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The real-time tactical information about delays and inbound aircraft is so good that it is very heavily used by airline employees since even the airlines are not great about providing this data in a timely fashion to their front line employees. The dashboard is really nice and if it remained free I c", "context": "", "use_case": "Personal flight tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flighty Airports"}, {"id": 760188688, "item_id": 47511793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511793", "by": "chiefgeek", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Flighty is a great app. I travel a lot and use it all the time to manage my flights. Highly recommend.", "excerpt": "Flighty is a great app. I travel a lot and use it all the time to manage my flights. 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I used it in free mode when I was on iOS, but it would be ~\u00a310 per trip for something that would improve my life less than a coffee at the airport. In my opinion they need to aggressively cut costly features (like weather data), and if they have different international data feeds, perhaps d", "context": "rare/leisure traveller", "use_case": "Flight tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flighty Airports"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["flight tracking", "flight tracking widgets", "personal flight tracking"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511589", "title": "Flighty Airports", "mentions": 7}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680974", "title": "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491", "title": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? 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The reason I love Flighty vs FlightAware or Flightradar24 is because the app is solely focused on my flights. The real-time tactical information about delays and inbound aircraft is so good that it is very heavily used by airline employees since even the airlines are not great about providing this data in a timely fashion to their front line employees. The dashboard is really nice and if it remained free I c", "context": "", "use_case": "Personal flight tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flighty Airports"}, {"id": 760198432, "item_id": 47512402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512402", "by": "danpalmer", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Flighty nowhere near reasonably priced for that market.", "excerpt": "Flighty is in a weird place because I'm a rare/leisure traveller and wow Flighty nowhere near reasonably priced for that market. I used it in free mode when I was on iOS, but it would be ~\u00a310 per trip for something that would improve my life less than a coffee at the airport. In my opinion they need to aggressively cut costly features (like weather data), and if they have different international data feeds, perhaps d", "context": "rare/leisure traveller", "use_case": "Flight tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flighty Airports"}, {"id": 760188688, "item_id": 47511793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511793", "by": "chiefgeek", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Flighty is a great app. I travel a lot and use it all the time to manage my flights. Highly recommend.", "excerpt": "Flighty is a great app. I travel a lot and use it all the time to manage my flights. Highly recommend.", "context": "", "use_case": "flight tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flighty Airports"}, {"id": 746973186, "item_id": 46685824, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685824", "by": "rgovostes", "date": "2026-01-19", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "A few other apps that are only occasionally used support short-term paid activations, like Flighty and Oceanic+", "excerpt": "I have a few app subscriptions that are under $5/yr, like Parcel, and always purchase the latest release of Acorn for around $20/yr. I use those apps frequently and hope those rates are supporting the independent developers who make them. I would gladly pay more for tools I use to make a living. A few other apps that are only occasionally used support short-term paid activations, like Flighty and Oceanic+. 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