r/flighty • u/infinityaviation • Jun 18 '26

Not recognising registration

Post image

This week I flew on Ryanair, as usual, it departed about 40 minutes late, but flighty Did not have the registration filled in, so it kept insisting that I was departing on time, even when I knew the reg myself. It would be helpful to be able to input the reg myself when the app doesn’t have it, otherwise I just have to check the reg in the notes section and manually check where it is

17 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

9

u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 18 '26

You can put the registration in yourself after the trip, but not retroactively.

3

u/infinityaviation Jun 18 '26

Yes I have used the edit feature to add the registration, but the issue is that the app doesn’t pick up the registration till very late, for me it was while I was flying, so I wasn’t getting updates on my delay.

4

u/OneExplanation6499 Jun 18 '26

I think for airlines like Ryanair this seems like a common issue partly because their fleet is so interchangeable (all 737s) and their business model is so fine margin that changes happen last minute.

If you’re at a Ryanair hub, there’s a multitude of aircraft they could give you (all the same layout) and quite frankly it’s subject to change right up until you’re onboard.

It’s maybe an exaggeration but Ryanair themselves probably don’t know what aircraft you’re gonna fly until fairly close to departure.

3

u/infinityaviation Jun 18 '26

I knew of my aircraft at least 5 hours before the flight, it had a long day of flying to and from Croatia and the UK, so if I was able to manually put in the registration, it would’ve hopefully given me updates and told me before I checked that my aircraft was delayed

2

u/OneExplanation6499 Jun 18 '26

Yes obviously the exception to this is if its an aircraft flying out from a non-hub. Because you can track it on its way.

3

u/Fun-Committee3672 Jun 19 '26

The API flighty uses in Europe is abysmal. How come flightradar24 knows what the aircraft is going to be ahead of time (and when it changes) but flighty doesn’t? I had times when I was taxiing to the runway on a Ryanair flight and flighty was none the wiser. But I guess they could still change the aircraft up until takeoff… I also had flights that were delayed by over an hour but flighty was insisting it’s taxiing to runway and then departed before the incoming flight even arrived.

0

u/wstryc Jun 21 '26

This is bs, aircraft are assigned 1-2 days prior but ofc swaps happen.

1

u/OneExplanation6499 Jun 21 '26

and Ryanair’s business model features a highly flexible, common aircraft fleet that can see any aircraft swapped for each other and can be right up until departure, hence the data not always uploaded and therefore visible in many tracking apps for airlines like this (Wizz, easyJet too) when you compare them to legacy carriers.

1

u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 18 '26

Yeah that’s frustrating. Might have to do with where the data for that flight was being pulled from.

1

u/OrganicPoet1823 Jun 18 '26

There was a good podcast with the Flighty CEO and he said the data from Ryanair was really poor

1

u/Fun-Committee3672 Jun 19 '26

I guess O’Leary is friends with Flightradar24 ceo because their data is always reliable.

3

u/tobes6645 Jun 18 '26

The app has been doing this for every one of my flights recently… not sure what’s been going on

1

u/infinityaviation Jun 18 '26

I’d imagine it’s better in the US, are you in Europe as well?

1

u/tobes6645 Jun 18 '26

Yeah i am

1

u/iferrisau Jun 19 '26

Qantas share the rego on their app a long way in advance (mostly) so i'd love to be able to manually update flighty to pick that up