The clever trick to predict if your flight will be delayed
Rocking up to an airport only to find your flight has been delayed by up to four hours, is about as much fun as having your baggage rerouted to the wrong hemisphere.
While for the most part, flight delays are a relatively fickle phenomenon, there’s a clever way to figure out if this unsightly fate is going to befall you, ahead of time.
Thanks to a useful website called Flight Aware, you can get up to date information regarding the status of your flight and whether it’s going to be at the gate when you are.
Dan Miller, the man behind the popular travel blog Boarding Area, explains how this website can be an absolute godsend for travellers stuck heading to busy terminals.
“The #1 trick I use to tell if my flight is going to be delayed is checking where your inbound aircraft is. I use Flightaware.com for this (not an affiliate link),” Dan writes.
“Just pull up your flight, and click on the ‘Where is my aircraft now’ link at the top.
“The part that irritates me the most is that most airlines do not actually put any delay notice up until well past the time that it is obvious to just about everyone that the flight is going to be delayed. Put another way, airlines seem to cling to the belief that just possibly, everything will go right, time will stand still, and they still might put this flight out on time until the absolute last possible second.”
So there you have it, that’s how you figure out whether your flight will be delayed! Do you think you will give this advice a try? Let us know in the comments section!