Next time your flight touches down

Google is prepping airport arrival messages that nudge you to try Ask Maps. Next time your flight touches down, Google Maps could be there with a custom greeting. New Google Maps airport greetings could promote Ask Maps.

Mobile Next time your flight touches down, Google Maps could be there with a custom greeting Google is prepping airport arrival messages that nudge you to try Ask Maps. The greetings seem designed to encourage the use of the app’s Ask Maps feature. Google’s building out support for messages in over 90 airports around the world.

Have you ever landed at an airport and seen some smartly dressed valets standing around with travelers’ names printed on cards, waiting to greet them. Not all of us will ever be the sort of bigwig who gets that kind of white-glove service, but we might be able to at least pretend a little bit, thanks to a new system that’s in the works for Google Maps. Authority Insights brings you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage from the team that you won’t find anywhere else.

Granted, it’s nowhere near as fancy as having your own private chauffer to drive you around, but in the new version 26.45.00.1011720968 update of Google Maps for Android, we’re seeing the app prepare to deliver new airport-arrival greetings.