Flighty Fights Delays
Juli Clover
I love Flighty. For anyone who flies a lot, it's a must-have. And now it's better:
Flighty is using aviation authority data and machine learning to provide early warnings of delays, and when a delay is official, the reason for the delay. Most delays are due to airspace issues and late aircraft, both of which Flighty will monitor.
The app is able to predict delays "hours in advance," and give information to Flighty users that airlines often decline to share. The result is more control over travel plans.
Even before this feature, I often found that Flighty would get data such a gate information and yes, delays, earlier than other services – including those from the airlines themselves. I'm guessing it was mainly the ability to actually leverage modern infrastructure to update such information faster versus, say, whatever outdated nonsense the airlines use.
But this would be next-level if it works as advertised. Which they're saying it does! And it better because this is not the type of think you want to mess up for people...
Information on air space delays is limited to the United States, Canada, and the European Union, though late aircraft, airport issues, and live delay trends are available worldwide.
Other new features in today's update include live airport performance trends, aircraft internal names, fixes for missing tail numbers, and clear in-app updates when flight schedules change.
Flighty is free to download (iOS, iPad OS, macOS), but these new features are a part of Flighty Pro, which costs $4/week or $48/year.
(This sort of reads like #sponcon, I assure you it's not. I'm legitimately just a big fan. See below – I'm about to hit 100 flights tracked over years and years!)
