FlightConnections vs BoardingArea
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FlightConnections
Explore worldwide flight routes and schedules from any airport. Plan trips, discover new destinations, and filter flights by airline or alliance. Ideal for travel hacking, trip planning, and finding the best flight connections.
- Interactive flight route map
- Plan trips from local airports
- Filter by airline or alliance
- Discover airline routes and schedules
- Compare direct and connecting flights
- Search flights with up to 2 stops
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FlightConnections is the Swiss army knife that should not be missing in your travel toolkit. It’s one of the best tools for travel hacking, trip planning and travel inspiration. Want to know where you can fly from your local airport? Need to know which airlines are operating? Prefer to fly with a specific alliance only? FlightConnections is here to help! FlightConnections provides an overview of all flight routes worldwide. Flight schedules and timetables from every airline in the world for 12 months ahead are presented in a very convenient way. Within seconds, FlightConnections provides you with schedule information of any flight route, operated by any airline. Find the most convenient flight route at the most convenient departure time. Search for flights with up to 2 stops and filter down extensively: to show flights and airports operated by a specific airline or alliance only (especially useful for business and award travelers). Even the most seasoned travel gurus, travel professionals and travel agents, award travelers and non-revs, cabin crew and pilots are using FlightConnections daily. Don't waste hours searching flights, use FlightConnections! FLIGHTCONNECTIONS MAIN FEATURES • Interactive Flight Route Map. • Plan a trip based on your preferred local airport. • Find new, nearby airports on the map. • Filter by airline or alliance. • Discover airline routes and flight schedules / timetables. • Compare direct flights or connections flights. • Show connecting flights with one or two stops. • Show connecting flights with different airlines, or the same airline only. • Find cheap flights and book flight tickets for the best price available. • Useful for frequent travelers, travel professionals, cabin crew and pilots, backpackers and digital nomads. Any questions or feedback? Contact us at: contact@flightconnections.com
BoardingArea
Access a curated collection of top travel blogs in one convenient app. Filter content to your preferences, bookmark articles for later, and easily search for news. Enjoy quality travel insights from experienced bloggers.
- Curated travel blog content
- Content filtering by preference
- Bookmark articles
- Browse and search news
- Hand-selected quality blogs
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BoardingArea was developed by the same people who founded some of the most popular business travel and frequent flyer websites on the Internet and for more than 25 years, we’re continuing to do so by compiling the best travel blogs all in one place. Each blog in the BoardingArea network has been hand selected by our team for its quality of content, its timeliness and, last but not least, for its entertainment value. What our app will deliver: - Access to quality and hand selected travel news - Set preferences to filter to the content you need - Bookmark articles for later reading - Browse and search news
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Verdict
FlightConnections and BoardingArea both sit at 3.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of BoardingArea's written reviews are positive against 13% of FlightConnections's. BoardingArea also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 28 months). FlightConnections's advantage is ratings volume (377 vs 3). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FlightConnections holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FlightConnections has 377 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 13% of FlightConnections's written reviews are positive against 50% of BoardingArea's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
FlightConnections ships an update every 28 months, BoardingArea monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlightConnections | BoardingArea |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (377 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 12.6% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 377 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 28 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin Joling | Ran Decisions, Inc |
Customer experience
FlightConnections
BoardingArea
Bugs and requests
FlightConnections
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes frequently
- Login screen gets stuck
- Zooming and scrolling issues
- Inconsistent behavior across devices
Requested features
4 requests- Option to use app without subscription
- Ability to manage subscription within the app
- Improved login and account management
- Faster updates to route information
BoardingArea
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FlightConnections
No in-app purchases
BoardingArea
No in-app purchases
