About this app

✈ FlightHero is a flight-tracking app that provides a real time flight status information and helps you to know flight status, lets you to track a flight. Aware of the fact that is also shows a real time flight-board with arrivals and departures, airport traffic delays and a current airport weather in addition to a 15 day detailed weather forecast and synchronizes with your TripIt account (via In-App TripIt Sync AddOn).

Why we asking you to give a FligthHero special permissions?
- Identity: Used for implementing a user account functionality for saving your flight related data such as favorite flights, favorite accounts and your customized settings.
- Calendar: Used for synchronizing your upcoming fligths with a calendar of your choose so that you won't miss the flight (optional)
- Location: Used for determing nearest airports to you and planes nearby.
- Photos/Media/Files: Used for viewing your stored boarding passes in the app and for moving a FligthHero app to an SD card (optional)
- Camera: For making pictures of your boarding passes
- WiFi connection information: Used to understand whether your WiFi is ON or OFF
- Device and call information: Used for ability to send a text message with flight status

FlightHero has been positively mentioned by Forbes, WSJ, CNN.

These features let FlightHero to be one of the best travel apps:

✈ THE LARGEST COVERAGE FOR THE FLIGHTS, AIRPORTS AND AIRLINES
- 1550 airlines: commercial, cargo, charters
- 17000 airports around the world, including:
• USA (5639)
- Find closest airports to you within 140 miles (200 km)

✈ REAL TIME FLIGHT BOARD WITH ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
- Refreshes regualarly with the ability to cache data when there is no internet connection available
- Advances sorting order
- Advanced filters: airlines, statuses, arrival and departure information and time range for the most effective sky scanning
- 3 days (72 hours) time interval for arrivals and departures

✈ FLIGHT STATUS
- Actual position of the aircraft for the most accurate flight control. Use it as your personal virtual flight radar to know the aircraft speed, latitude, longitude and the altitude

✈ FLIGHT ALERTS via PUSH NOTIFICATIONS including:
- Status confirmation prior to departure
- Notification if the flight is delayed
- Notification if the flight is canceled or diverted
- Arrival notification when the flight lands

✈ AIRPORT WEATHER AND TRAFFIC DELAYS
- 15 day detailed weather forecast helps you stay dry when you grab your kayak for fishing on vacation
- Delay on a 5-point scale with the 0.25 step
- Actual Temperature
- Wind speed and direction

✈ SHARE INFORMATION ON FLIGHT STATUS
- SMS
- Email
- Twitter
- Facebook

✈ TERMINAL PLANS AND SEAT MAPS
- Download all at once from the "Additional Content". Available only for major terminals

✈ SEARCH
- By number
- By route
- Indirect flights
- Recently Used list

✈ FAVORITES
- Add Flights by swiping from the right to the left
- Add Airports

✈ TripIt SYNC
- Synchronization with your TripIt account (Available through In-App)

✈ SERVICES
- Browse hotels via Booking.com
- Car hire via RentalCars.com
- Integrated with Foursquare
- Radar shows nearest airports and flights

✈ MULTILINGUAL
• 29 Languages
• 4U 9525 Germanwings Barcelona Duesseldorf A320

✈ UNIVERSAL APP
- Single version for Android Phones and Tablets

New features

- Fixed maps

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to access extra location provider commands.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.
Allows an application to write the user's calendar data.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to read from external storage.