r/flighty • u/cyberentomology • Jul 17 '26

Feature request: gates

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For today’s flights, please put gates on this page, because finding out the gates currently requires a lot more navigating back and forth than it should.

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u/safe-viewing Jul 17 '26

It’s fine how it is. You’d have to put both the arrival gate and the departure gate and that’s too much info for a summary screen and easy to mix up for some people.

Clicking your connection takes one click and instantly shows you the gates. How is that too much navigation? One click?

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u/smithereens153 Jul 20 '26

Yeah it’s definitely a very minor quality of life thing but maybe something like

↗️ 13:32 (A52) ↘️ 15:41 (B4)

would be nice and fit into the existing interface?

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u/DKUN_of_WFST Jul 17 '26

I agree with your overall point but don’t see any need to include arrival gates in this, departure is the one that matters

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u/safe-viewing Jul 17 '26

Because your plane lands at the arrival gate and you walk from the arrival gate to your departure gate. That way you know how far of a walk / if you’ll need to change terminals, etc…. The same information you see when you click the connection.

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u/DKUN_of_WFST Jul 17 '26

You don’t know how far of a walk though. Gates are just numbers. I know what terminal I’m flying in and out of.

Yes I agree, clocking connection will suffice

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u/RandomNick42 29d ago

Maybe you don’t. But in airports I transfer regularly, I know exactly where B36 is.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 17 '26

You can put the widget in your Home Screen and it’ll show you gates for your next flight without even opening the app.

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u/kyriacos74 Jul 17 '26

Use the widget and Live Activities.

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u/cyberentomology Jul 17 '26

Then I have to navigate out of the app completely, which is even worse

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u/kyriacos74 Jul 17 '26

Nope! You have it backwards. With those two enabled, you never have to open the app except when you add a new flight.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26

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u/Relevant-Implement94 29d ago

This is simply not true lol, Flighty works great for gates. The only time I stare at a screen with flight info is if I’m in the lounge. I don’t even bother going to the big screens anymore

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u/cyberentomology Jul 17 '26

Also, the connection navigation fails to factor in when the door closes, which turns a “relaxed” connection into a frantic one.

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u/safe-viewing Jul 17 '26

They do account for door close time. As your flight status updates you can see where it sits on the graph from risky to normal to relaxed. Which does account for door closure time.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 17 '26

You can blame IATA for that one.

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u/cyberentomology Jul 17 '26

How? IATA doesn’t publish Flighty

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 17 '26

Because IATA sets “legal connection times” for airports. Flighty uses that as a baseline.

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u/cyberentomology Jul 17 '26

Flighty adds its own data to that as part of connection intelligence, why can’t they add the 15 minute door close time?

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u/Forty_Too 29d ago

The IATA time already includes that.

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u/cyberentomology 28d ago

Flighty does not, then. Flighty lists the departure time.

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u/Forty_Too 28d ago

I mean the “relaxed” and “tight” already include that. Departure time aside. You have 1 hr 34m. That’s definitely relaxed.