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TripIt Defies Airlines With Loyalty Tracking For Four AWOL Carriers

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: The Delta SkyClub bar at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Delta Air Lines

Skift Take

TripIt is doing the right thing for its users by coming up with a work-around to track the loyalty programs of airlines that don't want to be tracked by third parties. Delta, United, Southwest and American are still playing hardball.

TripIt Pro, which offers loyalty-program tracking as one of its services, introduced a manual way for users of its online and mobile subscription service to keep tabs on their miles or points accruals from American, Delta, Southwest, and United a couple of years after these carriers informed aggregators that such tracking violated their intellectual property rights. Instead of users entering their program information and having TripIt Pro automatically update their airline, hotel and car rental, and other loyalty account

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