The document introduces Tripnary, a new tool for searching for flights within the workplace communication platform Slack. It allows users to find flights by sending messages to Tripnary like "/tripnary find flights from NYC to AUS leaving 4/8". Tripnary searches millions of flights from Skyscanner to provide the cheapest fares. It understands both structured phrases and natural language for flight searches. Future updates will expand its capabilities to include hotels and more natural language queries.

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Search For Flights, Inside Slack
Today, we are releasing the first and the easiest way to find airfares inside
Slack. Why search for flights inside Slack? Glad you asked. One, you are
already spending all your day collaborating with your team on it. Second,
it’s a huge time saver because you can talk to it naturally and it’s amazingly
flexible. And third, it’s just the right thing to do
So, if you planning to meet a current/potential client, or going for a
conference, or networking with investors, or simply just wanderlusting, add
Tripnary to your Slack team and easily find cheapest flights to get anywhere!
How it works?

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Add Tripnary to Slack and just say /tripnary to get started. These are a small
selection of messages you can send to Tripnary. We scan millions of flights
from our travel partner Skyscanner to bring you the latest fares.
Don’t know where to go but have a budget in mind? Try
/tripnary find flights from NYC leaving on 4/8 under $200
Looking for the cheapest tickets to a destination? Say
/tripnary find flights from NYC to AUS leaving 4/8

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These are just some of the messages Tripnary understands. If you have
either a budget, date, or destination in mind, Tripnary can find you the
cheapest fares for it. It’s totally flexible! In addition to the phrases above,
Tripnary for Slack also understands natural language inputs. So for example,
you could say something totally ridiculous like…
/tripnary be a good boy and get me a flight from CHI to anywhere I
don’t care
…and still get a response

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And, if you are looking to search for flights privately, just send a direct
message to the ‘slackbot’ user, so only you will see the results.
What’s next?
We are working on making Tripnary for Slack more sophisticated like
supporting more natural language queries. We will soon let you search for
hotels as well.
Hope you enjoy using Tripnary. We are super excited to hear your feedback.
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Originally published at www.tripnary.com on March 9, 2016.