What Frequent Flyer or “aviation geek” has never dreamed of keeping a list of all his flights in one place for his personal archives or even to have fun with his statistics? In fact it is a question we often hear around us: “how do I get my “flight log”, to keep track of all my flights? The answer is called Flightdiary.
[Update] Flightdiary has been acquired by Flight Radar and is now called myFlightRadar24.
The Travelguys asked themselves the same question in their time, of course. We scoured the web, assisted by our friend Google, being convinced by the number of Avgeeks that there would be a plethora of apps for that and that the hardest thing would be to choose the right one. In fact there were only two services that met this need. One so unusable that we forgot its name and the second is Flightdiary.
Once you arrive on the home page, you don’t need to create an account, you can connect directly with your Facebook account.
We agree, the interface is rather “web 1.0” but the service has the merit to exist and the fact to have seen some improvements in the last weeks shows that the service is still alive and continues to be developed.
Once logged in, you will be taken to your profile page.
It shows the map of your flights and your “statistics”.
By scrolling down you will get more detailed figures on the airports and airlines you fly the most, your longest journeys, the days and months you fly the most etc.
It is very easy to log a flight. Just click on the corresponding button and you will be asked for the dates and flight number.
By magic, the application finds all the information related to your flight, including the aircraft registration number. It was a feature that was available more than a year ago (except for registration retrieval), which had disappeared and came back better developed in a recent update. Very appreciable, infinitely more practical than having to enter everything manually.
All you have to do is enter your seat number and a couple of things and your flight is logged.
Last step, you are asked to note your flight but you can skip this part. Personally I prefer to note my flights on the excellentFlight-report and I hate doing things twice. I don’t see Flightdiary positioning itself as a credible notation site today but…you never know one day.
And your flight will join the list of your flights.
Now all you have to do is keep your flight list up to date.
So of course everything is not perfect. The interface can be improved, but at least the tool does what is expected of it.
Then you will rarely be able to get hold of all your past flight history. I’ve been pretty much up to date since 2009 but I’ve lost track of what’s going on before that. Maybe Flying Blue will be able to pull up my Air France history, but for all the flights I’ve made since the mid-90s on various airlines, it’s lost. I lost a lot of destinations.
Finally, I think that there is a way to propose even more interesting statistics given the available data (at least the device I took the most often…but there are plenty of finer and very relevant things to put in place.
In the meantime Flightdiary is the only service that allows you to keep a clean history of your flights…and that’s something.
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