Hey Yall, we've launched Flighty 4 this week, with 2 features I'm sure you are all aware of – but have never seen integrated and automated to this degree.
1. We've taken "Where's My Plane" to the next-level. Using Machine Learning on turnaround times to predict how much your late arriving aircraft will delay your departure. So if you plane is 2 hours late, but you still have sufficient turn around time, we won't bother you! And the opposite... how often has your flight been "On Time" but clearly the aircraft is an hour late. Yep, we solved that with automatic tracking, calculating, alerts, and then follow on alerts as soon as anything changes (tail swap, or the rare "making up time"). Our predictions have been >95% accurate to-date. (And we ALWAYS show the "official times", we never replace them with our prediction, we just show our prediction alongside it.) We also redesigned the Where's My Plane tile to make it even more
2. We've integrated FAA NAS and public Eurocontrol data to automatically do the same thing many of you always do – checking NAS for ground stops, probably ground stops, delay reasons, re-routes, TMI's, ... you name it (Including EDCT's for those that know what those are!). We parse allllll of that, figure out which apply to your flight down to tail number + time + route and then alert plus list what affects or will affect your flight, in plain language.
There's a few more other things, like live airport performance trends, a new Where's My Plane design to make it even more clear where your plane is along the journey with big red/green/orange badges, improved tail number coverage, and showing your aircraft's name (eg. how JetBlue and Lufthansa name each aircraft).
This all comes together in a new "status bar" that has added the top #1 concern for each flight *at that time*. Some examples:
- 8 hours before your flight we might say "inbound plane is 2 stops away and running on time"
- 3 hours before your flight we might say "ATC is monitoring thunderstorms at JFK until 1:30pm"
- 2 hours before your flight we might say "ground stop at ORD is delaying your inbound flight but you it should still enough turnaround time"
- 30 min before your flight we might say "probable ground stop starting in 50 mins"
There are over 300 custom summaries, each with infinite variants based on the late aircraft and actual ATC info.
*Our goal is to always show "what would a flight nerd who studied this flight, right now, tell me, in plain language."* and you can tap on it to see more info where we came to that conclusion.
We're very proud of it. So far the response has been extremely positive. But with something this large we expect to make some tune ups too. I'm excited to see what yall think!
It should help you diagnose flights faster, and maybe replace some of the manual work you do for family and friends on flight statuses too.
It's all part of Flighty Pro (with no price increase). And all new users get it free on their first flight. Let us know what you think! (Some good stuff too please, 🤣
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