You have the flight, you pulled it up, and FlightSide told you which side to pick. Until now that was the whole exchange. The recommendation arrived with nothing around it, so you either trusted it or you did not, with no way to check that the answer was built on the flight you are actually taking.
This update adds that missing context. Set a route and FlightSide now shows the two cities and key details about the flight underneath the map, next to the seat call rather than instead of it.
Did you set up the right airport?
Airport codes are easy to get slightly wrong. There are two Londons before you even leave England, a handful of cities that share a name across countries, and three-letter codes that look alike at a glance. A seat recommendation built on the wrong airport is worse than no recommendation, because it looks just as confident.
Each city now shows its name, country, and flag, so one look confirms the route on screen is the route on your ticket. If it is not, you can tap or click any nearby airport listed under each city. Tap one under your origin and it offers to use that airport as your departure; tap one under your destination and it sets your arrival. The airport swaps straight into the route: the map refits, the recommendation reruns, and the date and time you entered carry over. The fix happens where you noticed the problem, not back in the form.
What the flight actually is
The facts panel reads the flight back to you in plain terms: how far, which way, and what happens to the clock when you land.
The time change is the useful one, and the two city clocks make it easy to read. An afternoon flight from Madrid to Mexico City leaves at 1pm, and the Mexico City card already reads 5am. You do not have to subtract eight hours in your head; the destination clock is sitting right there, and the gap is obvious. The panel states it outright, so a glance tells you whether you are gaining the day back or losing a chunk of it.
A few routes get one extra line when there is something genuinely worth noting: a flight that crosses the International Date Line, or a domestic hop that is somehow longer than New York to London. These show up only when the fact is surprising, not as filler on every route.
Checking the way back
Most trips have a return, and the sunny side is rarely the same in both directions. The cards include a link to flip the route, so once you have sorted the outbound seat you can check the way home without retyping anything. A morning eastbound flight and an afternoon westbound one can end up recommending opposite windows, and now that is one tap apart.
Try it
Pull up your next booked flight and look below the map. Confirm the two cities are the ones you meant, read the arrival time off the second clock instead of doing the math, then flip the route and check the seat for the way back.