[slimshreydy]

Haha thanks to whomever shared this! I'm Shrey and I'm actually the guy who developed this site. I travel a ton (and run a travel company too!) and I kept having friends ask me how to avoid Boeing planes, so I figured i'd make this to help out. Hope y'all find it useful :)

[mike_d]

> I travel a ton (and run a travel company too!)

I would expect someone who works in the industry to know that this website is extremely misleading. The process of airlines assigning airframes to routes is not deterministic and accurate data only exists within the airlines internal systems, which even then is subject to change right up to departure. The data you get in your feed that indicates airframe is just the most common model that has flown that route over the last 90 days.

Really wish people would stop building these websites.

[slimshreydy]

Yep, I do mention as much in the disclaimers for the site when you put in a flight. It's true that airlines fully have the right to change the aircraft, but they also reserve the right to change basically any part of your itinerary (e.g. move you from one flight to another under unexpected circumstances/IRROPS). I figure presenting info that has a high probability of being correct is better than not presenting any info at all just because of a chance of it being incorrect under IRROPS circumstances.

On the note of high probability: we do use data sources that plug into the GDS booking systems for the flights, so it's not just a historical thing for this site specifically. While that once again doesn't give us a guarantee, it's likely better than relying on previous route aircraft stats.

[amelius]

Can this somehow be made a filter option when booking a flight? Like in a browser extension?

[declaredapple]

Heads up that tickets generally don't guarantee the plane you'll be on, they can change at any time for a bunch of different reasons.

[mike_d]

Kayak.com added this because it is a meta-search, but they left it off their other direct booking sites (booking.com and priceline.com) I suspect due to liability reasons. This is why almost all car rental listings say "Honda Civic (or similar)" because the person taking your money does not control the car you end up with.

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/what-is-the-bait...

[slimshreydy]

If there's enough interest in this I'm happy to oblige!

[jollyllama]

Wanna add Spirit?

[slimshreydy]

Yea I think this should be possible! I'll add it in.