Max is only days away…Sunday is opening and for some of us, a full day of training. As you deplane into either Ohare International Airport or Midway Airport, take a second look at the flight arrival and departure screens. As you go to pick up your luggage from baggage claim, take a good look at the LCD monitors above the baggage claim announcing which flight is unloading at that conveyor belt. Take a good look – because this is an early rendition of what the market is going crazy over right now – and a key part of the MAX conference. What you’re looking at is FIDS – Flight Information Display System – but more importantly – it’s a Rich Internet Application. No, we didn’t do it in Flex – this was way before Flex came to maturity. Original interface was done by Todd Marks in AS 1.0 and Flash! He talks about it in his chapter in New Masters of Flash. We had the great opportunity to rearchitect the application in AS 2.0 – again in Flash, not Flex…
Now FIDS is in most airports across the U.S. and has even been deployed internationally, such as in Quwait. Enjoy!
