There is a number of services that communicate with you via mobile phone, sending updates about the flight of your choice.

Airlines from StarAlliance use a OAG service to send SMS alerts to you and other specified parties if there is a significant change to the flight. Learn/start here.

There is also a OAG Flights2GO service which comes at about $120 price and offers a whole bunch of things like flights lookup and real-time info. It works through the Internet or WAP. Decide for yourself if you want to use it. As for me, I choose SMS delivery.

FlightAssist.com of CellTrust offers SMS notifications about your flight and also about plane landing/taking-off, delivered to the specified mobile phone numbers. Subscription to FlightAssist costs $0,99–2 per flight depending on the number of alerts/reminders. Parties to receive alerts have to pay for notifications too. It is better to check with http://flightassist.com/faq.aspx#3 about pricing – it’s complicated!

US residents can use Google which sends flight updates to your mobile (the service is provided via FlightStats.com). GOOGLE is accessible in the US by texting to the number 466453 (GOOGLE). The service is FREE (well, some US operators charge for outgoing and incoming SMS!). Send your fight info (like “UA 111″) or airline’s name (“United”) to get either flight or airline information.

http://4info.net/howto/flights.jsp offers the same (for the US) through the number 4info (44636).

And, as I have mentioned, flightstats.com supplies its info for Google and for m.yahoo.com so when you mobile search through Google or Yahoo you get flight stats flight info. FlightStats offers notification through some cell phone providers (service requires registration). Thus you can receive notifications on your cell phone if you have your provider in their list:

UK residents can use AirText at http://www.airtext.co.uk/ to get info for flights originated/terminated in the UK via SMS.

There is also a UK/worldwide service (requires registration and receiving ads) – http://www.streamthru.com. However, being in Russia (or in the US for that matter) I could not register for the service because of the postal code field which apparently wants the UK code!

Some airports/airlines also offer SMS notifications (I have heard that of the UK, Israel, Czech, and Russia).

Tags: Flight Tracker, Mobile, Mobile Alerts