Flight tracking for frequent flyers
Save a flight and Airside watches it for you: a delay prediction that moves before the departure board does, the turbulence forecast drawn along your route, and live tracking straight from the aircraft's own ADS-B broadcasts.
Delay prediction
Most delays are visible early if you know where to look: the aircraft scheduled to fly your leg is two airports away and already running behind. Airside finds that aircraft, tracks its day in real time, and keeps a machine-learning departure estimate next to the airline's official one. It typically moves well before the gate display changes.
Route turbulence
Airside samples the turbulence guidance professional dispatchers use along your flight's actual filed route, at the altitude it will actually fly, and shades the result straight onto the flight's progress bar. Green is smooth, amber is chop, red is keep-your-belt-on. No other consumer flight app does this.
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One app, identical on your phone and in your browser.
Saved flights
Airside monitors every flight you save and tells you the moment something changes — gate, times, baggage claim, or the prediction itself.
Gate changes, delays, baggage carousel assignments, diversions, and cancellations, delivered within seconds of the airline reporting them. On Android and the installed web app alike.
Every saved flight shows its current phase, gate, times, and a progress bar shaded with the turbulence forecast for the rest of the route. No tapping in required.
Send any saved flight to the person picking you up. They get a link that opens straight to live tracking — no account, no install.
Sign in with Google and your flights, theme, and settings follow you. Add a flight from the laptop — real keyboard, bigger results — and it's on your phone instantly.
Live map
Positions come straight from the aircraft's ADS-B broadcasts, without the five- or fifteen-minute artificial delay consumer trackers add.
Altitude-colored trails, velocity vectors, and full data blocks for callsign, altitude, speed, and heading.
Filed and flown routes drawn in three dimensions over hazard volumes on an interactive globe. Tilt, rotate, and switch between 2D and 3D without losing context.
Search by flight number or just type "Delta from ATL to LAX today". Airside pulls the filed route, decodes the waypoints, and draws the flown track with a timeline scrubber.
Ground stops, ground delay programs, and arrival or departure delays, color-coded by severity on the airport markers. Tap an airport to filter the map to everything inbound and outbound.
VFR sectionals, IFR low and high enroute charts, Class B/C/D boundaries with optional 3D extrusion, and VOR/NDB/DME navaids with waypoint fixes.
Open any saved flight and jump to the aircraft flying its previous leg — the one whose day decides whether yours leaves on time.
Aviation weather
Radar, satellite, pilot reports, and hazard volumes — and with a flight open, every layer shows the moment your flight is actually there.
Color-coded reports at their reported altitude, smooth through extreme, from the pilots flying near your route right now. Tap any dot for the full report.
Turbulence and convective hazard areas rendered as semi-transparent 3D volumes with altitude extrusion, so you can see which ones your route actually penetrates, and at what level.
Composite weather radar refreshed every few minutes, plus infrared satellite showing cloud-top temperatures — brighter means colder, higher, and more convectively active.
Surface conditions and short-term forecasts at both ends of the flight, plus a timeline scrubber that re-filters every weather layer to your projected position at any point en route.
Support
Answers to the questions we hear most.
Frequent flyers who want professional-quality information without buying a pilot subscription. 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:
If you fly often enough that gate changes and rotation delays matter to you, it's built for you.
Airside identifies the aircraft scheduled to operate your flight and monitors its whole day. Machine learning turns that — the inbound's progress, plus the broader state of your departure — into a predicted departure time that updates continuously. The signal typically surfaces well before the gate display changes or the airline posts an official update.
The full list:
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, and "Add to Home Screen" installs it as a full-screen app that can still deliver push notifications. Android also has a native build on Google Play, for tighter notification integration.
Yes. Airside runs in any modern desktop browser, and on both Macs and PCs you can install it as a real desktop app straight from Chrome: open pwa.airsideapp.com, then use the install icon in the address bar or Chrome's Install as app menu option. It opens in its own window with its own icon in the Dock or taskbar, just like a native app. Your saved flights and settings sync with your phone automatically.
Yes. Sign in with your Google account once and your saved flights, theme, accent color, and feature toggles follow you everywhere. Adding flights from a laptop is faster — real keyboard, larger search results — and they're on your phone instantly, tracking and notifying.
Professional aviation sources: aircraft positions from the ADS-B network, 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 consumer trackers add.
Turbulence is sampled from the FAA's Graphical Turbulence Guidance forecast — the same model professional dispatchers use — and supplemented with real-time pilot reports. Delay predictions are estimates, not guarantees: they surface a likely delay early, 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.
Questions, bug reports, and feature ideas all go to the same place, and we read everything. For a bug, the flight number and roughly when it happened help us track it down fast. We aim to reply within a couple of business days.
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Sign in with Google, save a flight, and Airside takes it from there.
Every modern browser — desktop, tablet, and phone. Install it from the 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.
A native iPhone and iPad app is on the way. Until then, the web app runs great in Safari — add it to your Home Screen for a full-screen, installable experience.
One subscription, every device. Airside Pro is keyed to your account, not your hardware — subscribe once on Android or the web and it unlocks the same features on both, automatically. iOS joins the same subscription when it launches.
