Very sad news today that App in the Air is shutting down.
"It is with a heavy heart that we inform our community of aviation enthusiasts, frequent fliers and globe trotters that our journey together is coming to an end. Despite our best efforts to navigate the ever-changing and challenging business environment, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our services."
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Apple and Google's latest moves in travel perhaps the final straw?
They were acquired by private equity a few years ago, so perhaps they are shutting down because the growth model didn't meet their targets?
It's a great app for keeping track of your flights. Way WAAAY better than TripIt. The leaderboard is also fun. I'm a lifelong customer ๐ข
Someone should acquire them, cut server costs, and keep it running!
A little infrastructure refactoring can go a long way in terms of "runway". I'm sure the operational costs need to get a mention, but someone with a half bit of cop-on could keep things running long enough to ride out a trend change or wait for the next market opportunity.
Oh no, this is bad. Any good alternatives?
For iOS users, Tripsy
Unfortunately, I am on Android. ;)
There's "Flighty", but the app I use myself is "Mileways" (IOS) run by a determined and scrappy team out of Munich
For the flight diary aspect of App in the Air, you may want to try LogMy.World which even enables import of your data through a provided template.
Thanks, it looks good! Are you involved in this project?
thank you :) yes, as co-founder.
That is shame, a great app to track travels
I used to keep my old boarding cards, even if the thermal print eventually faded to nothing, it was nice to keep something of a "logbook" to mark the locations visited, however "everyday" or exciting the trip was. In an era where an airline (should/can) remote-expire a passbook boarding card, there's little to remember the trip by. Except for tools like this.
(there is of course the option of just-another-screenshot in your phone's album)
For anyone following along and looking for App In The Air (AITA) alternatives (besides TripIt which is ugly), here's what I've come up with.
I've been trying out byAir (Android and iOS): www.byairapp.com
For iOS users, there's a few more choices:
Tripsy: tripsy.app
Mileways: www.mileways.com
Flighty: flighty.com
Hey!
My team and I are building byAir, an app inspired by App in the Air and Flighty.
byairapp.com
You can import your App in the Air history to our app right now.
Our project is still in its early stages, and weโre eager to gather feedback. Weโre working hard to serve users who loved App in the Air and are now looking for a new place to land.
Feel free to reach out if you have any thoughts, comments, or feedback, or if you run into any issues.
Hi.
I just downloaded the app you made.
But the type of plane doesn't come out and I can't click on the entire information.
Do you have any update plans?
Hi!
Thanks for trying byAir!
Of course, we're working very hard on bring new features to our users.
Plenty of updates are coming this year โ calendar sync (for now it's only on iOS), import from email, Stats 2.0 and more...
To those still following along:
With only a few days left it seems inevitable that App In The Air will continue its demise. Perhaps the brand or the platform will resurface in the future, but the damage has been done already by announcing the closure. Any active user or subscriber (who has flown recently and needs to use it) will have moved to another alternative. It was amazing to see how quickly the flight-tracking community swooped in to build AITA importers (so clearly there's some value!).
From the accounts of most people we could speak to, the investors had decided to shut the business down.
We made some attempts to speak to the management and team, but got stonewalled by their CEO. In short, we were willing to bring the opportunity to our network (of potential buyers), but sadly didn't get enough information to make even an offer. Without being given even a clue of the revenues and expenses, we were asked to make a blind offer.
So either they had something to hide and were just stalling us, or they have a really bad CEO who doesn't care about the demise of his business and his tens of thousands of customers.
App In The Air was a great app that I really loved. But a friend pointed out that they hadn't innovated their product in some time, and I would have to agree. Perhaps the company stalled on growth and couldn't get enough revenue to keep the engines going. Perhaps they were really stupid at spending money.
I hope for the sake of the community of users in this space (who like to keep track of flights, and loathe TripIt) that App In The Air has a soft landing for everyone involved, and that one day we learn what happened so that others don't make the same mistakes.
Happy flying!
Sad seeing one of the biggest, and one of the first of this kind shutting down... they paved the road, and now, others have to follow what they started.