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Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by ZeWaka »

exidy wrote: post #20
sneak wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flighty is poorly designed. It’s one of those slick apps designed to superficially look nice without actually being well-thought-out. That’s not what design is or should mean; that’s just aesthetics. Case in point: one of the most important pieces of data for a flight, its duration, is displayed in the tiniest type size on the flight info display pane, in light grey text on a slightly darker grey background. It’s bor…

> one of the most important pieces of data for a flight, its duration Flighty is all about getting you to the airport in time for your flight, so the most important pieces of information are things like departure times, connection times, delay information, terminal and boarding gate. These are prioritised in the interface. The flight duration is set when you book the flight and it's not going to change, there is no r…

Boarding is hard because it's at the discretion of the airlines, yeah. Departure time is easier because of https://www.fly.faa.gov/edct/showEDCT

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by newscracker »

bombcar wrote: post #28
danpalmer wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”

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.

Re: Flighty Airports

#33

Post by Gagarin1917 »

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.

Challenge accepted

Re: Flighty Airports

#34

Post by gaintchicken »

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.

Fascinating, I was struck by the exact opposite. The text overflowed the search bar, the bottom table was difficult to read, the airports all just kind of pulsed brown every couple seconds, I assumed this was a slopped together weekend project someone was advertising here.

Re: Flighty Airports

#35

Post by kylehotchkiss »

exidy wrote: post #24

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.

They can do both things at once. Airports desperately need to be displaying accurate information and stop letting gate agents make random calls based on their interpreting of company policy

Re: Flighty Airports

#36

Post by jryio »

gaintchicken wrote: post #34
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.

Fascinating, I was struck by the exact opposite. The text overflowed the search bar, the bottom table was difficult to read, the airports all just kind of pulsed brown every couple seconds, I assumed this was a slopped together weekend project someone was advertising here.

I am commenting on the entire app experience on iOS not a single web app they released today (which unfortunately is what can be linked on HN).

Read the other comments and you'll see the same, download the iOS app and use that as your basis for commenting.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by FireBeyond »

newscracker wrote: post #32
bombcar wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”

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.

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.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by bombcar »

FireBeyond wrote: post #37
newscracker wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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.

Re: Flighty Airports

#39

Post by LeoPanthera »

nixass wrote: post #19

A website requiring me to download their app for detailed report on certain airport is not worth my time.

Flighty is an app. Not a website. The website just tells you about the app.

I think you probably know that though.

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