Flight Plan B

Screenshot the confirmation email. That's the setup.

Open the airline's confirmation email, screenshot it, and share the screenshot to Flight Plan B. The app reads the flights, times, confirmation number and seats, and builds the trip.

• Hotel or rental car email too? Share those the same way. They stack onto the same trip.
• On iPhone you pick the screenshot from inside the app. Apple doesn't let a web app receive a share yet.
• Rather type? Setup has a plain form for every field.
• An AI model does the reading, and it can be wrong, so look the trip over once. A screenshot is sent as it is, read, and not kept. If you'd rather, paste the email's text instead: confirmation numbers, phone numbers, emails and street addresses are blanked out on your phone before the text goes anywhere.

Do this the night before, on the couch. The app is worth the most when it's set up before travel day.

One step on screen. One voice in your ear.

The Trip tab turns the whole day into a list of physical moves and shows you one at a time. It reads each step out loud, so the phone can stay in your pocket with an earbud in.

A trip with a connection and a rental car runs about thirteen steps: head to the airport, check in, security, gate, boarding, in flight, the connection, second boarding, landing, baggage claim, rental car, hit the road. Coming home it runs the other direction, down to where you left your truck.

What's on that screen

The boarding countdown

Once your times are in, the clock to boarding stays at the top of every screen. Green is fine, yellow is tight, red is late.

The "by" time on every step

Each step has a time you should be done by, worked backward from boarding. The chip tells you how far ahead or behind you are. On the drive step it uses your location to turn that into a leave-by time.

One green button

There is only ever one glowing button, and it is the next thing to press. Usually NEXT. Sometimes it's the step's own action, like opening Waze or your boarding pass.

AUTO

With AUTO on, the app uses your phone's location to move to the next step when you get there, and says it out loud. Indoors, where GPS is weak, tap NEXT. Turn AUTO off and you drive every step by hand.

Running behind

If you're past a step's time, the app says so once. It calls boarding at 30, 15 and 0 minutes. It stays quiet in the air.

🚧 Dated notices

If the airport has posted a closure that affects your step on your travel date, a closed garage ramp or a moved drop-off, it shows first on that step, gets read aloud, and adds minutes to your clock. Notices come from the airport's own website and expire on their own.

Live flight status

During the trip the app checks your flight every few minutes. A delay of 15 minutes or more, a gate change or a cancellation gets announced once, and the schedule shifts to match. A cancelled leg opens the Plan B screen by itself.

Still at the gate

If you're 15 minutes past departure and your phone says you haven't left the airport, the app tells you how much connection buffer you have left, and keeps telling you every 15 minutes.

Landing preview

Before you land somewhere, the app tells you what's coming: how to get from the gate to bags, whether the rental cars are a walk or a shuttle, and where ride apps pick up. The more you know ahead of time, the better the walk goes.

Boarding pass, one tap

Save a picture of your boarding pass in Setup and the boarding step shows it full-screen on a white background, ready for the scanner.

🔦 Beacon

Meeting a ride at a crowded curb? Beacon turns the whole screen into a slow flashing color with your name on it. Hold it up.

Your plan for the bad day, written while you're calm.

When a connection dies, a hundred-plus people stand up and head for one gate agent. The few seats left go to whoever asks first. Plan B doesn't find you a seat. It gets you ready to ask: your time left, what the airport is doing, what happens to your bag, the order to try things in, and the airline's page and phone number one tap away.

Start with your airline's own app. It will often rebook you by itself. Plan B is for when its answer isn't good enough.

What it does not do today: it does not list the flights still leaving. That is being built on a real flight feed and will not be switched on until it has been checked by hand against the airlines.

What's on the Plan B screen

The verdict

Your connection buffer in minutes, judged before you land. It counts your seat: row 25 is about ten minutes just getting off the plane, and that comes out of your buffer.

Your hard deadline

Funeral at ten. Job walk at eight. Put it in Setup, as the clock time where you're going, and it sits at the top of the Plan B screen. The app tells you if even your booked flights can't make it, and says it out loud when a connection breaks, so you turn down anything that lands too late. Including the airline's automatic rebooking.

What the FAA says, right now

Ground stops and delay programs at your airports, from the FAA's own feed, with the time it was checked. It tells you about the airport, not your one flight. When nothing is active, it says so.

See what the airline already did

One button opens your reservation on the airline's own site with your confirmation number copied and ready. Check there first, so you don't buy what they were about to give you free.

Your checked bag

Type the bag-tag number once. The card tells you what happens to the bag for each kind of move: same airline comes with you, another airport or a new ticket means it arrives separately. It gives you the words to use with the agent, and it knows which airlines will move you to another carrier and which won't.

Party of two, three or four

Traveling together? The card tells you what to ask for, and to decide now who takes a single seat if only one opens.

Your ladder

The order to try things in: later flight on your airline, another airline, a nearby airport and a drive, a rental car the whole way. It is written by an AI model when you save the trip and it is labeled that way. It is the shape of your way out. It is not today's schedule, and it carries no flight numbers or times. For today's flights: the airline's app, the agent, or the All Flights button.

Work every channel at once

Call while you walk to the agent. One tap each for the phone line, the airline's app and its social account. Whoever answers first wins.

The ground game

When flying is out: the drive, mapped from the airport you're standing in, and your rental company.

Nothing leaves tonight. Now what.

One button at the bottom of Plan B. The screen runs in the order that saves the most.

• Lock tomorrow's seat first. Tomorrow's seats go the same way tonight's did. Your reservation, the phone line and tomorrow's flights are one tap each.
• Who pays for the bed. What your airline has committed to, in writing, to the U.S. Department of Transportation, when the problem is the airline's fault: a room, the ride, a meal. If the FAA lists weather at your airport, the screen says this looks like weather, and no airline owes a room for weather. Either way: ask before you book anything yourself. A commitment is not a guarantee. The agent decides.
• Show the agent. Your ask, your confirmation number and your party size in big type on a white screen. Hold it up or read it out.
• Find a room. Three searches already aimed at your airport for tonight. The app does not know any hotel's shuttle times. It tells you to call and ask when the last one runs tonight and the first one runs in the morning.
• Your bag and your money. Keep every receipt. Check the benefits on the card you bought the ticket with. And the U.S. refund rule in plain words, for when you're done with this airline.
• Tomorrow morning. Type the new departure time and the app works backward to when you need to leave the hotel. Then one button writes the text to your people.

Every link for this trip, already aimed.

The Hub builds itself from your trip. Nothing here is a generic link. Each button opens the right thing for this flight, this airport, this hotel.

• Landing card. The arrival airport in three lines: gate to bags, rental cars on-site or by shuttle, where ride apps pick up.
• Manage Trip. Opens the airline's page and copies your confirmation number on the way.
• Security waits for your departure airport, where the airport publishes them.
• Ground. Uber or Lyft to the hotel, or your rental company and Waze to the hotel, depending on how you said you're getting around.
• Flight Intel. Each flight's on-time record, and the FAA's national delay board.
• Delay risk. Weather at both ends and at your connection, pulled from the National Weather Service.
• Bag Math. A small calculator: coach plus bag fees against a premium seat with bags included. Sometimes first class is the cheaper ticket.
• Calendar. One tap puts each flight on your calendar.
• Flying out of Las Vegas? The Hub adds the LAS Insider card. The full guide is free: LAS Insider.

Set it once, the night before.

• Trip details. Everything the screenshot filled in, open to edit. The app checks the trip for problems before it saves.
• How you're getting around. Parking your own car, getting dropped off, ride app, or rental. This changes the steps at both ends.
• TSA PreCheck, checked bags, seat row, party size. Each one changes the clock or the advice.
• Hard deadline. The time you must be on the ground by. Plan B puts it first on the screen and reminds you of it when things break.
• Boarding passes. Add a picture of each. Stored on the phone only.
• Voice and alerts. Pick the voice and the speed, then press TEST VOICE and TEST ALERT. If alerts are blocked, the app tells you the exact phone setting to change. Do this once, before travel day.

40 airports built by hand from the airports' own websites.

ATL AUS BNA BOS BUR BWI CLT DAL DAY DCA DEN DFW DTW EWR FLL HNL HOU IAD IAH JFK LAS LAX LGA MCO MDW MIA MSP OAK ORD PHL PHX PNS SAN SEA SFO SJC SLC SMF SNA TPA

Each one covers which terminal your airline uses, the checkpoints, how terminals connect, where ride apps really pick up, and whether the rental cars are a walk or a shuttle. More are added every week.

Flying somewhere else? The app builds a guide from that airport's official website the first time someone flies there, and says so on screen: built from the website, not walked.

At every airport, the signs in front of you win.

The trip lives on your phone and wipes itself.

• No account. No email signup, no password, no profile.
• No trip stored on our server. The server knows a pass was paid for. When you use an AI feature, what you send passes through to be read and is not kept.
• Self-destruct. Flights, confirmation numbers and boarding passes wipe 24 hours after your last departure. Or tap WIPE THIS TRIP NOW on the last step.
• No tracking scripts on this page or in the app.

Privacy notice

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  It cannot rebook you or hold a seat. It puts the options and the airline's rebooking page one tap away. The airline makes the change.
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  It is not official flight status, the TSA, or the airport. The airline app, the board and the signs win.
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  The AI parts can be wrong. Screenshot reading, airport guides built from a website, and Plan B ladders use an AI model and are labeled. Check flight numbers and gates with the airline.
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  It only works while it's open. It's a web app. Keep it on screen, or at least running, on travel day. On iPhone the voice needs the screen on.
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  No account means no backup. Lose the phone, lose the trip.