tripchi airport app – Dec 2014, Holiday and Year-End Edition

With the year wrapping up, the tripchi airport app team have gifts in store for our fans and readers! Enter our airport improvement contest to win a “Keep Calm and Fly On” T-shirt. The 3 best ideas by the end of the year will win, just in time to put another present under your tree, and start the New Year traveling in fashion like CEO CJ (right).

Thanks for your feedback on the tripchi mobile website. For our launch, we plan to offer AUS, CLT, DEN, DXB, IAD, and PIT. Even if one of these isn’t your home airport – never fear. We still cover other airports in our blog, and are adding new airports near you every month.

Company update: November and December have been busy months for the tripchi team. We’re Keebler elvin’ it away for our Android launch and also were invited to present our strategy and technology framework to a large airport F&B and retail organization.

How can you help? So far, we have bootstrapped our way to winning airport hearts and minds. And we couldn’t have done it without you. We’d like to expand our offering to include more airports and more airport retail vendors, and focus on our revenue model for 2015. If you are in the airport or airport retail industry, can you pass your connections our way?

Airport holiday celebrations! Airports are joining the holidays cheer with their very own festive airport holiday celebrations. We’ve rolled up some of the best airport holiday celebrations for you to experience as part of your holiday journey. Who said you can’t start the party at the airport? And, if you haven’t figured our your New Year’s Eve plans yet – celebrate NYE twice in SYD and LAX on this special chartered flight.

Join our airport reindeer games! We plan on getting in the holiday spirit on Twitter with our hashtags this holiday season. Whenever you’re at an airport, send us your best tips to beat the airport holiday blues using #layovertip, and play our guessing game with#namethatairport – now with USAToday!

Best Airport Wi-Fi – With more and more airports transforming into Airports 2.0 – technology-enabled next-generation airports with great food and shopping opportunities and a local culture feel – we’ve decided to roll up a list of the airports with the best free airport Wi-Fi, to keep you productive and mobile this holiday season. Read more here.

Thought Leadership – The Next Generation Airport. A couple of months ago we read how American Airlines and the DFW Airport teamed up to deliver the “next generation airport.” Here is our analysis of the how this fits within our Airport 2.0 vision – read more here.