Flightcaster: Find Out If Your Friends USA Domestic Flight in Real Time
I’ve got family that commute to work abroad, and there’s nothing more boring than cutting laps around the block or sitting in the short term parking waiting for them to show up only to find out that their flight has been delayed 2 hours, and you could have been at home watching videos on Crunchyroll.
Flightcaster.com has recently received $1.3 million dollars to help them develop and market a piece of software that will help avoid this situation: their service (currently only available on US domestic flights) runs a consistently (90% so far) accurate, real-time update on how late any given flight will be on arrival. Departures are harder to predict, due to the greater number of variables – did the luggage guys go on a smoke break, did Mr. Johnson in 26F check in online and then miss his ride to the airport, did a gentleman in a Djellaba walk past the terminal building, that kind of thing – but once an airplane is on the departure runway, Flightcaster uses data from:
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center
- FlightStats
- National Weather Service
to predict and monitor flight progress, meaning that you’ll never have to orbit the arrivals terminal again. You can also download their software as an iPhone or Blackberry app, so you can (pull over and) check the flight on your way to the airport.
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