How to know the status of your flight?

by TM Maria Be a king in your own kingdom

To today to say that Google knows everything is a risky thing, but we only stayed ... half way? of what really happens.

With its diverse search tools and software platforms, this true "monster" of the technological industry covers the most varied aspects of our life, being able, for example, to find restaurants near where we are and see the comments that other diners have dedicated to the establishment to get an idea of whether we should eat there or not, until we find a hotel in the destination of our trips.

With the large volume of traffic that move air travel, it is not uncommon that Google has actively sought ways to get into the market for this type of information that have been exploiting various sites web over recent years.

To know the information about our flight, if it arrives on time or is suffering a delay, we will only need to know your flight number and enter it directly in the search engine.

This code consists of two or three letters that indicate the company followed by between two and four numbers. Where do we find it? In our ticket, in the reservation document ... this is the same code by which we must find our flight in the information panels of the airport, which will allow us to recognize our airplane in the public address announcements, and that will identify the door by which we will have to embark.

For example, let's imagine that we fly from Buenos Aires to Barcelona on flight ARG1161 of the Aerolineas Argentines Company. To know the flight data thanks to Google, we only have to enter the flight number ARG1161 and press the return key or the search button.

What information does this service present on screen? Well apart from the most obvious as the departure time and the arrival time, it does it in each one of them at the time of the respective airport, it indicates quickly and at a glance if it arrives on time or not, and how much it needs to reach destination.

Even, and at the moment in which this information is available, it indicates to us the terminal and door through which the passengers will leave.

Some tips on the functionality of knowing the status of a flight

We must be aware that, even if the information functionalities are automated, it is more than likely that at some point the flight information has passed through human hands, and this means that there may be an error or it may not have been updated in time. So, I recommend taking this functionality of Google as a source to know the status of our flight, but not the only one.

Let us know how to combine the information that Google gives us with other sources, such as the onsite information that they offer us from the same airport, as well as other websites such as flightradar24.

This functionality of Google is not only useful for those who have to take a flight, but also for those waiting at the airport for the arrival of family and friends, as it is even possible that the information (such as possible delays suffered) arrive before through the computer platform that is not shown through the airport screens.