Best delayed or cancelled flight tracker app

The list of 4 apps that will facilitate your time of waiting at the airport during a flight delay, cancellation or denied boarding due to overbooking. Flight delays are especially often during the holiday season in the summertime.

FlightAware app

FlightAware app is helpful for real-time flight tracking, you may also customize your profile to receive flight status push alerts and notifications. There is also the possibility to check flight statuses by airline and airport. Air passengers using this app may find most flight delays or cancellations experiencing airports at the “misery map”.

When you have the possibility to choose the airports that you are going to travel through, you will minimize the chance of being hit by flight delays or cancellations, and especially when travelling with connecting flights – you will be able to lower your chance of missed connection.

Your airline’s app

Most airlines have their own apps (e.g. Ryanair, KLM, British Airways and others). The airline’s app will help you monitor your flight status. What is more, in the event of delayed or cancelled flight, you will be able to rebook another flight. Of course, the passenger has the choice to wait at the airline help desks at the airport to get rescheduled, but the faster way to rebook is through the app or by calling the airline’s customer service.

If you find out your flight is delayed while you are waiting at the gate, stay nearby in order to receive the newest information about your flight status as it might change quickly.

LoungeBuddy app

When your flight is delayed, cancelled or overbooked, LoungeBuddy can make your stay more bearable in a crowdy airport. All large airports have lounges, but most of them are only accessed with elite airline status or credit card benefits. LoungeBuddy has over 400 lounges accessible to app users in 68 countries around the world. 

Before making the decision of using the lounge service, make sure how long your flight delay might take as for flights in the EU, from the EU and to the EU, airlines must provide you with food and drinks if your delay is more than 2 hours depending on the flight distance.

AirHelp app

AirHelp flight delay app helps you to check if you may be entitled to receive compensation for a delayed or cancelled flight. All you have to do is fill in your flight details on the AirHelp website or mobile app. Flight compensation company AirHelp will help you file a claim.  You may also scan your boarding pass with this app and automatically upload all the necessary information to file a claim. Read AirHelp flight delay compensation app review.

Each air passenger may be eligible to up to 600 euro flight compensation if the flight was delayed for more than 3 hours. When the airline informs you about the cancelled flight less than 14 days before the departure, you may also receive flight compensation. The refund for the cancelled flight ticket is different from the compensation as compensation is for the inconveniences you might have due to flight cancellation. Under EU Regulation EC 261, air passenger has the right to receive compensation for denied boarding due to overbooking also.

Read: AirHelp reviews on our website.

Check: your delayed, cancelled or overbooked flight compensation with our Flight Delay Compensation Calculator online.