

Which would be fine if it was possible to use while offline, data roaming isn't cheap.

Even disregarding roaming (e.g. travelling within the EU so roaming is free), having offline access makes it easy to plan what places to visit while flying to your destination.

It's also critical if you land late and are scrambling to your next destination and don't have service in this connecting country you are in and there is no wifi at all and your phone is on 10% and the ramshackle destination airport has exactly two plugs, one of them broken. I still print my itineraries and tickets and it's saved me plenty of times when my phone has failed me.

This. Offline support is a must. I got into the habit of screenshotting tickets because airline apps sometimes reload automatically, losing the ticket if you're offline.

Well, I can't:

  To see your trips and travel research, turn on these settings

  Web & app activity Off

Google Trips worked fine. The fact that Google adds more and more services to try and convince me to turn this on[1] makes sure that I won't do so.

[1] Google Maps won't even let me store my home address without also opting-in; it worked fine without it for years.

I'm in your boat too. This is a completely dead and useless service to me if it wants me to enable these settings.

Seconded. I have those settings turned off for a reason.

If Trips didn't need them to read my email and parse out the flight/hotel reservations, then this doesn't either.

Redirects to https://www.google.com/flights ?

Same for me.

On mobile I get the redirect, on my chrome desktop I don't

How can I see my upcoming trips at that URL? I want to see my hotel itineraries.

That page takes 5 seconds to load for me on a 100mbit connection. The advantage of the app is that it works even when network connections are spotty or nonexistent.

I like tripit. You forward emails to it so you don't have to give it access to your inbox. Their app is a bit janky, and the website more so, but I've found it really useful.

> I’m still rather unwilling to hand over my email to a third party.

Didn't you do that already by having a Gmail account?

Still don't understand the Inbox issue, out of all the products. Google literally came out and said its an experimental platform.

And it seemed to be going really well! Why kill it? Everyone loved it, and I can earnestly say that the new version of Gmail hasn't really made it to the level of experience we already had on Inbox.

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