Our mission
Boarding Time exists because travel planning has become unnecessarily complicated. Open a typical travel website and you're met with cookie banners, affiliate funnels, pop-ups asking for your email, sponsored hotel results disguised as recommendations and a stack of ads that take longer to render than the page itself. We wanted a single place that does the opposite — quick, focused, free utilities that answer the most common travel questions in seconds and then get out of your way.
Every tool we publish is designed around one rule: a traveller standing in an airport queue, with shaky Wi-Fi and one bar of battery, should be able to land on the page and have the answer they need within five seconds. That constraint shapes the entire site — fast loading, minimal JavaScript, no sign-up walls, no upsells. If a feature gets in the way of the answer, it doesn't ship.
What we cover
The toolkit is deliberately narrow. We don't try to be a booking engine, a review site, or a guidebook. We focus on the practical, repeatable questions that frequent travellers encounter on every single trip:
- Weather — current conditions and a 7-day forecast for anywhere in the world, with travel-relevant signals like UV index, “feels like” temperature and rain probability.
- Currency — live mid-market exchange rates between 25 travel currencies, so you know whether a bureau de change is offering a fair rate.
- Time zones — dual live clocks and an overlap view to make scheduling calls or family check-ins across the world simple.
- Power adapters — plug type, voltage and frequency for any destination country.
- Packing list — trip-type-specific checklists with progress tracking.
- Flight delay compensation — a calculator that tells you, in seconds, whether you're owed money under UK261 or EU261, and how much.
- Free, in-depth guides and a regularly updated blog covering airline rights, money abroad, jet lag, packing, time zones and more.
How we're independent
Boarding Time is independently run. We don't accept payment for placement, we don't take a commission on flight compensation claims (unlike many third-party claims companies, which keep 25–35% of your payout), and we don't sell user data. The site is funded by display advertising via Google AdSense and, in future, by clearly marked affiliate links to genuinely useful products such as travel insurance or eSIMs — never to influence which tool or piece of advice we publish.
Where we recommend a service (for example, a digital travel card like Wise, Revolut or Starling in our currency guide), the recommendation is based on actual fees, exchange-rate behaviour and traveller experience. If we ever add an affiliate link, it will be disclosed at the top of the page that contains it.
How the tools work
Boarding Time is a statically rendered Next.js application hosted on Vercel. Data sources are chosen carefully for reliability and travel relevance:
- Weather data is drawn from Open-Meteo's global meteorological feeds.
- Currency rates are mid-market rates refreshed regularly throughout the trading day.
- Power adapter data is curated from IEC and national standards bodies, cross-checked against manufacturer documentation.
- Flight delay compensation logic follows the published text of UK261 (Retained Regulation EC 261/2004) and EU Regulation 261/2004, including the case law on extraordinary circumstances.
The site is fully crawlable, includes an XML sitemap and an llms.txt file, and exposes machine-readable agent skills under /.well-known/agent-skills/for AI assistants that want to consult the toolkit on a user's behalf.
Editorial standards
Guides and blog posts are written and reviewed by people who travel regularly — not generated wholesale by AI and pushed live without review. We use AI assistance for first drafts and research, but every published article is human-edited for accuracy, tone and traveller relevance. Where a piece references a regulation, allowance or rate, the source is named in the text so you can verify it independently.
Content is revisited periodically. Power-adapter, baggage and security rules change; airlines update their allowances; new travel cards launch and old ones change their fees. If you spot something out of date, please email us — we update the site quickly.
Privacy, cookies and ads
Boarding Time uses Google AdSense to display ads and Google Analytics 4 to understand which tools and guides are useful. We do not require an account, we don't store personal information beyond what Google's services collect on our behalf, and we never sell data to third parties. For full details see our Privacy Policy.
Contact
For feedback, corrections, partnership enquiries or anything else: email hello@boardingtime.co, or use the contact page. We try to reply within two working days.