Slow & awkward

To begin the application is a little awkward. Once you select an airport, you filter the list of flights further using multiple criteria. I began by typing the name of my airline (in this case US AIrlines) and waited for my flight to show up in the list. It never showed and I was left wondering why. The refresh was very slow, so at first I wasnt sure if my listing was not going to come up or if it was simply in the queue and waiting for the refresh to complete. After I was certain that the app was displaying all flights that it could find, I wondered why my flight wasnt there. Then I noticed a small pull-down menu button at the bottom of the window. It contained a list of time frames. Turns out you have to select a time frame. After I selected the right time frame, and a little more waiting for the list to refresh, my flight showed up.

The app displays good throough information about a flight, but its a little slow and awkward. Another minor annoyance is that if you have a trip that includes multiple flight segments, you might want to view them all together or at least have them show up in a list all at once so you can click through them to see if gates are close together, etc. But you cant really do that. You have to start over and filter the list (pick the airport, pick the timeframe, pick the airline) and all the while completely overwrite the display. Which means you have to write down the details of each segment because theres no way to view them on the screen together.

The app works. But it could be much better. All and in all Id say stick with a free flight tracker until this one gets a little better.

Frosty Chicken about Arrivals & Departures