Google announced on its blog yesterday the launch of a new tool for universal search, the flight status function. All you have to do is search on the airline and the flight number and Google will tell you whether it is delayed or on time and its departure and arrival times. its a useful little tool this one as it removes the need to find the airlines web page and with a lot of people having Google as their homepage or using a tool bar it speeds up the process. I would be interested to see if it cover ALL airlines though and how accurate and frequently updated the information this as this is key. Without accuracy the tool may as well not exist.
