Discussion
Major Airports & Disruptions
hmartin: Love Flightly, one of the best apps ever. Beautiful design + incredibly useful info.
ryeguy_24: I rarely bookmark things but just did. For some reason, I never get this data concisely from Google search and always look for it. Nice job.
pinkmuffinere: I think this may be a 'bug': as you zoom into the US west coast, SAN is visible before LAX. But LAX serves much more people every day, so a random person is much more likely to care about LAX. Intuitively, it seems to me that LAX should show up first. That could be intentional, but I can't think of a good reason why that choice would be made.
jerlam: I think the map is biased towards airports with the most disruptions, not the largest.
jryio: Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you.Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.
phinnaeus: Similar in Australia, BNE shows up before SYD.Edit: actually it's even weirder. Here's the zoom levels I see, from zoomed out, to zoomed in:- BNE, MEL- BNE, SYD, MEL- BNE, CBR, MEL (??)- BNE, SYD, CBR, MEL
enos_feedler: Notice a lot of Canadian airports are yellow right now. Is this normal?
reader9274: I have about 3000+ bookmarks in my KaraKeep instance
chiefgeek: Flighty is a great app. I travel a lot and use it all the time to manage my flights. Highly recommend.
jesterson: I wish the data would be more reliable (or they have better sanity checks) though. One of my flights suddenly "departed" one hour+ before scheduled time. I almost got heart attack.Needless to say there were no objective reasons for that - airport dashboard was showing proper time and flight departed with 30min delay (displayed by Flighty as 1.5hr delay).
jt2190: I was thinking this was something to help estimate the time to get through airport security. It's still very cool, though. I love the TV mode!
sneak: Flighty is poorly designed.It’s one of those slick apps designed to superficially look nice without actually being well-thought-out. That’s not what design is or should mean; that’s just aesthetics.Case in point: one of the most important pieces of data for a flight, its duration, is displayed in the tiniest type size on the flight info display pane, in light grey text on a slightly darker grey background. It’s bordering on illegible.
ezfe: I've never seen what you describe but I have seen other data issues. It usually depends on the airline, the same types of problems occur with the same airlines.I've asked and they say there's little they can do, the airlines systems are broadcasting this data and some airlines are better at it than others.
chupchap: Haha I came in to write the exact same thing. Such a weird choice
alberth: Flighty is very pretty, but I’m not giving up FlightAware anytime soon.I travel a lot, and frequently encounter flight delays. It’s mind boggling difficult to find out where my plane is when it’s delayed via Flighty. This and a few other things, FlightAware gets right.I feel like Flighty is for rare leisure traveler and FlightAware is for weekly business and/or pilot traveler.
nixass: A website requiring me to download their app for detailed report on certain airport is not worth my time.
lelandbatey: I agree, I find that the "MiseryMap" from flightaware is less "pretty" but much more informationally dense. https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/
danpalmer: Flighty is in a weird place because I'm a rare/leisure traveller and wow Flighty nowhere near reasonably priced for that market.I used it in free mode when I was on iOS, but it would be ~£10 per trip for something that would improve my life less than a coffee at the airport.In my opinion they need to aggressively cut costly features (like weather data), and if they have different international data feeds, perhaps do region locked pricing. I don't fly to the US much, so let me buy a Europe and Asia subscription and skip the US costs. Or vice-versa. It would have needed to be ~£10 a year at most.
joezydeco: Flighty routinely tells me about cancelled flights before any other app or the airline itself.
exidy: > one of the most important pieces of data for a flight, its durationFlighty is all about getting you to the airport in time for your flight, so the most important pieces of information are things like departure times, connection times and delay information. These are prioritised in the interface.The flight duration is set when you book the flight and it's not going to change, there is no reason to prioritise this.> It also doesn’t surface boarding timeI think this would be useful but difficult data to get. Airlines sometimes will push boarding announcements to their own apps but I doubt they would agree to feed Flighty.
bombcar: What does it actually do? People seem to get very excited about it but my flight status is always either “on the plane” or “not on the plane”
trillic: FlightAware and Flighty are usually within seconds of each other and always ahead of the airlines.
aresant: Clicked this and was hopeful it was a TSA-line-trackerAnybody have a good solution that's utilizing actual traveler data vs the (non existent atm) TSA data?
