On The Fly Airline Schedules
(June 13, 2003)
When you spend a lot of time at the airport it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with changing flight schedules. Airlines continually fine tune their product to meet market demand which means flights are often added, cancelled, and condensed from week to week. Therefore, it's easy for current airline timetables to become quickly outdated.
Thankfully, many U.S. carriers have solved this problem by turning their flight schedules into downloadable timetables that load into your Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) such as Palm Pilot®, HandSpring®, Sony, Wireless Application Protocol-enabled cell phones (WAP), PocketPC, and personal computers. These nifty programs provide travelers with up-to-date information for any given flight, including the flight number, arrival and departure times, aircraft type, number of stops and frequency. Most timetables are updated as your synchronize your device; ensuring fliers have the most current information. Listed below are airlines that offer downloadable timetables; most offer applications for both Windows and Mac operating systems:
- AirTran
Offers downloadable timetables for PDA or PocketPC handhelds.
- Alaska Airlines
Offers electronic flight schedules for personal computer, PDA, PocketPC or WAP phone.
- American Airlines
Offers electronic flight schedules for personal computer, PDA, and PocketPC. Flight
schedules include American Airlines, American Eagle and all codeshare partners along with the oneworld alliance schedules. You can register to receive a monthly email reminder to keep your timetable current.
- America West
Offers downloadable timetables for Palm OS PDAs (Palm, HandSpring and Sony).
- Continental Airlines
Offers electronic flight schedules for Palm OS PDAs. You can register to receive a monthly email reminder to keep your timetable current.
- Delta Air Lines
Offers electronic flight schedules for personal computer, PDA, and PocketPC.
- JetBlue
Offers electronic flight schedules for PDAs and PocketPC.
- Hawaiian Airlines
Offers electronic flight schedules for Palm OS PDAs.
- Midwest Airlines (Midwest Express)
Offers electronic flight schedules for personal computer, PDA, and PocketPC.
- Northwest Airlines
Offers electronic flight schedules for personal computer, PDA, PocketPC or WAP phone.
- United Airlines
Offers electronic flight schedules for personal computer, PDA, and PocketPC.
- US Airways
Offers electronic flight schedules for personal computer, PDA, and PocketPC.
- Star Alliance
Offers electronic flight schedules for personal computer, PDA, and PocketPC. Provides flight details for a number of airlines, encompassing 729 airports in 124 countries being served by almost 11,000 daily flights. Flight schedules include Air Canada, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines, bmi, Lauda Air, Lufthansa, Mexicana, SAS Scandinavian Airlines System, Singapore Airlines, Spanair, Thai Airways International, Tyrolean Airways, United Airlines, Varig, and US Airways in late 2003.
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