FlightCaster – Predicting Flight Delays
It’s the night before that big trip to visit relatives, an important meeting abroad or just before you go on holiday. You’re all packed, the taxi is ordered for early the next morning and you’re determined that you will not be late for the airport. All the while you wonder ‘Will the plane be late?’
Most likely. How late? Well nobody really knows. I’m pretty sure that pilots have a conspiracy going to make us all late. They have 500mph on the throttle yet your cruising speed always seems to be 340mph. FlightCaster.com is a new start-up site that aims to predict how late your flight will be; if at all.
There have been services like this before but the difference with FlightCaster is that they don’t just rely on what the airlines say. They take into account numerous other factors such as the weather reports and the average on time rate of that airline and the particular route. Its also dead easy to use. All they need is a piece of flight info such as a flight number and it’ll tell you all you want (or don’t want) to know.
This is a cool little web app that will come in handy. Or it could just make you more depressed as you use an internet terminal at the airport. All the same, I really hope that they release an app for mobile phones for the business people who travel every week. This one deserves to succeed.
