Flighty Now Able to Provide Early Warnings About Flight Delays

[MacRumors]

Flight tracking app Flighty was today updated with a new feature that is designed to provide users with additional information on the reason behind delayed flights.

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.

For example, the airline might delay your flight by 30 minutes ... and then another hour. But with these updates, Flighty 4 can tell you that's likely to be at least a five-hour delay due to an official ground stop at your airport. That gives users more insight to adjust their travel plans on the fly rather than being stuck for hours at the airport.

Flighty tracks late arriving airplanes, Air Traffic Control notices, airport operational issues, weather problems, and even major events that can impact air traffic, such as the Super Bowl.

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 available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The app is free to download, but the delay features are part of Flighty Pro, which is priced at $4 for one week or $48 for a year. More information on the app can be found on the Flighty website.

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[eXoenDo]

Flighty has always been the best - glad it just keeps getting better!

 

[mattopotamus]

That is some interesting pricing..$4/week or $48/yr.

 

[DaveOP]

That is some interesting pricing..$4/week or $48/yr.

That's a company that doesn't want you to ever use the weekly sub, and priced it accordingly

 

[mdatwood]

That is some interesting pricing..$4/week or $48/yr.

If people fly once or twice a year, then $8 might be worth it to them.

 

[arc of the universe]

agree. that 4$ or 48$ pricing is a kind of pricing model that i haven't seen before.
it does work for both light or heavy travelers.

it is the best of class app anyway, at any price.

 

[nickawhite]

Seems like Flighty is best for travelers and FlightRadar24 is best for those of us who just can't resist looking up everytime a plane flies over.

 

[sw1tcher]

Flight tracking app Flighty was today updated with a new feature that is designed to provide users with additional information on the reason behind delayed flights.

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.

Probably wouldn't have been able to provide an early warning of flight delays and cancellations caused by Crowdstrike through 😂

 

[Dorv]

That is some interesting pricing..$4/week or $48/yr.

Really smart actually. I only fly 4-5x a year. Subscribe for a week and I have access to the pro side of the app for when I'm traveling, and then off when I don't.

 

[vertsix]

but the delay features are part of Flighty Pro, which is priced at $4 for one week or $48 for a year.

In the trash. Next app.

 

[timborama]

Meh. Free data form the airline

 

[nutmac]

That is some interesting pricing..$4/week or $48/yr.

I would prefer an in-app-purchase consumable option, such as 10 trips for $19.99.

 

[LogicalApex]

I would prefer an in-app-purchase consumable option, such as 10 trips for $19.99.

That’s a much worse pricing model.

How do you define a “trip”? Many people book with different airlines in various trip legs. Airlines can swap your flight and booking code at will. Flights can get cancelled and shifted as airlines have issues.

The current model avoids all of that mess.

 

[PsykX]

That design is gorgeous, love that app.

I can't wait to see if they have promos next black Friday. I'd like to get the lifetime offer but it's just too expensive to use it twice a year for me

 

[ethanwa79]

In the trash. Next app.

Why do people think that these services should be free or a one-time fee? You do realize that Flighty had to pay a bucketload of money yearly to provide this incoming stream of flight data. It’s the perfect example of an on-going service app and not a one-time product like a Calculator app.

 

[nutmac]

That’s a much worse pricing model.

How do you define a “trip”? Many people book with different airlines in various trip legs. Airlines can swap your flight and booking code at will. Flights can get cancelled and shifted as airlines have issues.

The current model avoids all of that mess.

I would define a trip as all subsequent flights departing within 24 hours from the first flight. Any more complex than that, subscribe to a weekly or an annual subscription plan.

 

[sfrsteel]

That is some interesting pricing..$4/week or $48/yr.

I bought the lifetime family plan.. Pricy but split it 6 ways and it works out great.

 

[xman71]

This and Carrot Weather are the only two apps that I regularly subscribe to - even if I am grounded at home and not flying I still have college age kids who fly on the regular and I can keep track of them. It's a great app and well worth the under $50 price a year.

 

[ignatius345]

That's a company that doesn't want you to ever use the weekly sub, and priced it accordingly

I actually like this pricing. I don't fly enough to justify the whole year, but would pay $8 to ease a couple weeks of flights on a vacation.

 

[samlikesmac]

So what are they doing, looking at the incoming plane info? ADS-B data is already public. Don’t know how useful this would really be since you're still delayed either way.

 

[cateye]

Meh. Free data form the airline

Not actually free. Those APIs are monetized depending on volume of use.

Think of it like most weather data—free for you or I, for the most part, but as soon as you create an app that does thousands or millions of API hits, it costs money. Potentially a lot of money. Look at what happened to the Reddit apps when Reddit choose to monetize its APIs for all but the most casual uses. This is happening everywhere to data access, both public and private.

Software that repurposes data feeds into useful UI/UX is only going to get more expensive as time passes. And most of that money passes directly to the data source, not the developer of the aggregator.

 

[Fibbons]

Great timing. I am currently waiting on a flight that should have departed already but is delayed and still at the airport. I downloaded Flighty, found the flight and clicked on it. It said it added it to ‘Past Flights’ - even though it has not taken off yet! I found it in ‘Past Flights’, tapped on it and cannot track it or find any details on when it is expected to depart. All of these details are available on Flight Radar. Useless. I have now deleted the app.

 

[foldpages]

It will be interesting to see if they are able to provide the correct delay and cancellation reasons the same way as ExpertFlyer can. Or if they are only pulling ground stop / weather data.

 

[grantishere]

Can they tell me if Crowd Strike is going to cause an outage though?

 

[quietstormSD]

I love how every company has to say that one of their features use "AI" or "Machine learning". Stop trying to up your evaluation and talk to customers, not investors. I won't be buying this "feature" anyway.