Requirements: 4.0.3 and up
Description:
✈ FlightHero is a flight-tracking app that provides a real time flight status information and helps you to know flight status, lets you to track a flight. Aware of the fact that is also shows a real time flight-board with arrivals and departures, airport traffic delays and a current airport weather in addition to a 15 day detailed weather forecast and synchronizes with your TripIt account (via In-App TripIt Sync AddOn).
Why we asking you to give a FligthHero special permissions?
– Identity: Used for implementing a user account functionality for saving your flight related data such as favorite flights, favorite accounts and your customized settings.
– Calendar: Used for synchronizing your upcoming fligths with a calendar of your choose so that you won't miss the flight (optional)
– Location: Used for determing nearest airports to you and planes nearby.
– Photos/Media/Files: Used for viewing your stored boarding passes in the app and for moving a FligthHero app to an SD card (optional)
– Camera: For making pictures of your boarding passes
– WiFi connection information: Used to understand whether your WiFi is ON or OFF
– Device and call information: Used for ability to send a text message with flight status
FlightHero has been positively mentioned by Forbes, WSJ, CNN.
These features let FlightHero to be one of the best travel apps:
✈ THE LARGEST COVERAGE FOR THE FLIGHTS, AIRPORTS AND AIRLINES
– 1550 airlines: commercial, cargo, charters
– 17000 airports around the world, including:
• USA (5639)
– Find closest airports to you within 140 miles (200 km)
✈ REAL TIME FLIGHT BOARD WITH ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
– Refreshes regualarly with the ability to cache data when there is no internet connection available
– Advances sorting order
– Advanced filters: airlines, statuses, arrival and departure information and time range for the most effective sky scanning
– 3 days (72 hours) time interval for arrivals and departures
✈ FLIGHT STATUS
– Actual position of the aircraft for the most accurate flight control. Use it as your personal virtual flight radar to know the aircraft speed, latitude, longitude and the altitude
✈ FLIGHT ALERTS via PUSH NOTIFICATIONS including:
– Status confirmation prior to departure
– Notification if the flight is delayed
– Notification if the flight is canceled or diverted
– Arrival notification when the flight lands
✈ AIRPORT WEATHER AND TRAFFIC DELAYS
– 15 day detailed weather forecast helps you stay dry when you grab your kayak for fishing on vacation
– Delay on a 5-point scale with the 0.25 step
– Actual Temperature
– Wind speed and direction
✈ SHARE INFORMATION ON FLIGHT STATUS
– SMS
– Email
– Twitter
– Facebook
✈ TERMINAL PLANS AND SEAT MAPS
– Download all at once from the "Additional Content". Available only for major terminals
✈ SEARCH
– By number
– By route
– Recently Used list
✈ FAVORITES
– Add Flights by swiping from the right to the left
– Add Airports
✈ TripIt SYNC
– Synchronization with your TripIt account (Available through In-App)
✈ SERVICES
– Browse hotels via Booking.com
– Car hire via RentalCars.com
– Integrated with Foursquare
– Radar shows nearest airports and flights
✈ MULTILINGUAL
– 29 Languages
✈ UNIVERSAL APP
– Single version for Android Phones and Tablets
