Introducing Notify Arrival

Every trip has a version of this moment. You're on final approach, the seatbelt sign is still on, and you're trying to type with one thumb: "just landed". The person picking you up replies instantly with the two questions you don't have answers to yet — which terminal? and where should I wait?

Then comes the walk. Passport control. The train between terminals. Twenty minutes at a carousel that turns out to be the wrong one. And through all of it, a running text conversation that both of you would rather not be having.

So we built a better way to hand off your arrival.

One Tap, and the Right Person Knows

Starting today, every arrival in your trip has a Notify Arrival button on the flight detail page, sitting right above the ride options. Tap it and you get a panel with your arrival details already written out — flight, arrival time in the local time at that airport, terminal, and baggage belt. You add who it's going to, and send it however you already talk to that person.

There are four ways out of the panel:

• Email — opens your mail app with the subject and body filled in. Type the recipient once and we'll remember it for next time.
• Send with WhatsApp — hands the message to WhatsApp, where you pick the contact and hit send.
• More apps… — the system share sheet, for Messages, Telegram, Signal, or anything else you use. The site link goes along as a real link.
• Copy message — plain text on your clipboard, for anywhere else.

What the Message Actually Says

No composing, no guessing at gate numbers, no hunting for the baggage belt screen. The message is built from the live flight data we already track for you:

A few details in there are doing more work than they look like they are:

• The time is local to the arrival airport. "11:40 AM Paris Time (GMT+2)" means nobody has to do timezone math at either end of the message.
• Delays are already in it. If your flight is running late, the arrival time shown is the revised one and the message says how late you are, with the original time for reference. You can tell someone before they've left the house.
• Terminal and baggage belt come from live flight data. If the airport hasn't assigned a terminal yet, the line simply reads "Terminal: not assigned" rather than leaving your driver guessing at a blank.
• It fires at real arrivals, not layovers. Every point in your trip where you actually step off the plane and out into a city — including a mid-trip stop — gets the button. A two-hour connection doesn't.

Why We Built It This Way

The obvious alternative would have been a "family sharing" feature inside AI Trip Tracker: invite someone, they make an account, they install the app, they follow your trip. We didn't do that, because the person collecting you from the airport doesn't want another app. They want a message they can read in ten seconds.

So the recipient needs nothing at all — no account, no invite, no download. The notification lands in the app they already have open, from the number they already recognize.

Two things it deliberately does not do:

• Nothing is sent automatically. We don't read your contacts and we don't message anyone behind your back. You tap the button, you choose the recipient, you hit send in your own app.
• No location tracking. The message describes your flight, not your phone. There's no "share my live location" switch to forget about later.

Availability

Notify Arrival is available now on every arrival in your trips, including on the free trial. It works on all devices, but it's built for the phone in your hand on the jetbridge — add AI Trip Tracker to your home screen and the button is two taps from your pocket.

Forward your next booking confirmation to get your trip in, and give it a try the next time someone's waiting for you.