Auto-Detected Trips

Overview

When you connect your Gmail account, MileIntel watches for booking confirmation emails from airlines, travel agencies, and booking platforms. When it finds one, it creates a trip suggestion with the route, dates, and flight details pre-filled. You just confirm or dismiss.

What Triggers Detection

MileIntel looks for structured booking data in emails from:

• Airlines — United, Delta, American, Southwest, JetBlue, Alaska, and 50+ international carriers
• Booking platforms — Expedia, Google Flights, Kayak, Booking.com, Hopper
• Travel agencies — Emails with standard IATA confirmation formats
• Calendar invites — If you've connected Google Calendar, travel-related events are also flagged

The parser extracts flight numbers, confirmation codes, departure/arrival airports, dates, cabin class, and passenger names.

How to Confirm or Reject

When MileIntel detects a booking, you'll see a notification badge on the Trips tab. Open it, and the suggested trip appears with a yellow "Suggested" tag.

• Confirm — The trip moves into your active list with all detected details. You can edit anything afterward.
• Dismiss — The suggestion disappears. MileIntel won't re-suggest from the same email.
• Edit before confirming — Click into the suggestion to adjust dates, cabin class, or trip name before accepting.

Key Details

• MileIntel uses read-only Gmail access — it never sends, deletes, or modifies your emails
• Detection typically happens within 5 minutes of receiving a booking confirmation
• If a trip already exists for the same route and dates, MileIntel merges the new flight data instead of creating a duplicate
• Forwarded confirmations (e.g., from a travel assistant) are also detected

Tips

1. Connect Gmail early. Even old booking confirmations from the past few months may be detected and offered as suggestions.
2. If detection misses a booking, you can always create the trip manually and paste the confirmation code.