So ever since I got into travel hacking a year or two ago, we have done a TON more traveling than we had done since we’ve been married. In the past year, we have gone:
- Getaway trip to Miami
- Family Vacation to Reno
- Washington DC for the Family Travel for Real Life conference
- Atlanta for a family wedding
This is compared to maybe 2 or 3 flights total in the first 15 years we were married.
So now that I’m traveling a lot more, I want to start keeping track of the flights, airlines, airports and such that I’ve been to. Kind of similar to tracking the counties I’ve visited!
JetLovers
I saw a tweet from Point Princess about Jet Lovers the other day
My flight #104 on @JetLovers: BOS > ORD – another 864 miles in the air! http://t.co/4i9MhKUbfK pic.twitter.com/dYikP8VLkN
— Point Princess (@point_princess) September 7, 2014
One of the features of JetLovers is that it automatically updates your map based on your social media check-ins. I don’t know if you can manually enter in flights or not, but if not, that would be a deal breaker for me. I do like the maps that it produces
Flight Memory
Flight Memory is another site that tracks the flights that you’ve taken. This is more manual, which can either be a good thing or bad thing. Here’s an example of the map that is generated from Miles, Points and Mai Tais.
Flight Diary
Flight Diary is another option. With Flight Diary you get a personal profile with a map and detailed statistics about your flights with graphs on CO2 emissions, top airports, airlines, etc.
OpenFlights
Open Flights is more of an open-source site as far as I can tell. The user interface is pretty basic
One advantage of Open Flights is that is somewhat of a standard for storing the information – most of the other sites will export or let you import from the OpenFlights data format
Other sites
A few other sites that I came across include
- Pitot, which is $4.95 / mo and thus “way” more than I want to pay for it.
- BA97.com is another site that uses maps from GCmap.
Any other ones? What do you use and what would you recommend?
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Thanks, that’s what I need. I can know the distance for BA redeem
Thank you, just signed up for FlightDiary and I love it. The dashboard and the different ways they slice the data are very cool. It stinks that I have to manually enter my previous flight data, but love that it integrates with TripIt so the future flight data will come over!
Glad you like it. I’m hoping to see some other opinions to figure out which site to start using. I don’t have a ton of flights to enter but I’d like to make sure I pick a good site before I start entering them in!
You should have a look at log my flight, a new flight logger with lots of different charts and maps and a great design. Here is a preview of the kinf of stats you could get : http://www.logmyflight.net/preview.php
I was googling this topic, and your article is still one of the only ones! Which one did you settle on?
I’m currently using openflights.org, but I’d be open to another one. The thing I like about open flights is that your data is easily accessible and exportable, as opposed to some of the other sites where your data is harder to get out (if you wanted to)
This is an old thread, but this overview is a good one, as TravellerAtoZ points out.
I suppose users will fall into two groups, which can overlap:
1. Those, extrapolating on weever’s comment, wanting to validate or estimate what a given distance is for mileage/point accrual. Some airlines’ booking sites already give that number and challenging them on whether it’s 1,000 or 1,001 miles will be a lot of effort. My main programme (SAS EuroBonus) runs by geographic zones, so I don’t have to bother. But I respect this could have it’s use, or;
2. Those of the nerdier (positively meant) and/or nostalgic kind like myself wanting to see and reflect when on exactly I went to some obscure destination on what equipment. I started off and am still in FlightMemory (FM) which I mostly trust for basic “logging purpose” to have data in one central place, but the interface and, say, the maps are ideal for those missing the early days of the internet, i.e. not very sexy as opposed to the impression I get from OpenFlights. Have a suspicion that FM has many many users because they signed up early (like myself) and don’t know what’s out there and don’t know how to migrate data.
So, on the nerdier side, what’s the recommendation, when one wants to log equipment used, registration and the like?