Stop checking the board. Type a flight code and a small always-on-top Windows widget tracks it live: status, scheduled / estimated / actual times, delay, terminal and gate, a countdown to take-off, in-flight progress (altitude and speed), arrival gate and baggage belt. When something changes you get a native Windows notification, so you can keep working at the gate.

• Departure board look: flight number, gate and terminal on split-flap tiles that flip when a value changes, an arc route with the plane moving along it, a countdown ring, a glow in the status colour.
• Notifications (Windows toasts) when:
  • the gate is assigned or changes
  • departure moves by 5 minutes or more
  • take-off is 45 minutes away ("Boarding soon") and 25 minutes away ("Gate closing soon")
  • the flight takes off, lands, is cancelled or diverted, or the baggage belt is assigned
• Collapse to a strip with the = button, expand again from the strip.
• Hide to tray with the × button: the widget keeps refreshing and keeps notifying you. Click the plane icon in the notification area to bring it back; hover it for gate and status.
• Smart refresh: every 30 s in the last 90 minutes before take-off, 45 s in flight, less often otherwise.
• English by default, Italian available from the right-click menu.
• No API key, no account.

Windows 10/11 with Python 3.10+ (tkinter is included in the python.org installer).

git clone https://github.com/Glaas-TNQ/flight-widget.git
cd flight-widget
pip install -r requirements.txt

pythonw flight_widget.py FR2670

or double-click run.bat (pass the flight code as an argument, or leave it out and the widget asks for one; it remembers the last code). For a quick look at the data in the terminal: python fr24.py FR2670.

Settings live in %APPDATA%\FlightWidget\config.json. If notifications don't show up, check that Do Not Disturb is off.

• fr24.py fetches the flight from Flightradar24's public web endpoints: flight/list.json for the flight instances (times, status, aircraft), the airport schedule for terminal, gate and belt, and the live feed for altitude and speed. It picks the instance that matters now: the one in the air, one that landed in the last 90 minutes, or the next one.
• render.py draws the card with Pillow, supersampled 2x for antialiasing, using the Bahnschrift font that ships with Windows.
• flight_widget.py shows it in a borderless Tk window with rounded corners (transparent colour key), handles dragging, buttons, the tray icon (pystray) and the toasts (PowerShell + WinRT, no extra dependency).

Times are shown in the local time of the relevant airport. When there is no estimated arrival but the departure is delayed, the arrival is shown as scheduled + delay and marked with ~.

This is a personal side project, not affiliated with Flightradar24. It relies on unofficial, undocumented endpoints that can change or stop working at any time, and the data belongs to Flightradar24 AB: use it for personal tracking only and check their terms before doing anything else with it. Always trust the airport screens and your airline over this widget.

Built with Claude Code by Luca Tomasino.

MIT, see LICENSE.