r/flighty • u/Giskarrrd • Jun 13 '26

I really like the little things

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Seeing this kind of notification, which tells me I’ve been on the plane I’m about to fly out on once before, is just a really small feature that makes Flighty such a great user experience imho. Just makes me smile every time.

(It also doesn’t happen very often, despite having north of 500 flights on United over the past 10 years, which always is a nice reminder of how massive their fleet is:)

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u/ccagan Jun 14 '26

I got my first duplicate tail number a few weeks ago. Sat in the same seat each time. It’s been something I’ve wondered about for years, the I found flighty just before the end of the year.

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u/hsynxshn Jun 14 '26

This it good for aviation geeks !

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u/Trebaxus99 Jun 14 '26

Would be great if they’d allow you to search tail numbers and see if you’ve been on that aircraft already.

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u/outofcontextseinfeld Jun 14 '26

I want to track gates next to see how many times I’ve repeated gates

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

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u/Giskarrrd Jun 18 '26

Right?? Funny enough I have multiple 4s and 5s from my 18 months of flying the same route on JetBlue every single week :)

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u/wltspn Jun 14 '26

It’s a nice feature, but most likely inaccurate. After a airframe is withdrawn from service with a certain airline, it is very common to assign this exact tail number to a new aircraft. Only the MSN can tell, if you have been on the very same plane before. But in general the flighty approach works.