Pintrips Launches A Collaborative Trip Planning Dashboard

Pintrips, a new personal travel planning startup, is today publicly entering the competitive, crowded travel space with the public debut ofits online pinboard for tracking flights and prices. The service operates differently from the typical price comparison engines and aggregators, as its focus isn’t only on finding the best prices and schedules – it’s about being able to compare different flights, dates or even destinations side-by-side, track price changes in real-time, and coordinate with others on trip planning.

The idea came to founder and CEO Stephen Gotlieb when he became frustrated while trying to plan a flight from San Francisco to Tel-Aviv with his family. He would send his family flight options, but given the 10-hour time difference, by the time they responded, the price on the flight had already changed or seats were sold out.

To address this problem, Gotlieb created Pintrips, which offers an online dashboard allowing users to “pin” their favorite flights on one screen and track the flight price changes in real-time. This is helpful in terms of finding the best deal when coordinating with others on booking a trip, such as in Gotlieb’s situation above, but it also lets individual users compare the changes across different flight times or travel dates, as well as different destinations altogether.

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Pintrips Launches A Collaborative Trip Planning Dashboard For Tracking Flights & Prices Across Destinations In Real-Time | TechCrunch