FAAwait vs Inflight CrewRest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FAAwait
Get real-time updates on air traffic delays at all U.S. airports. Monitor departure and arrival delays, ground stops, and ground delays to anticipate potential travel disruptions.
- Real-time U.S. airport delay data
- Tracks departure and arrival delays
- Monitors ground stops
- Monitors ground delays
- Utilizes FAA data feed
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FAAwait provides real-time access to current air traffic delays at all U.S. airports. It utilizes a data feed maintained by the FAA that tracks departure and arrival delays, ground stops, and ground delays. To access this information, an active internet connection (WiFi or cellular) is required. FAAwait does NOT provide status information for specific flights. But by monitoring airport traffic conditions, you can often anticipate delays that may impact your travel, sometimes before the airlines themselves officially update their schedules. For more information on FAAwait, refer to the links below. Note: This application is not provided or endorsed by the FAA.
Inflight CrewRest
This app calculates required rest periods for flight attendants on long-haul international flights. It accounts for multiple rest breaks, service times, and provides detailed countdowns and results.
- Calculates flight attendant rest periods
- Supports multiple rest breaks (2, 3, or 4)
- Considers mid-service and landing service
- Includes over 100 major destinations with timezones
- Allows adding custom timezones/airports
- Detailed results with countdown timers
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CrewRest is a simple airline crew rest/break application/calculator for determining rest periods for flight attendants on long-haul international flights. Features - Pre-installed with over 100 major Destinations to immediately determine timezones to start a crew rest calculation. - Ability to Add additional timezones/airports not already in pre-loaded list. - Optionally calculate rest periods with consideration to for mid-service (for two rest breaks only) and landing service. - Calculate two, three or four rest periods for a single flight. - Detailed results view including gap indicators, end of rest periods, start of landing or mid service, estimated landing time. - Auto countdown display for each rest break.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Inflight CrewRest at Free against FAAwait's $0.99. Inflight CrewRest also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months). FAAwait's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 2.2) and review sentiment (56% vs 21%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Inflight CrewRest is free to download; FAAwait costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FAAwait holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of FAAwait's written reviews are positive against 21% of Inflight CrewRest's.
FAAwait ships an update every 10 months, Inflight CrewRest every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FAAwait | Inflight CrewRest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (37 ratings) — better | 2.2 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.8% of reviews — better | 20.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #40 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bryan Figler | CrewFly Solutions, LLC |
Customer experience
FAAwait
Inflight CrewRest
Bugs and requests
FAAwait
Reported bugs
21 issues- Some functions aren’t working
- FAA OIS Board not working
- No map displayed after updating to iPadOS17
- Map has disappeared after iPadOS 17
- APP was great until iPadOS 17 then the map basically has disappeared
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- App cannot communicate with FAA servers
- Crashes immediately after last update
- New update makes app unusable
- App crashes every time I open
- Latest update crashes
- Will not open
- Shows daylight time instead of standard time
- Does not switch to UTC when selected
- No connect issues
- Broken App
- Constantly gives a Connection error message
- Connection error
- App is broken
- Worthless
- App no longer works
- App closed unexpectedly
Requested features
8 requests- Needs to be updated
- Proper updates to bring app into 2026
- iPad version needed
- iPad App needed
- Search airport function
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- Scope of delay programs indicated
- Legend colors match map colors
- Access to airline delays
Inflight CrewRest
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FAAwait
No in-app purchases
Inflight CrewRest
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is FAAwait free?
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