Cancellations? New Trip? Get Airborne Faster with TripSync

TripSync™ (www.tripsync.com) is the first and only mobile application that books air, hotel and car rental reservations. For years there has been talk in the travel industry about mobile booking, but the only one now available is TripSync Mobile. With TripSync Mobile any traveler with a web-enabled mobile phone has the unprecedented flexibility to book trips from anywhere. Now that mobile travel is actually here, travelers are free to snag fares and flights as they see them, without being chained to a desktop. Imagine how TripSync mobile can fix these typical scenarios:

* Flight is cancelled due to mechanical whatever. Everyone on the flight has to rush to a phone, line up at a counter, or find a PC to book a new flight. The TripSync user is first in line and chooses from the widest array of flights just by picking up a cell phone.

* Flight is cancelled because of weather issues. Instead of relying on a travel agent to find a hotel, the TripSync user searches for hotels across the country on the cell phone, sees only the available hotels and quickly finds a place to rest, while everyone else sleeps at the airport.

* Stuck in a long meeting, a traveler receives an e-mail requiring him to be in another city tomorrow. Instead of excusing himself from the meeting, he books his flight on his PDA, and gets back to the task at hand without delay.

TripSync mobile users don’t incur booking fees (yes, free booking!) and they and their assistant can view the entire itinerary right within Outlook, even when it’s booked through their phone. Trips in the Outlook calendar are available for others to see, so it’s easy to notify colleagues of the itinerary and/or invite them on the trip.

Mobile booking seems so obvious: phones can do everything these days, from downloading music to watching the latest TV shows, so why hasn’t there been airline ticket booking? The honest answer is mobile booking is not a money maker and not of use to the leisure traveler - but TripSync is the only tool of its kind concerned with the business traveler.

“If you are a traveler on the go, then you know this is history in the making. By offering TripSync mobile we are investing in technology that makes travelers’ lives easier. TripSync gives travelers a new outlook - through Outlook and now mobile capabilities that no one else offers,” says Robert Kost, CEO of Portaga.

Additional mobile features coming soon are:

* Itinerary Modification and Cancellation –TripSync will next offer the ability to change hotel and car bookings, without the need to re-book.

* Flight Re-booking – According to the Bureau of Transportation, 26% of national flights are delayed. When a traveler is late, use TripSync’s drag and drop feature in the Outlook calendar or on the mobile platform and the flight is automatically re-booked and monies properly transferred.

* Critical alerts – TripSync will already alert the traveler, by e-mail or SMS, concerning flight delays, gate changes and cancellations. Coming soon are weather conditions at the airport, security line wait times and more.

About TripSync

TripSync (www.tripsync.com) is the free, Web 2.0 travel tool that allows business travelers to book, change and manage travel directly from their calendar with a few simple clicks. TripSync simplifies, organizes and synchronizes business travel for one or multiple travelers by creating live data itineraries right in Outlook. TripSync makes creating or changing travel plans as easy as scheduling a meeting. Designed with an inherent understanding of how small and medium sized companies work, TripSync was developed by veteran business travelers at Portaga, Inc., a web services company based in White Plains, NY. For more information about TripSync and how to get it, go to www.tripsync.com.