'Flighty' provides faster notifications of operational disruptions and flight information at major airports than airlines.

When traveling by air, various problems can occur, from delays of a few minutes due to bad weather to cancellations due to aircraft scheduling issues. To plan for the best-case scenario, it's best to be aware of any problems as early as possible. The app ' Flighty ' allows you to check detailed arrival and departure flight information for each airport. In some cases, it can help you notice delays earlier than information provided by airlines or airports.

Flighty Airports Meltdown Map

The list has a dropdown menu where you can select a region.

I tried switching to the 'Asia' display.

Along with several major airports, icons in three colors—red, yellow, and green—are displayed.

Clicking on each airport will show you the percentage of delays and cancellations for arriving and departing flights, the current situation, local weather, and the number and nature of problems reported by route and airline.

Let's take Tokyo International Airport (HND) as an example. On this particular day, runway maintenance caused an average delay of 11 minutes for departing flights and 2 minutes for arriving flights. Based on information from within the last three hours, 96% of departing flights were on time, and 4% were delayed. For arriving flights, 79% were on time, 19% were delayed, and 2% were diverted (changed destination). If a flight or arrival is delayed by 15 minutes or more within the last three hours, it will be displayed in yellow on the map.

You can also check information for each recent flight.

The weather is rainy. And so far today, 847 planes have departed. Of these, 89% are on time, and 10% are delayed. There have also been diversions, but the number is small so the percentage is shown as 0%. The route with the most problems was Naha Airport (OKA), with 9 flights. The airlines with the most problems were Japan Airlines with 35 flights and All Nippon Airways with 31 flights, more than double the number of other airlines, which is likely due to the large number of flights they operate.

It was also shown that the 847 flights that have departed so far were operated by 44 airlines and headed to 102 airports in 25 countries. The most frequent destination was New Chitose Airport (Sapporo) with 160 flights, followed by Fukuoka Airport with 143 flights.

Flighty is known for providing flight and operational disruption information very quickly, and on Reddit, users have commented that it has been helpful, saying things like, ' 99% of the time, it was faster than the information I received from the airline, ' and ' I travel 4-5 times a year, and on multiple occasions, Flighty was faster than the information I got at the airport .'

The app version available on the App Store offers some flight history features for free. However, 'Flighty Pro,' which includes push notifications, live tracking, calendar synchronization, and weather radar, costs 800 yen per week, 1500 yen per month, or a one-time purchase of 50,000 yen.

Flighty – Live Flight Tracker App - App Store
https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/flighty-live-flight-tracker/id1358823008