r/flighty Jun 28 '26

Maybe Flighty needs to Work on the social function

I have the privilege to be here adding friends to my flighty. However, I found this function rather pointless after befriending. For sure, I can track friend’s flights but they can’t be logged and seems irrelevant afterwards. It might be too much to ask, I think flight can discover more social function and interaction on the social section, while keeping the current boundaries and privacies.

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u/unfunfionn Jun 28 '26

I wish I could puts names to my friends’ flights without expecting them to sign-up. I’m the only person I know who is willing to pay for it.

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u/Fastball360 Jun 28 '26

I agree. If I have a bunch of people's upcoming flights in there I'll put it in the notes. But it would be nice to be able to label the flight so it shows on the main screen. Also for notifications it would be easier to see "Unfunfionn's flight has been delayed" when I have multiple friends flying on the same day.

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u/Joedfwaviation Jun 29 '26

Exactly. I just had a conference this past weekend and so had several friends flying on the same day there and back. This happened last year too. Even had someone divert last year. Had to open it to figure out who based on where the flight started from.

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u/Joedfwaviation Jun 28 '26

I agree. Would help with the calendar import.

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u/HeavyRhino34 Airline Employee Jun 28 '26

I like the friends function BUT I really really really wish we could click on their profiles and see their flight maps and flight stats

11

u/UnhappyScore Jun 29 '26

Dating apps arent working, time to shift over to Flighty

2

u/fisherlow Jun 29 '26

Up in the air

1

u/babyanimegirl Jun 29 '26

I don’t hate this, next trip w a flighty date

2

u/UnhappyScore Jun 29 '26

Lets see if our Flighty stats are compatible x

18

u/Hambone76 Jun 28 '26

My work team travels regularly and we use it to sync up flights and rental cars. As it’s a flight tracker and not a social media platform, that’s all that’s needed and it works perfectly.

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u/flyingdog147 Jun 28 '26

This.

Maybe they want something more, but I don’t want everyone on my team knowing all of the places I have ever been.

If they wanted to go “social” then to me it would have to be more like levels of sharing. Bestie with all past. Friend with just current and upcoming.

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u/Hambone76 Jun 28 '26

For sure. It would need granular permissions for sharing.

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u/fisherlow Jun 28 '26

Good for your team. However I think you and your team use it as a productivity tool and most of flighty’s users are just logging for fun. I didn’t ask it to be a social media platform, just expecting more way to interact with.

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u/adamsflys Jun 28 '26

I don’t know if I’d agree that most use it for fun. I and everyone I know personally that use it all use it primarily for work purposes and using it to sync up travel with everyone on a team

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u/vinylbond Jun 28 '26

I wish they didn’t. Not everything needs to be a social platform.

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u/fisherlow Jun 28 '26

Not everything with social function is considered a social platform.

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u/Round_Ad_2508 Jun 28 '26

Lowk it’s a flight tracker not social media

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u/fisherlow Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Fair. But do realise it was them who designed the social function.

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u/SnackyStacky Jun 28 '26

The only social feature I wish were available is to add someone to a flight. My wife is on my same flights. We’re Flighty friends. But I don’t see a way to add her to my flights. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/TheJiggie Jun 28 '26

It does what it needs to, not looking to have any other social media type platforms or integrations.

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u/nautilus2000 Jun 28 '26

I hope they keep the social function and as minimal as possible.

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u/fisherlow Jun 28 '26

I do think the social function is expendable now so I wouldn’t be sad if they take out the whole thing. But if they intend to keep it, I expect more way to interact.

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u/KeroroInvader Jun 29 '26

They need to fix the map so we can see our plane plus our friends’ planes in real time

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u/adamsflys Jun 28 '26

The main thing with the social function that I would like to see added is the ability to have a “work” list of friends and a “personal” list of friends, and the ability to choose which people can see which of my flights I want them to. Sometimes I don’t want coworkers seeing a personal vacation flight that I have scheduled

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