Travel legs
Add trains, flights and drives, from a rough plan to a booked journey with exact times, and make a return trip in one go.
For trip editors · Updated October 17, 2026
A leg is one journey: a flight, a train, a drive or a walk. It starts as a plan and grows into a booking on the same record.
Planned, scheduled, booked
| Stage | When | Shown as |
|---|---|---|
| Planned | It has a day, and perhaps a rough time such as "~45 min", but no times. | Under Any time on its day, in the order you give it. |
| Scheduled | It has departure and arrival times. | On the day's timeline at its time. |
| Booked | It has a confirmation number (bookings). | The same, with its number. |
Add a leg quickly
On Edit trip, under Travel by day, or on a day's page with + Leg, type the leg like a table row: From, To, Mode, ~Duration (such as "45 min" or "2.5 hrs") and a Note, then click Add leg. It's planned, on that day. The site matches the places to the trip's cities by name where it can.
Edit a leg
Click Edit beside the leg on the trip page or on its day's page. The leg's page has these groups:
| Group | Fields |
|---|---|
| Route | Origin and Destination (an airport code, station or town), From city and To city (to draw it on the map), Mode. |
| Schedule | Date; Departure (local) and Arrival (local) with each end's time zone; Rough duration; Order (for legs without times). |
| Details | Operator (airline, rail company), Service number (flight or train number), Cost, Currency, Notes. |
| Placement | Shown on its day under: which travel section of the day it sits in. |
| Return trip | Also add the return trip (below). |
Click Save. Below the form are the leg's Confirmations and Contacts & info.
Times and time zones
Times are typed as the clock shows them where the leg leaves (Departure (local)) and where it arrives (Arrival (local)), each with its place's time zone, such as Europe/Berlin. The trip page shows them the same way, whatever time zone you read it from: a 10:00 train from Frankfurt says 10:00 CEST in New York too.
Leave both times blank while a leg is only planned. Once you add them, the leg's date follows its departure.
Which day a leg is on
A leg appears on the day it departs. An overnight flight shows on the day it leaves, with "(+1 day)" on its arrival. A leg whose date isn't one of the trip's days is listed on the trip page under Journeys not on any day, so it isn't lost: edit its date.
Return trips
Tick Also add the return trip when you save a leg, and give the return's times (or just its day, if it's only planned). The site adds a second leg back the other way, with the ends and time zones swapped and the mode and operator copied. The two legs are separate from then on.
Travel sections
By default a day's legs are on its timeline in time order. If you'd rather group them under a heading of the day's own, such as "Getting there", add a travel section ("Add a travel section" on Edit trip, or the Travel button on the day's page) and choose it under Shown on its day under on each leg. A travel section can also hold reference rows, such as a ticket's price.
Problems
| Problem | What to do |
|---|---|
| A leg is on the wrong day | Check its Date, or its departure time and time zone. |
| The times look hours off | Check each end's time zone. A blank zone means UTC. |
| A leg isn't drawn on the map | Pick its From city and To city. |
| "Turn into legs" rows came out as the wrong places | Edit each leg's ends; see tidying an itinerary. |
Related guides
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- How to add a day to your tripAdd a day, fill in its details, then add legs, activities and meals to it.
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- The budget and splitting costsRecord who paid for what, see each person's share and who owes whom, and see the whole trip in one currency.
- Tidying an itineraryTurn travel tables into real journeys, and use the clean-up suggestions to remove text that repeats a booking or contact.
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