<story><title>Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45247499</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kalleboo</author><text>In my experience, all the apps (airport, airline, travel apps, even Apple Wallet e-tickets) all have unreliable or heavily delayed gate information. Does anyone really rely on them?</text></item><item><author>Reason077</author><text>Presumably it helps that many (most?) travellers will be using the airline&amp;#x27;s apps these days, which provide info such as boarding times and gate updates.</text></item><item><author>BillinghamJ</author><text>Seems like a pretty big success to me. They had a contingency plan and it was implemented successfully. No cancelled flights and minimal delays - good job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NittLion78</author><text>The apps are touch-and-go. Some are fairly reliable (assuming wherever you are you have decent data connection), others are abyssmal, and none of them seem to be consistent in either regard.&lt;p&gt;I have found, however, if you sign up for SMS updates through most airlines they appear to be quite reliable, and sometimes beat the in-airport departure boards by several minutes, particularly for gate changes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45247499</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kalleboo</author><text>In my experience, all the apps (airport, airline, travel apps, even Apple Wallet e-tickets) all have unreliable or heavily delayed gate information. Does anyone really rely on them?</text></item><item><author>Reason077</author><text>Presumably it helps that many (most?) travellers will be using the airline&amp;#x27;s apps these days, which provide info such as boarding times and gate updates.</text></item><item><author>BillinghamJ</author><text>Seems like a pretty big success to me. They had a contingency plan and it was implemented successfully. No cancelled flights and minimal delays - good job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abawany</author><text>Going to the airline&amp;#x27;s site and looking up the flight status has often resulted in a better update on delays, gate changes, and etc. for me than even the airport&amp;#x27;s status displays.</text></comment>