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Old Jul 20, 2005 | 12:33 pm
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Flight Status Notification

Ok, so I tried a search and can't get the darn thing working...

Lately (crappy weather in the area) I've been incredibly frustrated by the airlines' inability to provide accurate flight status.

For example, I'm sitting at the Marine Air Terminal, staring at a Delta Shuttle display board that says my flight is departing on time at 7:30pm. It is 7:15pm. The plane that is supposed to be my flight (the 5:30pm from Boston) hasn't left Boston yet. What do you think the chances of my flight being on-time are? That's what I thought.

So, I'm trying to figure out if there's something out there that would let me easily connect from a PDA (think Blackberry) and tell it that I want to monitor the real-time status of a particular flight (say the plane that is scheduled to be the one for my flight), so that I can get a better idea of flight status. I found a few websites that will let me type in an airline/flight number and will give me real-time status, but they are fairly rich (not PDA friendly) and don't do updates well.

Any ideas or suggestions?
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