Flighty app

[Mattg]

Does anyone use the Flighty app? Is it worth the $79/year subscription fee?

It looks like it would do a pretty good job of tracking your flights, including notifying you of delays before the airline does. I also like the feature where it saves a history of your past flights, including the actual flight path taken and tail number.

Can it also keep track of your upcoming bookings, a bit like TripIt?

 

[serfty]

Reviews seem good, and I began to research seriously.

Then realisation hit that it should be called iFlighty.

Until the notional i is removed, It is dead to me.

 

[smiliemonster]

It's my new favourite travel app. Yes, it does sync with Tripit. Change notifications are pretty good, but I have had one or two which seem wrong. In fairness, the 'error' range isn't much different than EF.

The bit I really love (for no apparent reason - it just appeals to my inner geek ) is the information when you're in flight. It tracks the submitted schedule, including when you should start descent, arrival gate etc. The graphics are good too. I still use Tripit and EF, but I've found this a great addition to my toolkit.

 

[smiliemonster]

Would there be much point in having both, in order for them to sync? Or at least in having paid TripIt Pro & paid Flighty.

What does Flighty do that TripIt Pro doesn't?

I don't use Tripit Pro anymore so others might be better placed to comment. In general I found Tripit Pro too flaky (delays in gate info, missing change notifications for example), and the things I really valued from Tripit were available in the free version. What I like about Flighty may well be covered in Tripit Pro now (and it may well be similar or better). Can someone who uses both advise?

 

[RooFlyer]

From reviews, it looks like it has a great UI, but past that, many reviews question the price for the utility.

I wonder if it gives me $79 more than TripIt Pro, other than a nicer display?

 

[ThePW]

I am waiting for the Android app. Until then, I use the free version on my partner's iPhone for the nice graphics and tracking.

 

[andyrb]

many reviews question the price for the utility.

I've been trying out the app over the last week and like what it does.

However, as a casual flyer, I can't justify the prices they're asking. It's also a bit annoying that every useful feature is behind a subscription.

If I were flying regularly, yeah, I'd pay it.

 

[RooFlyer]

However, as a casual flyer, I can't justify the prices they're asking. It's also a bit annoying that every useful feature is behind a subscription.

Do you mean behind the base subscription or subscriptions on top of that within the app?

 

[andyrb]

Do you mean behind the base subscription or subscriptions on top of that within the app?

The base subscription is showing as $79 annually. At most I take two return trips a year, maybe three.

It has great features, but as I said, I can't justify the price against my use.

 

[RooFlyer]

The base subscription is showing as $79 annually. At most I take two return trips a year, maybe three.

It has great features, but as I said, I can't justify the price against my use.

Thanks - I might take one for the team and give it a go for a year. Its going to be a busy one for me.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Massive fan of flighty. I use it all the time. The graphics are brilliant and it’s great when using Real Time during trips. It has a widget that gives time to boarding etc.

 

[RooFlyer]

Cool - imported 365 flights from TripIt (which I've been using for a while ). Only thing unhappy with is that it took payment - I assume in US$ - automatically from ApplePay default card (NAB) rather than me being allowed to choose 28 degree card. And it thinks I'm in Melbourne ...


Looking forward to my next flight.

 

[RealtimeY]

Whilst I couldn’t justify the cost for Flighty, I did think App in the Air was quite reasonably priced as an alternative (including the lifetime subscription) that nobody seems to talk about. It’s not quite as slick as Flighty and is a bit buggy but it does what I need it to.

 

[jbman]

I want to love flighty, but I have tried it on a couple of trips with minimal updates coming from the app for either VA or smaller airlines in Europe.

I have found alerts from Award Wallet to be much more consistent and useful than Flighty.

I use App in the Air as well, it’s nice, but has a few quirks like not updating flights when they are changed or added to after the initial import from Trip It. Support just advised to delete and re-sync, which is a bit of a pain

 

[tassie6]

I only go on a couple big trips a year so just subscribe for a month when I head off instead of the whole year, then cancel before it rolls over to the next (assuming I am home). Not needed for any short domestic hops for me

The live activity on your Home Screen showing all the relevant info is great. Also enjoy adding friends/families flights in to keep an eye on but they don’t get added to your tally if classified correctly, just disappear after flight is done

 

[RooFlyer]

Have been using Flighty for a few flights now and its excellent (although none of the flights were significantly delayed, so haven't tested that bit). Combines the functionality of TripIt Pro and Flight Aware/FR24 (and a little bit of myFR24/OpenFlights)

Retrieves actual flight plan data just before the flight, tracks you in flight, constantly modifies gate departure/taxi time, arrival, gate arrival data (if you have wifi); total history of the aircraft you are on, where it is incoming from, history of early/on time/late/very late for that flight for the past 60 days, my personal history on the route (across carriers), gives baggage carousel number and loads more.

If you input a future flight into TripIt, and have the accounts linked, Flighty imports them instantly and plots them on a globe. I have 50 flights booked, abt 100K miles

Found issue that that @jbman mentioned (I think): after you import from TripIt, if you then edit a flight in TripIt (for instance, changing a flight number such that it reverses the route), both flights stick in Flighty - but you can delete the surplus flight with a swipe.

 

[FishFood]

I've found Flighty pretty good, and use it in conjunction with Tripit Pro. I used to only have a monthly subscription on the months I travelled, but recently changed to an annual subscription. I like the constant stream of notifications about when the inbound aircraft arrives, and when the gate is assigned etc.

 

[tassie6]

Another feature that is cool, but haven't tried myself, on US carriers apparently it is pretty common to get free wifi for messaging services only. Flighty receives its live activities data apparently somehow through iMessage data, so Flighty will keep working and sending you flight updates on the free wifi tier

 

[RooFlyer]

Something I wasn't expecting. I get (quite loud!) alerts on my phone from the Flighty app about schedule changes (Qantas and a LATAM QF code-share so far), and the times in the flight schedule I have loaded, changes. Very neat.

Changes have been 20-40 mins in international departures, about 3 months away. New time alerted by Flighty tonight not yet in Qantas MMB, or notified by TripIt. Prior changes I've noticed in the MMB website some time after - don't know when they appeared as I didn't look immediately.

@Princess Fiona - does this mirror your experience?

 

[Princess Fiona]

Something I wasn't expecting. I get (quite loud!) alerts on my phone from the Flighty app about schedule changes (Qantas and a LATAM QF code-share so far), and the times in the flight schedule I have loaded, changes. Very neat.

Changes have been 20-40 mins in international departures, about 3 months away. New time alerted by Flighty tonight not yet in Qantas MMB, or notified by TripIt. Prior changes I've noticed in the MMB website some time after - don't know when they appeared as I didn't look immediately.

@Princess Fiona - does this mirror your experience?

No I haven’t had anything like that
I’m in the middle of a massive multi sector itinerary and don’t recall getting any pings at all.

I’ll check my settings shortly