I’m not sure I would have even thought to try this - but it’s pretty darn cool:
Alert! Cool Googlosity Feature! On a hunch, I just typed the carrier name and number of Margaret’s plane flight into the Google search box, and Google correctly parsed that data and offered as the first search result a link to the actual status page for that flight — but on the search results page, it also listed the flight’s origin, destination, scheduled departure and arrival times, and its present status — right there atop Google results page one, no messing with airlines’ arcane “enter this data into that box and click the following agreements, and by the way what’s your credit card number, your flight club number, and an email address at which we can harass you for the rest of the internet’s lifetime.”
Now that I’ll be flying a bit more - this is probably a good tip for my friends and family.
You can also get this info by sending a text message to Google (466453), which is handy if you’re not near a computer. |Google Mobile.|