I have signed up as beta tester for a service, ArrivedOK,which sends a text message to chosen mobile phones when your flight arrives at its destination. How does it know that you have arrived? You have to provide your flight schedule to their web-site. Then 30 minutes before your scheduled arrival, it starts scanning the mobile network for your number. Of course, if you have followed instructions, your phone is turned off. When you land and are allowed to turn on your phone, the ArrivedOK computer senses your phone and notifies the chosen mobiles with text (SMS) message of your choice.
They have built in rules which are supposed to prevent errors due to changes in flight schedules, or diversions, etc.
The site also allows you to list blogs, which are updated with arrival messages, similar to the text messages sent to the mobile phones. So look for messages on this blog in the near future. After the beta test, there will be a charge for this service, it will be interesting to see what they feel is the value to us frequent travellers.
For more information, click on the title above.
***LATE BREAKING***
I ran into a problem because their registration process did not filter out US based phone numbers. Currently their service works only for European based mobile phones. I heard from their customer support and they are working on a couple of solutions, the long term will take a few months to implement but will provide full SMS capabilities. They may also implement a short term solution which involves only email alerts and this could be ready in a matter of weeks.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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