12-21-2004, 06:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Flight Finding Made Easy
"When you're travelling on important business, don't get caught without a full range of flight schedules available at your fingertips. OAG's new Flight-Finder software for PDA enables you to download ALL flights within your chosen geographical region. Or, if you prefer, download all flights within that region as well as to/from the rest of the world."
OAG have just released Flight-Finder - a portable solution for downloading the latest flight schedules no matter which area of the world you live in. It allows you to check last-minute flight details, look up alternate flights, as well as gain access to airline reservation numbers. Like most software products, there is a trial version available. You can learn a little more about the product here.
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12-21-2004, 06:03 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
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That would be good for someone who travels a lot. Unfortunately, that isn't me... :cry: :wink:
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12-21-2004, 06:11 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I do travel a lot, but 99 pounds is just too much money for me... 
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12-21-2004, 06:20 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) offers a free flight schedule program, available for Desktop [Windows] and Pocket PC [ARM/X-Scale] [SH3] [MIPS] (and Palm, but I'm too lazy to link to that.  ). The flight schedules for CMH are also available online I'm not sure if other airports offer similar programs, but for free, that's quite a service. Not quite as nice of a UI as OAG Flight-Finder, but hey, it's free.
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12-21-2004, 06:45 AM
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Intellectual
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Also, don't most of the airlines have an online listing for the status of their own flights? So if you're traveling out yourself, or picking someone up at the airport, I'm guessing that you could simply log onto that airlines website and get the needed information.
TMann
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12-21-2004, 06:50 AM
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Mystic
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Originally Posted by TMann
Also, don't most of the airlines have an online listing for the status of their own flights? So if you're traveling out yourself, or picking someone up at the airport, I'm guessing that you could simply log onto that airlines website and get the needed information.
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Yeah, but those sites don't always display correctly on a Pocket PC, so a nice program UI is sometimes worth the price.
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12-21-2004, 07:04 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
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Originally Posted by TMann
Also, don't most of the airlines have an online listing for the status of their own flights? So if you're traveling out yourself, or picking someone up at the airport, I'm guessing that you could simply log onto that airlines website and get the needed information.
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It could be useful if you're on a multi-leg journey and you're on a layover when they tell you your next flight is cancelled. Sometimes they do a good job of finding a way to get you where you need to go, but other times they might say "too bad, the next flight is in 6 hours" when in fact there's a flight on another airline in one hour that they *could* book you on. So if you can store that info on your PDA for the days that you're traveling, you have a better shot at forcing the issue.
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12-21-2004, 07:57 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Glad I travel on Continental 99% of the time. Nice, PPC friendly website and it's free :lol:[url=http://pda.continental.com/PocketPC/]
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12-21-2004, 05:32 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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The price is definitely out of whack. You can get access to the same schedules via World Mate Pro for a $69.95 annual subscription. All of the major US airlines also offer Pocket PC Friendly flight schedule downloads for free. However, the only one I've managed to get working on my PDA2K is the American Airlines one. I get errors for both the United Star Alliance, and the NWA "Sky Team" software. I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot, but I'm thinking they should work....
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12-21-2004, 05:59 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Just to give an update on my previous post. It seems the 3 "major" airline alliances from American, United, and Delta-NWA all use the same program and database for their free PocketPC schedules. I can only access the most recent one on installed on my device. I tried installing one to Flash storage, and the second to a memory card, but still only the last installed worked.
Has anyone managed to get more than one of these installed and working on their device? I hate having to pay a premium for information that is freely available from the source, but that may be the price of convenience.
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