14 DAY TRIAL // CellTrust Corporation announced the availability of FlightAssist, a mobile alerting service that can be used by travelers to receive flight-related information on their cell phones via SMS. FlightAssist provides mobile phone owners with an easy and convenient way to track important flight information, such as flight delays, flight cancellations and gate changes. FlightAssist currently supports data from 16,084 airports and 1,398 airlines.
To use the service, users simply need to go to the FlightAssist website (which can be accessed here), choose the flight they wish to be notified about and enter their phone number. The service also offers the possibility to send flight information simultaneously to up to four cell phones through multi-contact notification. Users can also choose the time-range when they wish to receive the notification, as well as the time prior to the flight when the notification should be send, with the possibility of setting recurring alerts. For a limited period of time, travelers can use the FlightAssist service for free by entering a promotional code, 123123.
Apart from the general public, FlightAssist also targets airlines, travel agencies, and other travel-related businesses, giving them the opportunity to provide their customers with real-time, travel-related information, such as flight arrival and departure times. The service gives travel businesses which haven't yet implemented mobile phone flight tracking, the ability to extend their activity to the mobile space. FlightAssist can be purchased from CellTrust as a customized offering or as a value-added service for travel agencies and can be easily incorporated into an existing travel portal.
"Making mobility easily accessible, secure and applicable to many industries is critical for market adoption," said Sean Moshir, CEO of CellTrust. "Having recently launched its mobile academic emergency notification offering CampusReact, CellTrust is rapidly demonstrating to marketers and enterprises alike how to increase brand awareness, return on investment, and advance key performance indicator metrics via the mobile device."