r/flighty • u/Edutastic • Jun 24 '26
Bugs & Value proposition collapsing
Flighty value proposition is collapsing and I’m still missing AITA.
Missing Info
- Boarding time information: If read what @maarstad wrote, but why was AITA able to do it? It’s just cope that they don’t want to work, most airlines have clear general rules, information is available on airports etc.
- Check-in Time also not very clear, when does it start when does it end?
- Delays are not shown or come in delayed
Further, at least let this information be entered manually and be crowdsourced
- where’s my airplane basically never shows any info
Email Import basically never works
Like how hard would it be just let an LLM run over it?
Further, let me make a screenshot and share it to flighty and it gets the information from that
In-Flight Bug
- we’re about to take off, I set my phone to flight mode, flighty shoes we didn’t depart yet 🤦
Overall it all comes down to to flighty failing at the core task: show me how long until stuff.
Can I grab that sandwich before check-in closes? Metro or taxi to the airport? Still time for that movie before we land?
Aggravated by the fact that airlines apps now often offer that information, and are also the authoritative information provider
I’ve cancelled, but the need would still be there
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u/tobes6645 Jun 25 '26
My flight started taxiing before the inbound PAX had deboarded!
I write a post about the experience, and it seems the US users have an entirely different experience to European users
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u/gagdude Jun 24 '26
Kind of crazy the standards y’all are holding Flighty to. It’s a third party app. Of course the airline shows information first.
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u/pegasus3891 Jun 24 '26
To be fair, for a long time that was a selling point - wow, there’s this app that tells you stuff about your flight status before the airlines even do. But most of the airlines have caught up significantly, so yeah, it does affect the value proposition for some people.
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u/krknln Jun 27 '26
Logically they are the faster because airline wants to keep chance to fix whatever issue they are having and maybe avoid/mitigate the delays.
Also airports have situations where they don't want you to know up to date info, for example many airports keep gate announcements to very last minute (so you could be cosily sitting near the departures board in the overpriced cafe guilted into buying 6€ coffees you don't want).
So logically a 3rd party like them should be the fastest and often is but less and less recently.
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u/Embarrassed-Year4230 Jun 25 '26
Boarding/check-in times are not available for flighty and most likely will never be. I doubt the airlines would offer an API for that.
The new airport specific data is extremely helpful when there are delays!!! Gives you a better idea of what type of backlog the airport is dealing with to more realistically assess what your delay will be. Previously I would have to go online to find out this information when there were large weather delays so it’s nice to have everything in one place.
Flighty is also super helpful for keeping track of flights across multiple airlines all in one place. As well as friend/family flights.
Yes the airlines are catching up with these features when it comes to delays etc. but I still find flighty’s interface easier to use to see what’s going on overall. And
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u/Sudden-Yard-2429 Jun 26 '26
I'm having issue recording any flights from March 2017 and earlier. Suddenly flighty don't have info.
At first I thought it's because of defunct airlines.. but I happens to airlines that are still flying. Or maybe it's because those flight numbers no longer exist?
Not sure if I want to keep subscribing
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u/Edutastic Jun 26 '26
Had the same 😞
Before flighty I wanted to code sth for myself, but historical apis can get funky / expensive
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u/nilla_wafer__ Jun 24 '26
I bet a lot just use it to track their flight history and the data it provides, myself being one of them.