The flight app we waited 15 years to build.

You check when they leave. You notice when the arrival time slips. You picture the gate, the long walk through the terminal, the moment their message finally says, “Landed.” Flights look like routes and numbers on a screen, but we rarely follow them for the data. We follow because somebody matters to us.

More than 15 years ago, our co-founder Alex imagined a place where those journeys could be shared as naturally as any other part of life. A timeline for flights. A way to follow friends across the world, stay close while they were moving, and keep the memories that came home with them.

The idea was simple: make every flight feel shared. The technology could not support it yet.

Flight data was fragmented, delayed, and often unreliable. So the idea stayed with us while we spent the next 15 years working inside flight tracking and aviation software, learning what the data could do, where it broke, and what travelers actually needed when plans changed.

Then the data caught up with the idea.

Today we can build the utility first: precise flight information, useful alerts, and a living history of the places you have been. But the reason for building Jumpseat goes beyond knowing whether a flight is on time. We want every journey to feel connected to the people waiting at the other end.

Flights are not just movement.

They are holidays beginning, families returning, work pulling us away, and home bringing us back.

Jumpseat is the flight app we wanted all those years ago: useful when you travel alone, and more meaningful when the people around you are part of it.

Tracking a flight is sometimes just another way of saying: I'm with you.