Pilot vs. CheckMyTrip: feature comparison, ratings, and FAQ

What is CheckMyTrip?

CheckMyTrip is a trip and flight tracker app. People use it to track flights and itineraries they have already booked. It tracks flights you have already booked rather than planning the trip or booking your stays.

What is Pilot?

Pilot is a trip booking and planning app. You plan the whole trip in one place, a flexible itinerary, a map of your stops, and notes, and you book your hotel in the app at private rates straight from hotels, the kind usually reserved for travel agents. Where CheckMyTrip tracks the flights, Pilot plans the whole trip around them and books your stay.

Is CheckMyTrip legit?

Yes, CheckMyTrip is a real app: it is the consumer trip tracker from Amadeus, the airline booking system, so it pulls in flight details and shows real-time gate and delay alerts. It is worth knowing that on Trustpilot, which reflects how a company treats its customers, CheckMyTrip sits around 1.6, with recent reviews about updates breaking core features like saved trips and booking recognition. If what you want is a planner you can trust to keep your whole trip together, Pilot is rated 4.7 by 50,000+ travelers, keeps everything in one place, and lets you reach a real person on our team if anything goes wrong.

Is CheckMyTrip free?

Yes, CheckMyTrip is free to use. It mainly organizes and tracks trips you have already booked, with flight status, gate changes, and delay alerts, plus calendar sync. Pilot is also completely free, including offline access and PDF export, and it does more than track an existing trip: it is a flexible planner you can shape your own way, it helps you build itineraries with AI, and it lets you book your stays in the app at private rates straight from hotels. Pilot is free because we earn from hotels when you book through the app, not from charging you to plan.

How does CheckMyTrip work?

CheckMyTrip works by importing your booking confirmations (it has deep ties to the Amadeus booking system that many airlines and agents use) and then showing your itinerary, flight status, gate changes, and delay alerts in one place, with calendar sync and an Apple Watch app. It is built to track a trip you already arranged. Pilot works the other way around: you start by planning. You drag and drop a flexible itinerary, pin places on a map, plan together with your group in real time, let AI build a first draft in minutes, and then book your hotel right in the app. So CheckMyTrip tracks what is booked, while Pilot helps you plan it and book it in the first place.

Can you book hotels in CheckMyTrip?

No. CheckMyTrip tracks and organizes bookings you made elsewhere, but it does not book hotels for you in the app. Pilot lets you book over 3,000,000 hotels right in the app, with private deals straight from hotels, the kind usually reserved for travel agents, so the booking lives with the rest of your trip instead of on a separate site. That is the main difference: CheckMyTrip is a tracker, Pilot is a planner you can also book through.

How does CheckMyTrip make money?

CheckMyTrip is free to use and is operated by Amadeus, the travel-technology company behind many airline and travel-agency booking systems, so it functions largely as a consumer-facing extension of that ecosystem rather than charging travelers directly. Pilot is free for a different reason: we earn from hotels when you book through the app, not from charging you to plan, which is why the whole planner, including AI itineraries, offline access, and PDF export, stays free, and why there are no sponsored results pushed at you.

Is CheckMyTrip worth it?

CheckMyTrip is worth a look if your main need is tracking flights you already booked: it has gate changes, delay alerts, calendar sync, and an Apple Watch app. Where it falls short is planning, because it does not give you a flexible itinerary builder, AI itinerary generation, group collaboration, or in-app hotel booking, and its Trustpilot score sits around 1.6 with recent complaints about broken updates. If you want one app that helps you plan the trip, plans it with your group, and lets you book your stay at private hotel rates, Pilot does all of that for free, which is why many people use it instead of, or alongside, a tracker.

CheckMyTrip vs Pilot: which should I use?

Use Pilot if you want to plan and book the trip: a flexible drag-and-drop itinerary you can shape your own way, AI that builds a first draft in minutes, real-time planning with your group, in-app hotel booking at private rates, and your whole trip in one place, all for free, backed by a 4.7 rating from 50,000+ travelers and real human support. Use CheckMyTrip in the narrow case where you only want to track flights you have already booked, with gate and delay alerts and calendar sync, and do not need to plan flexibly or book hotels in the app.