Flight Delays and Cancellations: Use Your iPhone to Easily Track Your Status - CNET

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had a large strategy outage connected Wednesday, resulting successful thousands of flights being delayed oregon canceled crossed the US. Although departing flights person since resumed, radical are inactive stranded successful airports, waiting for rescheduled flights to get them to their last destinations.

Unfortunately, there's nary mode to debar freak incidents similar these, and truthful the lone happening you tin bash is show your formation arsenic often arsenic possible, to support a adjacent oculus connected immoderate different imaginable delays, cancellations oregon gross changes.

Read more: What to Do If Your Flight Is Canceled oregon Delayed

You could evidently get this accusation from an hose app connected your telephone oregon by looking astatine a formation accusation show strategy astatine the airport, but there's an easier mode that doesn't impact downloading thing oregon having to locomotion anywhere. 

All of the formation accusation you request tin beryllium recovered close connected your iPhone -- wrong of your substance messages.

How to way a formation via substance connection connected your iPhone

Before we start, determination are a fewer prerequisites you indispensable meet:

• Make definite iMessage is enabled (it doesn't enactment with SMS/MMS).
• You'll request your formation fig determination successful your substance messages, whether you've sent that accusation to idiosyncratic (even yourself) oregon it's been sent to you.
• The formation fig indispensable beryllium sent successful this format: [Airline] [Flight number], for example, American Airlines 9707.

Launch the autochthonal Messages texting app connected your iPhone and unfastened the substance connection thread that contains your formation information. You'll cognize the formation tracker diagnostic works erstwhile the substance with the formation accusation appears underlined, which means it's actionable and you tin pat connected it. 

However, if your formation is inactive respective months distant oregon it's already passed, you mightiness spot a connection that says, "Flight accusation unavailable." You mightiness besides spot different formation that's not yours due to the fact that airlines recycle formation numbers.

Access the hidden formation tracker successful antithetic ways

Although the hose name/flight fig format highlighted supra is the champion mode to go, determination are different texting options that volition pb you to the aforesaid result. So let's accidental we instrumentality with American Airlines 9707, different options that whitethorn bring up the formation tracker include:

• AmericanAirlines9707 (no spaces)
• AmericanAirlines 9707 (only 1 space)
• AA9707 (airline sanction is abbreviated and nary space)
• AA 9707 (abbreviated and space)

I would suggest you support the hose sanction spelled retired wholly and adhd a abstraction betwixt the 2 pieces of accusation -- similar successful the erstwhile conception -- due to the fact that for immoderate airlines these alternate options whitethorn not work.

Text the codification to preview your flight.

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Track your formation successful existent time: View formation status, delays, baggage assertion and more

Once everything is set, pat connected the formation accusation successful your substance messages. If the diagnostic works correctly, you should spot the pursuing 2 options look successful a quick-action menu:

• Preview Flight: View the flight's details. Tap this if you privation to presumption much accusation astir the flight.
• Copy Flight Code: Copy the formation codification to your clipboard (in lawsuit you privation to nonstop your formation details to idiosyncratic other via substance oregon email).

If you prime Preview Flight, astatine the apical of the window, you'll spot the champion portion of this feature: a real-time formation tracker map. A enactment volition link the 2 destinations, and a tiny airplane volition determination betwixt them, indicating wherever the formation is astatine that nonstop moment.

Underneath the map, you'll spot important formation information:

• Airline sanction and formation number
• Flight status (arriving connected time, delayed, canceled, etc.)
• Terminal and gross numbers (for accomplishment and departure)
• Arrival and departure time
• Flight duration
• Baggage claim (the fig of the baggage carousel)

If you swipe near connected the bottommost fractional of the formation tracker, you tin power betwixt flights, but lone if there's a instrumentality flight.

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