Even airlines which are renowned for their punctuality can be subject to delays, but you often don’t find out how behind your flight is until you arrive at the airport.
Well, not anymore, with the help of flight tracking app Flighty. It’s a tool (which also comes in website form) that guarantees passengers it will inform them of delays before they’ve even been announced by their airline.
How? Well, it uses a type of AI called machine learning to follow late-arriving aircrafts and predict delays up to six hours in advance.
Pulling data from air traffic control, including everything from airport issues to details on ground stops and the weather conditions, allows it to provide travellers with more detailed insight into baggage belts, gate information to departure times.
Oh, and a new roll out which the platform has dubbed its ‘Airport Intelligence’ update explains what’s caused the delay and can even tell you how long you might be sitting waiting for the aircraft to take off if you’ve boarded. Handy, eh?
‘Airlines often keep delay information under wraps until the last minute. Flighty doesn’t,’ reads the official website. ‘We track the inbound aircraft 25 hours before your flight, so we can predict a new departure time long before the airline notifies you.’
The app enables you to track specific flights as well as assessing the situation at more than 14,000 airports. At the time of writing, Flighty shows 78 percent of flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport are on schedule, 23 percent are delayed by more than 15 minutes, but none have been cancelled.
Other features include Flighty Friends, which enables you to share your journey status with whoever might be collecting you upon arrival, as well as details on the model of aircraft on which you’ve flown most frequently – if you’re into that kind of thing.
And a fair few people are already using it – the platform claims that there’s at least one Flighty user on two out of three US flights, and AirAdvisor expert Anton Radchenko told Metro that ‘passengers increasingly want real-time visibility for their journeys, especially when disruption is involved, which explains why these apps are getting popular.’
It’s free to download from the Apple App Store.
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