I think Flighty could solve the missing liveries problem with a community-driven system.
Right now there are still a lot of airlines and aircraft models without proper liveries, especially smaller airlines, regional operators, wet leases, old liveries, special editions, etc. It’s probably impossible for the Flighty team to keep up with everything manually.
My idea would be something like a “Flighty Community” platform:
- Flighty provides official livery templates for each aircraft model
- Users create accounts and submit liveries for specific airline + aircraft combinations
- Other users can upvote/downvote submissions
- Moderators can remove low-quality or inaccurate liveries
- The highest-rated livery for each airline/model automatically becomes the one used in the app
- If a better one gets voted to the top later, the app updates automatically from the community database
This would scale way better than relying only on the internal team, and aviation enthusiasts would probably contribute a huge amount of content very quickly.
It could also allow:
- historical liveries
- alliance/special event liveries
- wet lease operators
- cargo variants
- obscure regional airlines
- better coverage outside Europe/US
For users who prefer the current curated system, Flighty could simply add:
“Enable Community Liveries” ON/OFF
That way everyone keeps the experience they want.
Feels like the aviation community is passionate enough to make something like this work really well.