Best Air Travel iPad Apps
Best Air Travel iPad Apps
Kayak iPad App
Air Travel needs to start with actually finding your flight, you should do that even before you start packing your suitcase. Anyway, a great app to help you to find the best flight is brought to you by Kayak. This brilliant website has perfected the art of streamline searching and helps you to sort out potential flights by price, airline or time, then, just one click later you can be on the booking site for your chosen journey. The Kayak iPad App is free to download, so make sure you get it before you book your next trip.
TripIt iPad App
Once you’ve booked your flight then it’s really useful if you can track your itinerary. Yuk, if you thought you’d need to print out pages and pages of confirmations and booking codes then think again. That’s so last year! The TripIt Travel App gives you flight numbers, makes sure you know which gate you have to be at and loyalty account numbers all from e-mail receipts which you can simply forward. You’ll have your very own master itinerary for your trip which can be accessed from anywhere. The TripIt App is also free. Wow, this just gets better and better.
Yes, the TripIt App is available for iPhones too!
GateGuru iPad App
Delays are rarely fun are they, but with the brilliant GateGuru iPad App at least you’ll have lots of information available for you, wherever you find yourself waiting. The fully searchable directory has info about 124 airports and can help you to quickly locate an ATM, a quick sandwich or something as simple as a great cup of coffee. Available for free download some of these locations even have photos and user reviews. It’s amazing how many people get delayed these days, but with GateGuru it doesn’t have to be the end of the world.
FlightTrack Pro iPad App
Are you the kind of traveler who needs to get to places fast and often? Then this FlightTrack Pro travel app should be right up your street. It not only stores and tracks all of your flights, but also lets you know about vital changes to your travel itinerary like gate changes and delays, pulling in the info from 1400 airlines and 5,000 different airports. Been delayed but need to be somewhere like NOW, well, it’s easy to search for different connections to make a few last minute changes to your travel itinerary, whether you’re waiting for the gate agent in the airport or are cruising at 30,000 feet (the route maps are available offline so that you can check it out in the air).
Flight Control HD iPad App
Does your mind start to wander sometimes, particularly whilst you’re 30,000 feet up in the air . . . do the “what if’s” start to creep in and make you nervous. Well, here’s the perfect way to distract you whilst you’re on your next long haul flight (or even short haul for that matter). Flight Control HD puts you in control of air traffic control strategy and you have to manage flight patterns . . . don’t panic if you make a hash of it, the real air traffic controlers have had plenty of training and practice.