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FlightCaster Is My New Best Friend August 19th, 2009
I like to travel, and unfortunately that means extensive amounts of time in airports, on tarmacs, and strapped in next to the smelly guy in airplanes. FlightCaster is out to make some of that a little more livable. The service, which predicts if and when a flight will be delayed, and gives percentage guesstimates, can be quite a boon. Why worry when you are running late to the airport when the flight is 99% delayed at least 30 minutes? You’ve got the time to get through security, and get a mocha. Airport nirvana.
The service pulls in extensive data to reach its conclusions. According to the website, the information comes from the following:
- In-bound aircraft tracking
- Weather forecasts
- FAA monitoring
- 10 years of flight history
I am not sure where they managed to get 10 years of flight history, it seems like the government would be mum on such information due to trumped up terrorism fears, but they have it. And from the demo screenshot (I am sadly not travelling for another three weeks, so have yet to run it live), it takes all four inputs and spits them out in a simple to understand page. Look at this and claim to be confused, I dare you:
Happily, they even have an iPhone application to go with the website. No words on monetization yet, but I could see them licensing the product to every single Fortune 500 company in existence. Any company with travelling team members, that is, every company, is going to love this product. I’ll post more information after I get to use it live, but until then, I will drool contentedly over the above screenshot.
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