About Taya Flights

Enriched flight data (scheduled & actual times, flight track, aircraft type & registration, etc) is available for flights starting January 1st, 2011, including most commercial flights and certain non-commercials flights. Flights prior to this as well as other non-commercial flights can be added manually as custom flights (see below).

Personal flight data (class of service, seat, booking code, notes, etc.) can be tracked for each flight. Tracking costs & upgrades will be supported in a future release.

Taya currently supports up to 5,000 flights per user. The underlying infrastructure can support substantially more; we'll up the limit if and when needed.

Taya supports flight data in three types of flights: standard flights, custom flights, and override flights.

Standard flights: Standard flights (the default) are automatically enriched with data on flight schedule, flight route, etc. Once you add a standard flight to your flight log (e.g., by searching for a flight number and date), the app will add the available flight details, and the data will be updated (e.g., with delay information and aircraft registration) when the flight ends. All app users see the same flight data for standard flights (but not your personal data, such as seat number).

Custom flights: Custom flights are flights that you add manually to your flight log (e.g., in cases where the flight is not found in Taya's database). All of the flight data — airline, flight number, schedule, aircraft, etc. — is set manually, and will not be updated automatically. Your custom flight data is private to you, and not shared with other app users.

Override flights: Override flights combine a standard flight with custom data. They are branched from a standard flight, and then allow you to override specific fields — e.g., if our data shows a flight as marketed & operated by SkyWest but it was actually marketed by United (and operated by SkyWest), you can specifically override the marketing airline to United. Non-overridden fields will continue to be updated automatically, e.g., the overriden United/Skywest flight will be automatically updated with actual time of departure and aircraft registration.

You can easily import flights by either forwarding confirmation emails or uploading CSVs.

Taya can also directly import CSVs, including those from Flighty, myFlightradar24, OpenFlights.org, Alaska Airlines, and United Airlines. You can also create your own custom CSV using Taya's CSV format, or import a CSV aligned with the FlightMemory.com data model (contact me to get a script that will export your FlightMemory data to CSV, as this is not offered directly in the FlightMemory app). The app will soon support additional CSV formats.

The importer will occassionally not be able to find certain flights in our enriched database (due to codeshares, ADS-B blocking, pre-2011 flights, etc.). In this case, the importer will by default create a custom flight in your log using the data provided in the CSV or email.

A future release will support importing flights from Apple Wallet & Google Wallet passes.

Airline metrics are primarily calculated by marketing airline, with breakdowns by operating airline available on the airline detail page. E.g., a flight operated by SkyWest but marketed by United will be counted as a United flight, but you can also see how much of your travel on United was operated by SkyWest.

Note that marketing airline detection is not perfect; some flights (particularly older flights) will show up solely under the operating airline. You can manually override the marketing airline for a given flight if desired.

Some less common airlines won't yet show up in the "Add Flight" airline dropdown. If you instead search by route or aircraft registration, you should be able to find your flight, and that airline will subsequently show up in the airline dropdown.

Taya has primarily been tested on Safari to date, and should run well on both Safari desktop and Safari mobile (including as an iOS web app). There has been some testing on Chrome. Your mileage may vary on other browsers; please send feedback if you run into compatibility issues.

The app currently needs an internet connection to be used. Offline browser support may be added in the future.

User authentication is currently available via email & password or Google account. Other single-sign on account types will be supported in a future release.