Unless you feel you need all your travel status information all in one application, I have found that there is no need to purchase an application. All of the status information is derived from government and airline web sites which can be accessed directly.
Out of the Washington, DC we use the predominant airlines United and USAir. They both have mobile sites which I use while traveling, but I have found that today most airlines have them, and some of them like British Airways have iPhone Apps.
- United mobile Web site: http://ua.flightlookup.com/
- USAir mobile Web site: http://mobile.usablenet.com/mt/www.usairways.com/awa/?un_jtt_redirect
If you use the main URLs you get directed to the main web sites which are somewhat unwieldy on a small screen like the iPhone and you do have Flash compatibility issues with most of these websites.
On the FAA status front, the easiest web site to use is the Air Traffic Control System Command Center text web page.
- ATCSCC text web page. http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/plaintext.html
The ATCSCC web site displays a national summary, you can select to view the status of a major airport by tapping the drop down list towards the bottom of the screen next to Select an Airport.
The last web site I use is flight stats; http://mobile.flightstats.com which provides with a myriad of information from TSA wait times to flight status by route.
FlightStats is one of the most informative all around air travel sites I have found.
Flightlookup never works well for me. I can never get it to load on my wannabe blackberry for some reason. Not sure whatsup with that.
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