FlightStats 4+

Great source of Info. I’m here at LAX and I was so happy that FlightStats had more accurate info than the airport displays that I thought i’d write a review. In this case, they had the right gate info and saved me a long walk. (The display still doesn’t have the right info) And it predicted a delayed flight before it was announced. So while everyone was hanging around the gate, I had enough time to grab a bottle of water without feeling rushed. As I fly a lot, this app is my go to source but today was particularly notable.

1) love the app UX
2) hate being tracked for marketing / other reasons

I opened the app for first time since Apple updated their new privacy rules. App asked if they could track. I asked app not to track.

Next was presented with a page stating they use advertisements to keep app free and to accept or ‘not now’. Click not now

**what happened following left a bad taste**

Proceeded to take me to a further page we’re I need to accept the tracking ( all selected ‘share’ by default). I have ability to deselect all, but it’s cumbersome and confusing. Additionally when you into enough screens you have only ‘Accept’ to get out. Otherwise you have to hard kill the app to not be forced to accept.

The number of companies that the show as partners appears to be over 400, I lost count halfway through and many of these partners are all over the globe. It was difficult where these partners came from. Was not able to see if it was OneTrust or if it was Cirium/LexisNexis

I wanted to see if I could change settings. As a test I selected 1 partner to permit tracking with and entered the app. I was able to make changes to cookies, however the list of partners was randomized and seeing one or two while scrolling was difficult without knowing what the name of the ad partner was.

3. Will delete FlightStats and find a different app

I have been using FlyStat for several years now and it has been very good for the most part
I import highly perishable goods using airlines, with shipments from all over the world and I have to be able to see and know exactly where my cargo is at all times.
I do like that it remembers my airline and flight numbers as They are the same most of the time from our regular suppliers making it much easier to look for the arrival time.
The reason why I gave them 4 instead of 5 is because I have on a few occasions had incorrect information about the flights arrival time however it is usually the problem is brief and I do report it to them.
For the most part I truly like the app and it is my first go to for fight information and I recommend it all the time to others