Is there a good app for track flight status and delays?
The right features exist but the execution is buggy, dated, or painful. Out-execute it.
73
Opportunity /100
81
Demand /100
71
Competition /100
90
Execution gap /100
7
Apps serving it
17
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to track flight status and delays, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| flight status info updated infrequently | reliability | 1 | Info updated infrequently... Hard to track status info |
| flight status not updating | bug | 1 | It doesn't update flights |
| cannot check flight status | bug | 1 | Can’t check flight status |
| flight status lookup broken | bug | 1 | Can no longer look up flight status. Just takes me to “book flight” page |
| slow flight updates | performance | 1 | incredibly slow to load flight updates |
| flight info updates slow or incorrect | reliability | 1 | sometimes it seems to take a long time and information is incorrect and confused |
| flight status navigation kicks back to start | ux | 1 | it kicks you back to beginning after clicking on a flight |
| flight tracker hard to find | ux | 1 | the Kayak App doesn't make accessing the flight tracker obvious. You have to click on your profile |
| repeated flight delays | reliability | 1 | Our flight was delayed twice so that we missed a day in Hawaii |
| flight status/boarding alerts wrong | reliability | 1 | when landed in Germany got an alert that my plane was boarding from my departing origin location |
| no flight time change notifications | missing-feature | 1 | Flight times can change without a notification |
| inaccurate flight update notifications | reliability | 1 | The text flight updates aren’t always correct... the only reliable way to get updates on your flights is the screens in the terminals |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 4.8★ | 1,138,355 | Free |
| Route: Package Tracker | 4.8★ | 512,207 | Free |
| United Airlines | 4.8★ | 8,032,430 | Free |
| Skyscanner Flights & Travel | 4.8★ | 492,539 | Free |
| Alaska Hawaiian | 4.8★ | 1,531,613 | Free |
| Waze Navigation & Live Traffic | 4.8★ | 3,170,280 | Free |
| Bleacher Report: Sports News | 4.6★ | 332,732 | Free |
Should you build it?
The right features exist but the execution is buggy, dated, or painful. Out-execute it. Opportunity here scores 73 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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