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Re: Flighty Airports

#21

Post by joezydeco »

alberth wrote: post #18
jryio wrote: post #9

Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.

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…

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

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by danpalmer »

alberth wrote: post #18
jryio wrote: post #9

Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.

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…

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.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by lelandbatey »

alberth wrote: post #18
jryio wrote: post #9

Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.

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…

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

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by exidy »

While I appreciate the aesthetics of this feature I actually fear it represents a loss of focus for Flighty. As a traveller, I don't need a global view of airport disruptions, I need relevant info for my flights.

Given the prominent TV Mode button in the interface, this update seems to be about competing with Flightradar24, who sell business subscriptions for airports and related sectors for information displays.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by aresant »

Clicked this and was hopeful it was a TSA-line-tracker

Anybody have a good solution that's utilizing actual traveler data vs the (non existent atm) TSA data?

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by trillic »

joezydeco wrote: post #21
alberth wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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

FlightAware and Flighty are usually within seconds of each other and always ahead of the airlines.

Re: Flighty Airports

#28

Post by bombcar »

danpalmer wrote: post #22
alberth wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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 d…

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”

Re: Flighty Airports

#29

Post by annexrichmond »

jryio wrote: post #9

Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.

I don’t get why they get so much praise for design with such a big design flaw:

If a flight is delayed even 1 minute, it’s highlighted as red text. This throws me off every time.

Google does not this. It still shows as green if it’s just a few minutes delayed.

I’ve reported this to the Flighty team and they ignored me so I can only assume they think this is a good idea, and I will therefore never pay for their app.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by ZeWaka »

If you fly a lot, you might also be aware of the National Airspace System Status: https://nasstatus.faa.gov/

It also has links to a lot of other information useful for people in the airline industry.

I find the Airport Arrival Demand Chart to be good for seeing a big picture of all the flights: https://www.fly.faa.gov/aadc/

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