Introducing Jumpseat: The Flight App We Waited 15 Years to Build

Hi everyone, I’m Josh, co-founder of Jumpseat.

Our team has spent more than 15 years working in flight tracking and aviation software, but Jumpseat is also a very personal project for us. It grew from an idea we had years ago and never quite let go of: that flying should feel less fragmented, and that the journeys connecting people deserve a product of their own.

We’re here not only to introduce Jumpseat, but to learn from people across travel technology, aviation, tourism and media. Honest feedback, difficult questions and early-beta curiosity are all very welcome.

The flight app we waited 15 years to build.

More than 15 years ago, our co-founder Alex went looking for a simple way to share flights with friends.

A place where you could follow each other’s journeys, know when someone was taking off or landing, and keep the memories made along the way. He couldn’t find it. At the time, the idea was ahead of the technology. Flight data was too fragmented and unreliable to build the experience properly.

That search is also how the four of us found each other. We had all spent years using different flight trackers, looking for something better, and even working together on flight-tracking products in the past.

Panos had already taken an early run at that vision. More than a decade ago, he co-founded Flying, a social app for frequent flyers created to bring some of the glamour back to air travel.

Across those different paths, we kept seeing the same gap: flight data was getting better, but the experience for travelers was not. Today, Josh shapes product and design, Patryk oversees development as our CTO, Alex drives product and the business, and Panos is responsible for marketing and growth.

And now, the timing is right. Jumpseat starts with the utility travelers need most. We obsessed over speed, especially for gate changes, delays and cancellations. We cared just as much about the experience around that data, because flight software does not have to feel like flight software.

Every flight, better shared

Jumpseat keeps your flights, updates and travel history together in one beautifully designed app.

Then it goes further. Follow friends. See where they are flying. Share photos and travel moments. Like and comment on their journeys. Build a living history of every route, airport and memory. Think Strava for flying: genuinely useful on your own, even better when your people are there. Because flights are not just logistics. They are holidays, homecomings, work trips, reunions and adventures. They are life events in motion. Jumpseat gives those moments a home.

👉 Check out our community map at app.withjumpseat.com/community

🎉 Jumpseat is now live on the App Store. Download it, add your next flight and make every journey count: apps.apple.com/us/app/jumpseat-social-flight-log/id6757955101

Looking forward to meeting more of the Travel Massive community!

PS: For the Travel Massive community: the first 500 members can claim three months of Jumpseat World free: tmsv.co/jumpseat_3_months_free

Looks good

I've been using Flightmemory for many years. The one thing I'm remiss about is not having inputted aircraft registration (this dates back decades). Could Jumpseat do anything about that, as long as I have the correct date of travel?