CabinLink reads the flight data your airline's WiFi has been broadcasting all along: position, altitude, speed, ETA, and destination weather. Vishrut Jha, an ASU computer science student, noticed the manifest was sitting there for any app to parse and built native layouts for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro — not a blown-up phone view.
🔥 Our Take: Airlines have served this data to their own seat-back maps for years. The WiFi manifest was always accessible to anything on the network. Jha just built the native app nobody else did, and it works on most major carriers without a paid WiFi pass. That's a lot of polish for something most people would have left as a browser trick.