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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : Next Flight

12.26.2008 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Uncategorized

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26/12/2008 – iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : Next Flight

Over the past few months I have played with quite a few travel planning iPhone ‘Apps’ and multiple flight tracking ‘Apps’ however these apps are all somewhat cumbersome for quick on the run changes to travel.   I recently began to use an ‘App’ that is ideal for both helping myself and other travellers quickly deal with missed flights, changes of destination and needing to know how to get from ‘here-to-there’ instantly and effortlessly.

This new ‘App’ is Next Flight, by TouchMeme.  Next Flight’s name says it all, it helps travellers quickly find the next flight.    Say you’ve shown up at Baltimore’s BWI Airport and have a business dinner in Chicago (ORD or MDW) but missed your flight.  Rather than stumble through online travel search engines that do not show all the available flights, you pull out Next Flight and you are quickly shown all the next flights, regardless of airline, airline alliance or price.  While flyers may have a preference for a carrier or alliance, sometimes it is far more important to get to your destination than accrue more frequent flyer miles.

For those flyers that want to fly only certain airlines Next Flight does offer a filter than allows you to limit what airlines are searched.

The downside to Next Flight is that it does not reliably pull up connection flights.  I have a hard time searching Providence (PVD) to San Francisco (SFO); I need to search the known connections.   Hopefully this glitch will be worked out shortly, because flyers like me almost always fly connections to get where they are going.

Despite the glitch of not searching connection flights, overall I have found Next Flight to be well worth its US$2.99 price tag!

Below are five screen shots of Next Flight in use on my iPhone.

Happy Flying!
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2 Responses

  1. Krishna December 26th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    We are glad you found this application useful. Thank you for writing about this application.

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