Goibibo introduces ‘live flight tracking’

Online travel aggregator, Goibibo has launched a new ‘live flight tracking’ feature for 1,824 daily flight schedules across domestic and international flights.

The new feature would not only let passengers have real-time data on the flight schedule, aircraft type, gate number, and baggage carousel information but would also have the friends and family of the passenger track their journey as well as get notified of arrival information or change in schedules.

The latter is a first of its kind feature that allows a passenger to tell which of his contacts should receive live updates on their journey.

“Flight tracking and status information are first of its kind. This is in line with our focus on constantly delivering unique consumer experiences and at the same enhancing our travel social network, goContacts,” said Ashish Kashyap, Founder, and CEO, Ibibo Group, in a statement.

Travellers would also get notifications on delays with estimated time of departure and arrival, change in terminal and gate information.

Goibibo’s flights business turned profitable in 2015. The domestic air ticketing business of Goibibo has grown by more than 100 percent which is 6 times the growth of the market in the last one year.