mmcmah

Yup, I paid for Flight+ (now Flight Tracker). As far as I could tell, the only difference was the ads.

Yes, this is a massive PITA and none of the existing products are nearly as good as FlightTrack Pro was (I never made the move to v5, as the original one was better).

techie

I see your point, but how much of an inconvenience is it to remove and reinstall the app when you do use that rare airline? It'd probably take me less than a minute to find and install any airline app.

BThumme

Issue I have with this is that the airline rarely updates as fast as FlightTrack Pro did. I mean, I got delay notices/gate changes well before it showed up at the actual gate, let alone the respective app.

techie

I hope that you reported this to the airline in question so that they can improve their app.

xvirginx

I gave up with the app. It's info is inconsistent and well, didn't work properly, especially for me who uses LHR quite a bit. . Contacted the app developer who admits they are constantly trying to keep it updated and running smoothly, but can only do so much. They are currently working on improving the app, and also looking at options to improve our flight data and accuracy.

In the meantime, my search continues.

mmcmah

Which app?

xvirginx

Oops, It's FlightTracker+

Bohemian1

Agree that this was a great app. First hobbled by TripIt and then it just melted down.

Flightview is my current replacement. Not quite as good, but haven't found anything better.

laserjok

Since end of February I have tried all the flight tracking app I could possibly find on the App Store, and for me in Europe the winner is app in the air. Of course you need the paid version and I'm missing some features from flighttrack like statistics. flight+ also called "flight tracker" would be my second choice but until now it never gave me any gate information nor gate change

Bohemian1

I'm looking at it too. I like the integration with Tripit and the ability to mine my email. I can't seem to find a flightboard option like the FT Pro app used to have. It was useful for FAA status at airports and inbound connections if nothing else.

xvirginx

I've found "miFlightBoard" on the App Store - not perfect but gives gate info and very much like the old "flightboard" which existed previously. It's not free but I needed to find something that actually worked.

Flyiboy

I downloaded the "free" version and its basic. A turn off for me is the RED arrivals and departures columns. Red is meant to be a delayed flight. I think they need to change th color scheme like a time traffic light. I'm on the fence with the paid versions though..

BThumme

I saw they have a 3.99 version of "mi Flight Tracker Pro" - can anyone comment on this? From one of the pictures, it at least looks like it shows a map of actual flight path

Edit: Bought it, going to give it a try. It looks kinda messy, but it appears to have the information I'm looking for. It's hard to love again after being dumped, but maybe this is the right one. Some really quick thoughts: despite looking very ugly, this has a lot of potential. I did see that under options, I can turnoff codeshares (and change time to 12 hours); it also has the option to display air time or gate to gate time. The app shows tail numbers for flights as well, and actual flight maps. The only thing is, I'm not sure if it has push notifications? I've added a flight to depart in 2.5 hours, will see what happens, but this appears to have some promise.

On the downside, I can only search historically a couple days, and I have to save a flight to view the details.

Double edit: So...there doesn't seem to be any type of push notifications. I used UA 1767 DEN-DCA as my example. The flight ended up pushing back 5 minutes early, and has a gate arrival of about 20 minutes early currently. mFTP didn't have any of that updates as of 9:50 am (5 minutes after scheduled pushback); re-searching for the flight did show the updated information, but I hope I don't have to search every time I need updates.

Triple Edit: Flight did update correctly (on its own) for takeoff, BUT, no push notifications. If the app had push notifications, I would point everyone to the app this second. Looks like it might be "Flight Tracker (formely Flight+) for push notifications, mFTP for all my detailed info."

nestorph

I've been using FlightView for the past month. I travel weekly with a round trip and each trip having two legs--so four flights total. It's not bad but having used FlightTrack for so many years, I know what I'm missing. I passed along some screenshots and suggestions to the FV team and hope they'll incorporate them some day.

My pet peeves:

• I always liked the widget function that provides summary information quickly. FV shows the flight numbers but no gate or time info in the widget. Also, no calculation of the layover time
• Similarly, once you bounce to the app itself, you get detailed info about each leg, but no info about the relationship between the two. I appreciated how FT would allow you click through a flight combination, showing you the takeoff and landing times as well as gate info in a seamless stream
• The are no airport terminal maps

I spent the few bucks on the ad-free version. Still on the hunt...

steveo0

None of the other apps I've tried or read about in this thread seem able to serve as a replacement for FlightTrack for me.

I've been fiddling with the TripCase app this afternoon and so far that seems like it might tide me over until something more akin to FlightTrack shows up. Has anyone had longer experience with it and if so could you share impressions?