For frequent flyers
Airside uses machine learning and advanced aviation data to do two things no other flight app does: predict delays before the airline announces them, and map turbulence forecasts directly onto your actual filed route at cruise altitude. Add live aircraft tracking, inbound flight monitoring, and instant push alerts, and you have the flight app serious travelers reach for first.
Saved Flights & Alerts
Save the flights you care about and Airside watches them for you — predicting delays, surfacing the inbound aircraft, and pushing notifications the instant gate, time, or status changes.
Push alerts for gate changes, delays, baggage carousel assignments, diversions, and cancellations — delivered within seconds of the airline reporting them, on both Android and the installed web app.
Airside uses machine learning to estimate delays based on a multitude of factors, including the real-time status of the inbound aircraft — which is constantly monitored. The model typically surfaces delay signals well before the airline posts an official update.
Airside automatically identifies the aircraft scheduled to operate your flight and tracks its prior leg in real time, so you see trouble — a slow inbound, a diversion, weather at the previous airport — before the gate agent does.
Airside is the same app on your phone, your tablet, and your desktop browser. Add flights from the larger desktop view — easier to search, easier to type — and they appear instantly across every device.
Every saved flight shows current phase, gate, departure and arrival times, and a progress bar shaded with the turbulence forecast along the remaining route — no tapping in required.
Forward any saved flight to the person picking you up with a single tap. They get a link that opens directly to live tracking — no account, no install required.
Live Tracking
Airside reads aircraft positions straight from the ADS-B broadcasts — the same data air traffic control sees — with none of the five- or fifteen-minute artificial delays the consumer trackers add.
Live aircraft positions from the ADS-B network with no artificial delay — altitude-colored trails, velocity vectors, and full data blocks for callsign, altitude, speed, and heading.
A fully interactive 3D globe with filed and flown routes drawn in three dimensions over SIGMETs, AIRMETs, and airspace volumes. Tilt, rotate, and switch between 2D and 3D without losing context.
Search by flight number or in plain English — "Delta from ATL to LAX today". Airside pulls the filed route, decodes the waypoints, draws the flown track, and gives you a timeline scrubber.
Real-time FAA delay program data — ground delay programs, ground stops, arrival and departure delays, closures — surfaced directly on the airport markers and color-coded by severity.
Tap any airport to see every aircraft currently inbound or outbound, filtered live on the map. Useful for watching the flow into a congested hub before your own arrival.
Class B/C/D airspace boundaries with optional 3D extrusion, VFR sectionals, IFR low and high enroute charts, plus VOR/NDB/DME navaids and waypoint fixes for serious chart reading.
Aviation Weather
Airside is the only consumer app that maps advanced aviation turbulence forecasts onto your filed route at your cruise altitude — and pairs them with live pilot reports from aircraft already up there.
Advanced aviation turbulence forecasting, sampled along your filed route at your cruise altitude — and shaded onto every saved flight's progress bar so you can see, at a glance, where the bumps are likely.
Color-coded PIREPs at reported altitude — smooth through extreme — straight from the pilots flying near your route right now. Tap any dot for the full report.
Turbulence and convective SIGMETs plus G-AIRMETs rendered as semi-transparent 3D volumes with altitude extrusion — see exactly which hazard areas your route penetrates and at what flight level.
National composite radar reflectivity, refreshed every few minutes — with optional ground-clutter thinning for cleaner reading.
Clean grayscale infrared satellite imagery showing cloud-top temperatures — brighter is colder, higher, and more convectively active. Optionally tint the coldest tops. Refreshes every ten minutes.
Surface conditions and short-term forecasts at the departure and arrival airports, plus a timeline scrubber that re-filters every weather layer to your projected position at any point in the flight.
Support
Answers to the questions we hear most — and a direct line to us if you don't find what you need.
Frequent flyers who want professional-quality information about their flights — real ADS-B positions, route-specific turbulence forecasts, predictive delay estimates, and live alerts — without buying a pilot subscription. If you fly often enough that gate changes and rotation delays matter to you, Airside is built for you.
Airline apps tell you what the airline wants you to see. Consumer trackers show status with deliberate delays and no analysis. Airside does two things they don't:
Add live undelayed tracking, active inbound aircraft monitoring, and push notifications the instant gate, time, or status changes — and you have a tool that treats you like a pilot, not a passenger.
Airside uses machine learning to estimate departure times based on a multitude of factors, including the real-time status of the inbound aircraft that will operate your flight — which is constantly monitored. The model typically surfaces delay signals well before the gate display has changed or the airline has posted an official update.
Push notifications on Android and the installed web app cover:
All notifications can be toggled in Settings, and notifications only fire for flights you've explicitly saved.
No. Airside runs in any modern browser at pwa.airsideapp.com. It is also a Progressive Web App — tap "Add to Home Screen" to install it as a full-screen app that can deliver push notifications. On Android, you can additionally install the native build from the Play Store for tighter notification integration.
Yes — and we recommend it. Airside is the same application across phone, tablet, and desktop browser. Adding flights from your laptop is faster (real keyboard, larger search results), and they sync instantly to your phone for tracking and notifications.
Yes. Sign in with your Google account once and your saved flights, theme, accent color, and feature toggles sync automatically across every device you use.
Airside pulls from professional aviation sources: live aircraft positions from the ADS-B network, flight schedules and status from commercial flight-data providers, turbulence forecasts and pilot reports from the FAA Aviation Weather Center, airport delay programs from the FAA, and radar and satellite imagery from national weather services. Positions are shown without the artificial delays the consumer trackers add.
Turbulence is sampled from the FAA's Graphical Turbulence Guidance forecast along your filed route at cruise altitude — the same model professional dispatchers use — and supplemented with real-time pilot reports. Delay predictions are machine-learning estimates, not guarantees: they surface a likely delay signal early, often before the airline posts an official update, but the airline's own update is always authoritative once it lands.
Airside stores only what it needs to track your flights and sync your preferences: your saved flights and settings, tied to your Google sign-in. It does not sell your data or share it with advertisers. To remove everything, delete your saved flights and sign out, or email us and we'll remove your account.
We read everything. Email support@airsideapp.com with what you ran into — the flight number and roughly when it happened help us track issues down fast — or send along a feature you'd like to see.
Questions, bug reports, and feature ideas all go to the same place. We aim to reply within a couple of business days.
support@airsideapp.comGet Started
Sign in with Google, save a flight, and Airside takes it from there.
Works on every modern browser — desktop, tablet, and phone. Install it as a Progressive Web App from your browser menu for full-screen launch and push notifications.
Install the native Android app from Google Play for tight system notification integration and background flight tracking.
