Everything you need before you board.

Boarding Time is a free, independent travel toolkit. Open a typical travel website today and you're met with cookie banners, paywalls, affiliate funnels, sponsored hotel results and a stack of pop-ups asking for your email. We built the opposite: a single place where the most common pre-flight questions — what's the weather, what's the exchange rate, what plug does Japan use, am I owed compensation for that delay — have a clear answer within seconds, on any device, without an account.

All twelve tools above are free, ad-supported, and require no sign-up. Tools draw on live data sources — global meteorological feeds for weather, mid-market currency rates updated through the trading day, the published text of UK261 and EU261 for delay compensation — and are paired with in-depth guides that explain the why behind the answer. A new blog post is published every week, covering the regulations, money, packing and disruption topics that matter to frequent travellers.

We're independently run. We don't accept payment for placement in tools or guides, and we don't take a commission on flight-compensation claims — unlike many third-party claims companies, which keep 25–35% of your payout. If we ever recommend a product (such as a travel card in our currency guide), the recommendation is based on actual fees and traveller experience, and any affiliate relationship is disclosed on the page that contains it. Read more on the about page.