Originally Posted by
jaysona
The boards downstairs right after security are fine and they don't cycle. I always check the boards - they haven't steered me wrong yet. Smartphone apps - not quite as reliable. I've more than a few AC app (both BB & iOS) notifications tell me that my next flight involves time travel.
Yes, but if you're headed to say gate 40 at YYZ, you have to turn right to then look at the board. Then you have to find your flight, and then your gate.
I'm not sure how Bing figures out the gate #, i'm sure AC is feeding them the same info as the airport (or whatever the feed is), but when there's a gate change, I get a thing that pops up at the top of my phone with something like AC XXX has updated flight info - or something, and I go in and I see the new gate. Right down to the minute-ish they announce it via the PA that there's been a gate change. I'm not as big of a time stickler as you jaysona, I just like hacking life and ever being more efficient while building in sufficient time "just in case" (traffic etc as I live far from YYZ)
Does the AC app do that? I mean if AC has an app for the iOS platform, surely it can do that. Oh wait.