FlyersRights.org Flight Data iPhone App

May 5, 2010 on 6:41 am | In Airlines, California, Chicago, East Coast, Florida, Great Lakes, Hawaiian Islands, Los Angeles, Miami, New England, New York City, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco, The South, USA | Comments Off


Shop with your points and miles at Points.com FlyersRights.org has launched a new application that will provide real-time data on the status of their flights via GPS. Kate Hanni, executive director of FlyersRights.org, announced the new application and also expressed concern over the impact of a proposed ban on cellular communications and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in the House version of the pending Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization legislation that could curtail the rights of passengers to use new technologies while on board commercial aircraft.

Hanni said passengers in the U.S. should be allowed to avail themselves of in-flight connectivity and technology to capture, record and transmit information vital to the enforcement of their new rights.

With the new application, available on FlyersRights.org website, the GPS component of the iPhone will be able to pinpoint a passenger’s location and the passenger will confirm location.

The passenger will be able to input their airline and flight information into a centralized database and update their status in terms of delays or cancellations while in flight. Passengers will also be able to take photos, video and audio recordings and attach them to the record in real time.

The House of Representatives version of the FAA bill, passed last year, contains language that would ban the usage of cellular communications and VoIP on commercial aircraft in U.S. airspace.

The recently passed Senate version of the FAA legislation contains no ban. Currently, 20 international air carriers, flying to 72 nations around the world are equipped with in-flight cellular service — with over 2.3 million passengers a month flying on aircraft with the service.

For more information, visit

www.flyersrights.org

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