Am I Flying Boeing?

Am I Flying Boeing?(amiflyingonaboeing.com)

47 points by lord_sudo 2 years ago | 21 comments

Haha thanks to whomever shared this! I'm Shrey and I'm actually the guy who developed this site. I travel a ton (and run a travel company too!) and I kept having friends ask me how to avoid Boeing planes, so I figured i'd make this to help out. Hope y'all find it useful :)

mike_d 2 years ago | |

> I travel a ton (and run a travel company too!)

I would expect someone who works in the industry to know that this website is extremely misleading. The process of airlines assigning airframes to routes is not deterministic and accurate data only exists within the airlines internal systems, which even then is subject to change right up to departure. The data you get in your feed that indicates airframe is just the most common model that has flown that route over the last 90 days.

Really wish people would stop building these websites.

slimshreydy 2 years ago | | |

Yep, I do mention as much in the disclaimers for the site when you put in a flight. It's true that airlines fully have the right to change the aircraft, but they also reserve the right to change basically any part of your itinerary (e.g. move you from one flight to another under unexpected circumstances/IRROPS). I figure presenting info that has a high probability of being correct is better than not presenting any info at all just because of a chance of it being incorrect under IRROPS circumstances.

On the note of high probability: we do use data sources that plug into the GDS booking systems for the flights, so it's not just a historical thing for this site specifically. While that once again doesn't give us a guarantee, it's likely better than relying on previous route aircraft stats.

amelius 2 years ago | |

Can this somehow be made a filter option when booking a flight? Like in a browser extension?

declaredapple 2 years ago | | |

Heads up that tickets generally don't guarantee the plane you'll be on, they can change at any time for a bunch of different reasons.

mike_d 2 years ago | | |

Kayak.com added this because it is a meta-search, but they left it off their other direct booking sites (booking.com and priceline.com) I suspect due to liability reasons. This is why almost all car rental listings say "Honda Civic (or similar)" because the person taking your money does not control the car you end up with.

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/what-is-the-bait...

slimshreydy 2 years ago | | |

If there's enough interest in this I'm happy to oblige!

jollyllama 2 years ago | |

Wanna add Spirit?

slimshreydy 2 years ago | | |

Yea I think this should be possible! I'll add it in.

koito17 2 years ago |

This seems pretty useful for me. Out of habit, I have always checked whether I am flying an A320 or a 737 MAX when purchasing plane tickets. The information is usually buried in details, in small text.

JAlexoid 2 years ago | |

And it can also change. It's easier to pick an airline that has only one type of fleet

abeppu 2 years ago |

For people on this who are more knowledgeable about both recent incidents and perhaps any details about Boeing as an organization ... do the recent incidents make you skeptical of _all_ Boeing aircraft? Is it only later generations of the 737?

slimshreydy 2 years ago | |

The details are still hazy but it does seem there was some actual supply chain and manufacturing issues with some of these planes. There's a few people that have done pretty nice deep dives on this, like https://heated.world/p/boeings-big-green-disaster.

tekla 2 years ago | | |

That wasn't a deep dive. That was a terrible and biased article that takes a "Boeing should have only focused on the environment" BS. A piece of rag.

mike_d 2 years ago | |

You should be wary of any aircraft that has been worked on by Spirit AeroSystems (not to be confused with Spirit Airlines), which also does work for Airbus and others. The issue with Boeing is entirely poor management that continues to funnel work to Spirit.

voidfunc 2 years ago |

Pretty sure you're still way more likely to die in a car accident and several other ways than on a Boeing flight. The fear around this is silly.

swed420 2 years ago | |

For me it's the basic moral position of avoiding companies who suicide their whistleblowers.

slimshreydy 2 years ago | |

Yea personally I do believe air travel remains remarkably safe, but for some people it does help with peace of mind. Travel is stressful enough I figure!