Filtering Flights by Date, Airline, and Airport

This is one of those features that seems simple but completely changes how you see your data. You can filter your flight map and statistics by pretty much anything: date range, specific airline, specific airport, cabin class, aircraft type.

Filter to just your Qantas flights? Suddenly you see your actual Qantas network. Filter to just 2024 and you can see exactly where you travelled last year. Filter to just business class flights and you might be shocked at how many there actually are.

But here's where it gets interesting. Filter to flights departing Sydney in business class before 9 AM. Now you're looking at a very specific slice of your flying life. Some people find out they take the same route way more often than they thought. Others discover they've got a whole category of trips they'd forgotten about.

The map updates in real-time as you filter, so you watch your flight history reshape itself.

Achievement Badges and Milestone Tracking

Jetmap celebrates your flying with milestone badges. You get them for distance (100,000 km, 500,000 km, 1 million km), for flight count (50 flights, 100 flights, 500 flights, 1,000 flights), and for exploration achievements like visiting specific numbers of continents or flying rare aircraft types.

Now, you might think "okay, that's just gamification fluff." But here's the thing: they actually work. People tell us all the time that hitting a milestone badge made them feel something. Not in a cheesy way. Genuinely. You've flown to 1 million kilometres? That's worth acknowledging. You've been on 500 different flights? That's a real accomplishment.

The nice part is they're not competitive. You're not trying to beat anyone else. You're celebrating your own journey. And you can see which milestones you're close to hitting, which gives you a little sense of "oh, I'm almost at 100K km, just need a few more long-hauls."

Aircraft Reunion Tracking

This one's specifically for the aviation enthusiasts, but honestly, once you start paying attention, everyone gets into it.

An "aircraft reunion" is when you fly the same tail number (the registration on the aircraft) twice. So you flew on VH-OJH on a flight to Melbourne in 2022, and then three years later, you find yourself on the same plane again. That's a reunion.

Some people obsess over this. They'll check the tail number on every flight specifically to see if they can chase down a plane they've flown on before. It's become a whole thing in the flight-logging community. Jetmap tracks this automatically. You can see all the aircraft you've had reunions with, how many times, and the dates.

Is it practical? Not really. Is it cool? Absolutely. There's something satisfying about realizing you've shared a long-haul flight with the same aircraft twice in your life.

The Scenario Planner for Frequent Flyer Status

If you're tracking frequent flyer status (and you should be if you fly regularly), the scenario planner is genuinely useful.

Here's what it does: you can add hypothetical flights to see how they'd impact your status credits. So you're thinking about booking a Perth trip in business class, but you want to know if it'll get you to Gold status. You add it as a hypothetical flight, and Jetmap models out the credits you'd earn. Now you know whether that trip is worth it for status purposes.

This is Premium only, but if you're status chasing at all, it pays for itself. You can model different routes, different cabin classes, different times of year. Want to see if booking this route in economy versus business changes the status math? You can see it instantly.

It doesn't save the hypothetical flights to your actual logbook (it's just for planning), but it gives you the information you need to make smarter booking decisions. Some people use it like "okay, I need 500 more credits to hit Platinum. Which route gets me there fastest?"

Public Profile Customization

You can make your Jetmap profile public if you want. Your map, your stats, your flight list all visible to anyone with your profile link. But there's more control here than most people realize.

You don't have to make everything public. You can keep specific flights private even if your overall profile is public. So you could share your aviation journey but hide the flight to that client meeting or the trip you'd rather keep quiet. The notes on individual flights are never public. Those stay private regardless.

Some people get really into sharing. They'll post their profile on Reddit's flight-logging communities or show friends their map. Others use it just to share with family. And plenty of people keep it completely private, which is also totally fine.

The nice thing is it's your choice, and you can change it whenever you want. Want to go public for a month and then switch back? Done. Want to hide specific flights? Done.

Wrapping It Up

None of these are buried features. They're all right there in the interface once you know to look for them. But they're also easy to miss if you're just casually using Jetmap. The filtering alone changes how you think about your flight data. The achievement badges make tracking feel rewarding. The scenario planner turns status-chasing from guesswork into actual strategy.

Go poke around and find them. Then come back and tell us what surprised you, because honestly, everyone discovers something different depending on how they actually use Jetmap.