What plane am I flying?
Which aircraft, how old, how many seats, what is under the wings — and whether the type has a record worth knowing about. People look this up at the gate anyway. Better to find something calm than a headline.
Aircraft age is almost never the thing to worry about
Aircraft age is the statistic people reach for, and it is close to the least useful one. Airliners are maintained on cycles measured in flight hours and pressurisation cycles, not years, and a twenty-year-old airframe in a rigorous maintenance programme is a completely ordinary thing to fly on. What ages out of an aircraft is the cabin and the fuel economy.
What is actually worth knowing is the type's record in service, the number of them flying, and how long the design has been carrying passengers without incident. FlyBud shows that in plain sentences rather than a number you have to interpret alone.
It also shows you your history: the other times you have flown this exact registration, this type and this airline. Which is a quietly nice thing to discover mid-boarding.
Aircraft questions
How do I find out what plane I'm on?
It is on the booking sometimes, and often wrong there — airlines swap aircraft routinely. FlyBud reads the type and registration actually assigned to the flight and updates when it changes, which is the only way to be sure before boarding.
Does aircraft age matter for safety?
Far less than people assume. Maintenance is driven by flight hours and pressurisation cycles under a regulated programme, not by calendar age. Age tells you more about the seats and the entertainment system than about anything structural.
Are some aircraft types safer than others?
Modern large airliners are all extraordinarily safe, and the differences between current types are small enough that they are swamped by everything else. What FlyBud reports is the record in service, described plainly, so you are reading context rather than a ranking.
Why does the aircraft sometimes change?
Because the schedule is built around a fleet, not around individual aircraft, and a technical issue or a delay elsewhere gets absorbed by swapping one in. It is routine, and FlyBud tells you when it happens.
Find out at the gate.
Or the night before, which is usually better.