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It may not be feasible (at least easily), but it would be really nice that the "Add to calendar" link displays automatically rather than after a click on the Card to calendar button.

I consistently get January 1, 2015 (which is incorrect).

Great plugin, though!! Saves me a lot of time - thanks for the effort.

I updated the extension, which required some more permissions (which I granted).
Now, the "card to calendar" button is permanently visible and active, even on pages that do not contain any flight information, and even when all tabs containing flight information are closed.
On Gmail, in the flight information card, the "add to calendar" link displays only after I click the "card to calendar" button. I don't know whether this is a technical limitation, but it would be more convenient if the link displayed directly, without any additional action, in my opinion.

The problem occurs when I click on the "add to calendar" link: this action opens a new calendar tab, but no event is added to the calendar (although the flight information seems to be included in the URL).
I tried with 3 different flights of 2 different airlines, which gave me the same result.
I can provide the URLs, if necessary.
My version of Chrome is up to date (36.0.1985.143 m).
I am logged in on several gmail accounts at once, and I tried the extension on data which is in the first account (id=0 in the gmail URL).

When I use this extension, I save the new event with no modification to the default data.
It would save a click to directly add the event to the calendar, and display the calendar (maybe with the GCal confirmation message) on that day, with no need of a validation.

There are two issues regarding the handling of times and dates:

1. If the flight arrives the next day in the morning (e.g. leaves 9PM, arrives 6AM next day) then the date for the arrival is wrong: It will put both departure and arrival as the same date, which is obviously impossible.
2. If the times are in the local timezones of the respective airports then the times will be wrong. Example: Leave time is 8PM timezone Paris, arrival time is 10PM timezone New York, the flight takes 12 hours. Then it will put the flight as only 2h long, as it doesn't know about the timezone.

From looking at the Gmail card HTML, there seems to be no easy way to fix this: The date/timezone is not specified in the HTML card at all. So basically this is just an FYI so you are aware of these shortcomings/pitfalls with the Gmail cards. Also this means that implementing issue #3 is probably not a good idea at least for flights.