MyFlight—An automated service for real-time aircraft position and communication status

A method for displaying real-time aircraft information to a user traveling on an inflight aircraft consisting of the steps of:

• providing a third party aircraft subscription service to an aircraft owner or operator to allow a user on the subscribing aircraft to access inflight aircraft position and cabin status data over time corresponding to the subscribing aircraft internet router MAC address from the third party subscription service provider;
• directly connecting with the aircraft installed internet router consisting of a unique MAC address onboard the subscribing aircraft from a user mobile communication device;
• launching a subscriber based aircraft status application on the user mobile communication device,
• the aircraft status application provided by the third party aircraft subscription service provider,
• the service provided limited to continuously accessing aircraft position and cabin status directly in response to the subscribing aircraft internet router MAC address from the third party aircraft subscription service provider;
• automatically initiating a communication from the user mobile communication device through the aircraft internet router to a host at a ground network of the third party aircraft subscription service provider in response to launching the aircraft status application,
• the initialization including sending a request for inflight aircraft position and cabin status and the aircraft internet router MAC address;
• inputting at the ground network the received aircraft internet router MAC address to a database for matching with a MAC address of said inflight aircraft;
• on obtaining a match from said database continuously locating and compiling position and cabin status data by the host at the ground network for said aircraft;
• transmitting the inflight aircraft position report and cabin status from the ground network to the user mobile communication device for display on the user mobile communication device.