TECHNOLOGY
Connected passenger experience fuels a 205% revenue growth for Mileways through reliable flight data
By integrating the Cirium Sky APIs, Mileways has enhanced its app with reliable flight data and real-time push alerts.
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Mileways is a next-generation flight tracking app designed to enhance the air travel experience by providing real-time flight information and fostering social connectivity between travellers. Personal and business travellers alike can view and share flights status details and updates with friends and family in-app. The Mileways app has been downloaded 300,000 times and has 150,000 subscribers since 2021.
Business Challenge
Today’s travelers have higher expectations. Frequent flyers, business travelers and tech-savvy passengers demand seamless, reliable and proactive updates about their journeys.
Flight disruptions can significantly impact the travel experience and app providers such as Mileways need to notify, replan and reassure their customers during delays, cancellations and/or airport issues. Additionally, flight data is often delayed, inconsistent and varies between sources. Mileways required reliable flight information to provide an accurate and seamless user experience.
Solutions
Mileways and similar businesses can leverage Cirium Sky APIs to seamlessly integrate accurate, real-time and historical flight data into their apps. This includes flight status updates, alerts, tracking, schedules and predicted arrival times. By harnessing Cirium’s reliable aviation insights, Mileways can deliver timely alerts and notifications, keeping travelers, as well as their friends and families informed.
“Integrating Cirium’s advanced flight data into the Mileways app plays a critical role in ensuring that we deliver accurate, real-time, and reliable flight tracking for our users. As a social flight tracker, our app thrives on keeping travellers and their networks seamlessly informed about flight statuses, potential delays, and arrival times. Our flight data is foundational to Mileways’ functionality, enabling a trustworthy and engaging travel companion for our users.”
Alexander Lueck, Co-Founder, Mileways
Results
Implementing the Cirium Sky API’s has enabled Mileways to provide reliable flight data and push-based alerts to its app users.
By integrating the Cirium Sky APIs, Mileways has enhanced its app with reliable flight data and real-time push alerts. This has driven organic growth, resulting in a +73% year-over-year increase in downloads since early 2024 and an impressive 205% boost in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
Mileways has seen app adoption grow organically, and since the beginning of 2024 it has experienced a +73% increase in downloads YoY and a 205% increase in ARR.
