AirwayControl vs OpsDeck Crew Ops
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AirwayControl
Track flights in real-time with live radar, gate information, and delay notifications. Get assistance with flight disruptions, including rights and claims, and access baggage allowances and airport maps. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with no account required.
- Live flight radar worldwide
- Real-time gate and status updates
- Delay and cancellation notifications
- Flight disruption rights and claims guidance
- Baggage allowance information
- Airport maps with walking estimates
- Live precipitation radar overlay
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Your flight, from the moment you leave the house to the baggage belt at your destination. Every aircraft beautifully presented in the map. Avoid the constant hunt for info screens at the airport. Gate, times and changes are right on your phone, and the app tells you when something changes. At Avinor's airports in Norway, gate and baggage belt come from the same source as the screens in the hall. If something goes wrong, it keeps constant track of what you are entitled to, and guides you through claiming it with ease. MY FLIGHT • Search a flight number, a route or an airline, and add it as My Flight. • Gate, terminal, check-in desk and times on one card, with a Live Activity and a Lock Screen widget. • Notifications you choose: go to gate, gate change, delay, boarding, gate closing, cancellation and baggage on the belt. Worked out on your iPhone, with no account. • Leaving from a Norwegian airport: the expected security wait, and the reclaim belt when you land. WHEN THE FLIGHT GOES WRONG • Delayed or cancelled: what changed, and when the app last checked. • Your rights on that route, in plain language. EU261, UK261 and the national rules of 18 more countries, including Canada, the United States, Brazil, Türkiye and India. • A claim letter to the airline, filled in from what the app already knows. It opens in your own mail app and goes to the airline's own published address. We fill in the form. We are not a claims agency, and we take no fee and no cut. • Where to complain on that route, when the airline says no. • Damaged or delayed bag: the deadline that applies to you, the nearest service desk on the airport map, and every detail the airline's form asks for, ready to paste. BAGGAGE • Published allowances and fees for more than 100 airlines, by fare type: cabin bag, checked bags, extra pieces and overweight. • Allowances also depend on your ticket and status. The app says so, every time. AIRPORTS • Departures and arrivals for any airport you search or tap. • At Norwegian and Nordic airports: gate, belt, check-in desk and live status from Avinor's official feed. • Airport maps with surveyed gates and stands, and a walking estimate to your gate in distance and minutes. One tap hands over to Apple Maps. It is an estimate, not indoor turn-by-turn. LIVE RADAR • Live aircraft on a calm map, worldwide. • Tap a plane: a rendered aircraft in the airline's own colors where we have them, real photos credited to the photographer, the route, and schedule and gate. • Aircraft in view: every aircraft on screen as a list, with a page for each type. • Overhead: what is passing above you right now. • Live precipitation radar over the map. PRIVACY No ads. No account. No tracking. Your location centers the map and measures the walk to your gate. Your exact position never leaves your device. SUBSCRIPTION AirwayControl requires a subscription. One auto-renewable subscription unlocks the whole app. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial; after that it renews monthly at the price shown in the App Store for your country. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically every month unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://airwaycontrol.intelsystems.ai/privacy HONEST LIMITS Aircraft positions work worldwide; refresh rate depends on receiver coverage. Gate, belt, check-in desk and security wait are deepest at Nordic airports; elsewhere you get boards, gate and terminal where published, and the live map. Rights information is information, not legal advice. Live data needs a connection. CREDITS Full credits for data, maps and photos: airwaycontrol.intelsystems.ai/credits
OpsDeck Crew Ops
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OpsDeck replaces the crew WhatsApp group with one shared, live flight. Pilots, cabin crew, handling and operations see the same flight page. Every step of the turnaround is one tap on a checklist — at the terminal, crew on board, fueling, catering, passengers on board, doors closed, takeoff, landing, flight complete. Everyone involved gets a notification, ops sees the progress in real time, and nobody has to type "we are on board" into a chat again. BUILT FOR FLIGHT OPERATIONS • The flight, not a chat, is the centre: flight number, aircraft, route, STD/STA in UTC, passengers, crew by seat (PIC, FO, FA, handling) • Company checklist in phases — your admin decides the items, who checks them, and which are optional • Countdown to departure with colour cues, and "needs attention" when something is waiting • Undo any entry, mark items N/A, add text where it matters (defects, crew report) • Photos on any item — cabin, catering, defects REQUESTS WITH REAL ANSWERS • Ops asks, crew answers — and the other way round • Answer types: acknowledge, time, number, yes/no, choice, text • Answer straight from the notification, without opening the app • One request, one answer — no duplicate replies; you see who has seen it • Company templates for the questions you ask every day WORKS WHERE CREW WORK • No network on the stand? Every tap is queued on the phone with its real time and sent when the connection is back • Presence: see who is in the app, who was here minutes ago, who has notifications off • Contacts of your crew and ops one tap away FLIGHT REPORT • After "Flight complete", a full report — checklist with times, requests and answers, crew reports, defects, photos — goes to the company email automatically • Anyone can get the reports of their own flights by email; PDF on the phone in one tap FOR THE COMPANY • Invite-only: ops adds people and shares a personal code — no public sign-up • Roles: pilot, cabin, ops, handling, observer (read-only for management) • Admin change log: who changed the checklist, templates, people or settings, and when • English and Russian interface, notifications in each person's language OpsDeck is for airlines, charter and business-jet operators. An invite code from your company is required to sign in. To set OpsDeck up for your company, write to info@flightservice.net.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpsDeck Crew Ops at none against AirwayControl's 1. AirwayControl's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. AirwayControl sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. OpsDeck Crew Ops asks for nothing beyond the download.
AirwayControl ships an update every 5 days, OpsDeck Crew Ops every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AirwayControl | OpsDeck Crew Ops |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christopher Svendsen | Flight Service SIA |
In-app purchases
AirwayControl
- AirwayControl7 Days trial$1.991 Month
OpsDeck Crew Ops
No in-app purchases
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