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by DownWithPopUpAds

This app has been having more and more issues as time goes on.

So many times I have flights saying they landed, and their landing time is five+ minutes in the future! I also regularly get notifications that a flight has landed, and then when I open the notification, I have to refresh it multiple times and wait for it to actually update with that information. This often takes up to five minutes. As someone whose job involves meeting flights as they arrive, it decreases the value of this app immensely for me.

But on a more practical note, the pop up ads they suddenly decided to put on the app make it unbearable. It makes the app lag, makes it harder for me to just take what should be 5 seconds to check the flight into a whole ordeal. ESPECIALLY because the ads have the worlds tiniest Xs for closing them and I frequently accidentally open them. The other stuff I could deal with, but not this. The instant I can find another app that has flight tracking like this one does, I'm deleting this one. It’s not worth the frustration.

by Jyh_

I cannot comment on the usefulness of this app for US domestic flights, only for international flights between USA, Europe, and Asia. My point of comparison is the now-defunct Flight Track Pro (thank you so bloody much, Expedia!), an app in every aspect vastly superior to FlightView.

In FlightView:
1) Typically, boarding gate info is not available outside of the USA (I am not talking of minor regional airports here but of Paris CdG, London, Hong Kong, Bangkok, etc.).
2) The app does not even compute and display the duration of stopovers between flights of a same "trip".
3) The date and time of departure of the flight are not even displayed in the iOS Widgets view. What good is it to me to know that my flight is "scheduled" if I am not reminded of the departure time?
4) Boarding annoucements are not displayed by the app.
5) Similarly, the app does not inform of flight delays in a timely fashion.
6) In fact, I often see that my flight is not yet reported as having departed by the time I land at my destination, a few hours later.
Some people may consider it bad form to be so critical of a free app. I would gladly pay for an app that addresses the issues above, but the "Elite" version of this app only seems to add stuff of no use/interest to me.

As it is, FlightView is barely usable for international travel.

by Duftyr

I’m not sure what’s going on with this app. It has been my reliable go-to for tracking multiple flights when family gets together. Twice this weekend, however, it has posted a false status for my flight.

Two days ago we circled Chicago rather than landing, but this app showed us as “landed” even though we were still over Lake Michigan. We actually landed 30 min after the app said we did.

Currently, our flight is delayed. There is no airplane even at our gate. 10 min ago, however, this app notified me that my flight had departed. The skies apparently are perfect through the rose-colored glasses of this tracker. Of course, if they were, we wouldn’t need a tracker app. And I may be in the market for a more accurate one.