{"id":8468,"date":"2022-11-01T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2022-11-02T06:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:58:54","slug":"text-flight-numbers-to-people-youre-visiting-so-they-can-track-your-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/text-flight-numbers-to-people-youre-visiting-so-they-can-track-your-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Flight Numbers to People You\u2019re Visiting So They Can Track Your Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you\u2019re flying to visit your Apple-using family or friends, send them your flight number using Messages when you leave. Then they can easily track your flight in the air and see when you\u2019re arriving. Just text them the flight number prefixed with the airline\u2019s abbreviation, like AA for American Airlines, AC for Air Canada, BA for British Air, DL for Delta, or UA for United Airlines. If Messages recognizes the flight number, it will underline it to indicate that tapping or clicking will bring up the current flight information. This feature also helps you extract more information from a texted flight status update that an airline sends to you. If you know a flight number but don\u2019t have it in Messages, you can get the same information on the Mac using Spotlight (press Command-Space). On an iPhone or iPad, use the&nbsp; Search feature (pull down on the Home screen).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9480\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/text-flight-numbers-to-people-youre-visiting-so-they-can-track-your-flight-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/text-flight-numbers-to-people-youre-visiting-so-they-can-track-your-flight-2.jpg 980w, https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/text-flight-numbers-to-people-youre-visiting-so-they-can-track-your-flight-3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by iStock.com\/SamAntonioPhotography)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you\u2019re flying to visit your Apple-using family or friends, send them your flight number using Messages when you leave. Then they can easily track your flight in the air and see when you\u2019re arriving. Just text them the flight number prefixed with the airline\u2019s abbreviation, like AA for American Airlines, AC for Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8484,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions\/8484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}