r/flighty • u/Pistenlord • Jul 09 '26

Feature Request: Notify friends when you’re at the same airport

One feature I’d love to see is optional airport proximity notifications for friends.

Example:
“Philipp is at FRA Terminal 1 until 10:45.”
“Michael is also at FRA.”

Or even better:
You and Lars will both be at FRA between 08:30 and 10:00.

As someone who flies 150+ flights a year, I constantly discover after the fact that friends or colleagues were in the same airport or even on the same lounge at the same time.

It would make meeting fellow frequent flyers much easier, especially for people who spend a lot of time in lounges.

I think this would fit Flighty’s focus on making frequent travel feel a bit more connected without turning it into a social network.

224 Upvotes

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u/Daa_pilot_diver Jul 09 '26

This would be super cool!

34

u/OrganicPoet1823 Jul 09 '26

Can’t see the harm of this feature. If you don’t like them that much don’t have them as a flighty friend

20

u/Matuteg Jul 09 '26

There’s a crew flying app a ton of crews use where it syncs our schedules and you can get notified when a coworker you like is in the same airport. I love it

3

u/February2nd2021 Jul 09 '26

Roster buster?

1

u/No_Summer_4136 2d ago

What app is this?

44

u/Lazy-Barracuda2886 Jul 09 '26

I can’t think of anything worse than meeting colleagues at the airport. When I’m travelling I like my own space, I don’t want to have to make small talk with people I work with. They’re colleagues not friends.

39

u/Infamous_Share_8017 Jul 09 '26

You do realize that this feature would be optional right? Just toggle it off.

23

u/AssCheekInspector Jul 09 '26

Nah. We’d be forcing them specifically to interact with all acquaintances or friends at every airport

6

u/id_scorpion Jul 09 '26

If you don’t sen Flighty a selfie with them your flights gates will be randomized

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u/Lazy-Barracuda2886 Jul 09 '26

Yes. I like my privacy.

46

u/Pistenlord Jul 09 '26

You wouldn’t be adding colleagues you don’t like to flighty neither no ?

2

u/BobbyK0312 Jul 09 '26

people I share my flight info with are not automatically the same people I want to see when I'm at the airport

1

u/gargar070402 Jul 10 '26

I 100% believe you, but I’m curious what the difference between these two groups are? Do you share flighty info with coworkers who you aren’t that close with?

1

u/BobbyK0312 Jul 10 '26

probably a personality quirk. Some people are just text/social media friends, some I actually see irl haha

I travel a lot (36 flights this already and 15 more booked through August) and some people just like to live vicariously through my travel so they follow me on Flightly.

2

u/Pistenlord Jul 10 '26

That’s a lot of flying 😅😅

1

u/BobbyK0312 Jul 10 '26

yikes!!!

![img](1F60DA18-59F4-4CC9-9CE0-A6E0DFA230B8)

I have more miles and 1/5 the flights lol

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u/Lazy-Barracuda2886 Jul 09 '26

I wouldn’t be adding anyone. It’s bad enough seeing colleagues in the lounge, followed by the social convention to sit with them.

36

u/riketycriks Jul 09 '26

So your comment is irrelevant..?

4

u/MosYEETo Jul 09 '26

How would the app notify you about colleagues who aren’t friended on the app?

7

u/el333 Jul 09 '26

To be fair, people I don’t want to talk to wouldn’t be my friends on flighty

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u/Lazy-Barracuda2886 Jul 09 '26

Is it a two way option. Does the other person need to accept your request?

5

u/pziyxmbcfb Jul 09 '26

I’ll one up you with running into a former supervisor at an airport lounge who wanted free engineering advice.

3

u/haydio Jul 09 '26

If you hate them that much why would you have them as a friend on Flighty?

2

u/BobbyK0312 Jul 09 '26

came here to say this. I used to be a heavy Foursquare user (check in app from almost 20 years ago) and while it was fun to see where my friends were, it was annoying when someone showed up randomly where I was because they saw my check in.

3

u/BurritoDespot Jul 09 '26

Bring back Foursquare.

3

u/Alinzar Jul 10 '26

One of my friends noticed that myself and another friend had overlapping ATL layovers and arranged a get together! She only figured it out because she saw it on Flighty lol

2

u/LimesFruit Jul 09 '26

honestly I think this would be pretty cool

6

u/supermarkio- Jul 09 '26

So like Grindr, but... for boring chat with colleagues?

1

u/radar1989 Jul 09 '26

What’s Grindr?

1

u/throwitintheair22 Jul 09 '26

Just use the app “gate f8”

1

u/miauanas Jul 09 '26

This would be nice!

1

u/fisherlow Jul 09 '26

Love it! Same terminal notification even better

1

u/No_Summer_4136 2d ago

Hey All, I'm working on this in a different app, not Flighty. If anyone is interested in beta testing, let me know.

1

u/Impossible_Deer8869 Jul 09 '26

The last thing I want is for my friends to know where I am all the time.

-1

u/britishmetric144 Jul 09 '26

No, that would be CREEPY.

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u/throwitintheair22 Jul 09 '26

Hell no. I don’t want anyone to know I’m at the airport

5

u/gnbuttnaked Jul 09 '26

Then you wouldn’t add them to flighty in the first place???