Now this is interesting / impressive / weird. Three days ago I wrote:
Today WestJet has sent me an email saying the flight has been cancelled.
I didn't go as far as making a dummy booking when the Flighty alert came. I checked my booking on the airline website and I searched EF for WS flights on my route and day of travel. Everything appeared fine, so I posted here.
Can anyone enlighten me as to what's likely to have been going on behind the scenes? Is Flighty even better than I thought?
Originally Posted by
Cyberpower678
I’ve noticed that too. Flighty tends to report a cancellation well before Thai Airways does. I thought it was a glitch, that would correct itself since the booking remained unchanged, but the next day I was told my flights were rebooked onto a different time, by the airlines to consolidate the flights.
I can't share the secret sauce, but we got *extremely good* at detecting far-future cancellation and sending alerts during COVID. 😎 We should advertise it more... 🤔
We are very very often 1-3 days before anything else. But you're right, it does create skepticism when everywhere else denies it, even the airline sometimes! Searching ITA Matrix is the only thing I've found that sometimes confirms it.