About QFSN.com

Hello, and welcome to QFSN.com—a passion project born from my experiences as a volunteer at Sky Harbor Airport. When passengers would ask for flight information, I noticed there were several approaches my fellow volunteers used. Some would send them to the airport’s flight information displays, while others used different online resources like the airport’s website, Google, FlightStats, or FlightAware.

I didn’t like directing people to a big screen. Sometimes they couldn’t find the flight they were looking for, or they had follow-up questions that required more details. So, I began looking up flights on my own mobile device. However, searching on my phone introduced its own issues—it was difficult to narrow the results to just flights going in or out of Sky Harbor. Even the airport’s own website—often the most accurate—could be cumbersome and occasionally produced redundant answers. I wanted a simpler, more direct way to find flight details in a single place.

That’s when I built a simple webpage that relied on the airport’s site to do the heavy lifting. It worked, but it was quirky, so I kept it mostly to myself. Then, the airport launched a redesigned website, and my tool broke. Determined to create a more robust solution, I discovered I could access the data directly and see how it was structured. I wanted to automate the search process, but my skills at the time didn’t stretch to building a complete web application.

I realized I needed to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Flask, AWS, nginx —and more. I’d watched some Python tutorials and dabbled in code, but turning scattered knowledge into a fully functional site was a steep learning curve. Eventually, I managed to put together some Python scripts that effectively searched the data, but I still lacked the know-how to deploy a production-ready application.

After more than a year of experimenting and learning, I finally got a primitive version working online. My next hurdle was making it reliable and user-friendly enough to share with other volunteers. Through trial and error, YouTube tutorials, and countless hours of troubleshooting, I managed to deploy the site on one of my domains using AWS. I admit that I didn’t fully understand the hosting environment at first, which made it tough to update and fix bugs. But once I had a functional version online, everything started to click. I could iterate on the design and add new features more confidently. In the past year alone, I’ve made over 35 updates, refining functionality, boosting performance, and improving usability.

Now, QFSN.com is the easiest and quickest way to find flight information for Sky Harbor. It’s also packed with ways to search for details you can’t easily get anywhere else. I hope you find it as helpful as I do—and if you’re a fellow volunteer, I hope it helps you provide even better assistance to travelers. Thank you for visiting, and I look forward to continually improving QFSN.com for all of us!