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Flighty is very pretty, but I’m not giving up FlightAware anytime soon. I travel a lot, and frequently encounter flight delays. It’s mind boggling difficult to

by alberth 7mo ago

Flighty is very pretty, but I’m not giving up FlightAware anytime soon. I travel a lot, and frequently encounter flight delays. It’s mind boggling difficult to find out where my plane is when it’s delayed via Flighty. This and a few other things, FlightAware gets right. I feel like Flighty is for rare leisure traveler and FlightAware is for weekly business and/or pilot traveler. I’ve honestly had better luck with iOS built in flight tracker than Flighty itself.

joezydeco 7mo ago
Flighty routinely tells me about cancelled flights before any other app or the airline itself.
- trillic 7mo ago
  FlightAware and Flighty are usually within seconds of each other and always ahead of the airlines.
  - lobochrome 7mo ago
    (except United)
danpalmer 7mo ago
Flighty is in a weird place because I'm a rare/leisure traveller and wow Flighty nowhere near reasonably priced for that market. I used it in free mode when I was on iOS, but it would be ~£10 per trip for something that would improve my life less than a coffee at the airport. In my opinion they need to aggressively cut costly features (like weather data), and if they have different international data feeds, perhaps do region locked pricing. I don't fly to the US much, so let me buy a Europe and Asia subscription and skip the US costs. Or vice-versa. It would have needed to be ~£10 a year at most.
- bombcar 7mo ago
  What does it actually do? People seem to get very excited about it but my flight status is always either “on the plane” or “not on the plane”
  - newscracker 7mo ago
    The promise is that it informs you quickly about flight delays, flight cancellations and gate changes. In my limited experience, it didn’t work satisfactorily for a flight delay of a few hours. It could not provide any reliable updates. It’s a nice app and service, but I wouldn’t trust all those reviews that are like “I knew before the aircraft pilot knew”. It has its own limitations.
    - FireBeyond 7mo ago
      Yeah, the most notable "use", not necessarily "value", is when the airline is still prevaricating over the delay, you're approaching boarding time and you can see from ADS-B that the inbound aircraft hasn't even begun initial descent.
      - bombcar 7mo ago
        I still don't really see the use, but maybe there are large swaths of people who stay home until they can leave at the very last minute. I'm almost certainly going to be waiting at the airport anyway by the time the delay is confirmed.
        strange_quark 7mo ago
        Last year Flighty literally saved me from an overnight delay because it notified me the incoming aircraft was still on the ground at the previous airport. I was able to snag the last couple seats on a later scheduled flight which actually departed. My original flight ended up getting canceled.
        7mo ago
lelandbatey 7mo ago
I agree, I find that the "MiseryMap" from flightaware is less "pretty" but much more informationally dense. https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/ https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

by alberth 7mo ago

joezydeco 7mo ago

Flighty routinely tells me about cancelled flights before any other app or the airline itself.

trillic 7mo ago
FlightAware and Flighty are usually within seconds of each other and always ahead of the airlines.
- lobochrome 7mo ago
  (except United)

danpalmer 7mo ago

Flighty is in a weird place because I'm a rare/leisure traveller and wow Flighty nowhere near reasonably priced for that market. I used it in free mode when I was on iOS, but it would be ~£10 per trip for something that would improve my life less than a coffee at the airport. In my opinion they need to aggressively cut costly features (like weather data), and if they have different international data feeds, perhaps do region locked pricing. I don't fly to the US much, so let me buy a Europe and Asia subscription and skip the US costs. Or vice-versa. It would have needed to be ~£10 a year at most.

bombcar 7mo ago
What does it actually do? People seem to get very excited about it but my flight status is always either “on the plane” or “not on the plane”
- newscracker 7mo ago
  The promise is that it informs you quickly about flight delays, flight cancellations and gate changes. In my limited experience, it didn’t work satisfactorily for a flight delay of a few hours. It could not provide any reliable updates. It’s a nice app and service, but I wouldn’t trust all those reviews that are like “I knew before the aircraft pilot knew”. It has its own limitations.
  - FireBeyond 7mo ago
    Yeah, the most notable "use", not necessarily "value", is when the airline is still prevaricating over the delay, you're approaching boarding time and you can see from ADS-B that the inbound aircraft hasn't even begun initial descent.
    - bombcar 7mo ago
      I still don't really see the use, but maybe there are large swaths of people who stay home until they can leave at the very last minute. I'm almost certainly going to be waiting at the airport anyway by the time the delay is confirmed.
      - strange_quark 7mo ago
        Last year Flighty literally saved me from an overnight delay because it notified me the incoming aircraft was still on the ground at the previous airport. I was able to snag the last couple seats on a later scheduled flight which actually departed. My original flight ended up getting canceled.
        7mo ago

lelandbatey 7mo ago

I agree, I find that the "MiseryMap" from flightaware is less "pretty" but much more informationally dense. https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/ https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/