ArrivedOK Debuts for Auto Flight Arrival Notification

ArrivedOK, a product described as a "personal flight arrival tracker and arrival messenger," is now available in the Japanese and Russian languages and open for beta testing in most countries of the world.

The service -- you're really a bit surprised nobody thought of this before -- lets air passengers automatically notify others about their arrival to airports worldwide by e-mail, SMS, via blogs or Twitter, thereby letting them save on international roaming charges.

Developed by Eyeline Communications, ArrivedOK lets travelers enter flight information and recipient e-mails or phone numbers before take-off. When they reach their destination and turn on their cell phone, the service locates it in the local mobile network and sends out a brief arrival message to the recipients listed. The system bypasses the heavy international roaming charges for voice, text and mobile e-mail services which sneak up and bite you on the rear when you're traveling abroad. Not that this has had that happen, oh no.

“So why can't they just check to see if the flight's arrived?” someone may ask. See, this way, your personal arrival is noted instead of flight status in general, so when you oversleep your nine-hour Dubai layover, or miss your connecting flight in Heathrow, you don't have anybody tapping their toes at the airport for hours while you’re still over the Atlantic Ocean. Not that that's happened to this reporter either, no siree. No personal experience there, spending two hours traveling out to the Istanbul Airport, waiting three hours and returning home empty-handed only to have to go back later that night.

“Unlike other flight tracking services, which are based on general flight data from dispatcher centers, ArrivedOK tracks one's actual appearance in the destination airport, so one's friends and colleagues are 100 percent sure the person is landed,” says Andrey Deriabin, Director Business Development at Eyeline Communications.

Therefore ArrivedOK has rightfully been selected as an Official Honoree in The 13th Annual Webby Awards in two categories: Best Use of GPS or Location Technology and Experimental & Innovation. ArrivedOK is currently translated into Japanese, French and Russian and is available as free public beta in most countries of the world.

Eyeline Communications is incorporated in Austin, Texas and has offices in Singapore, Russia, and CIS, counting an 80 million-strong subscriber base in Europe and Asia for its carrier-grade B2B products and mobile services.