A flight of imagination helps passengers keep control of their schedule

Zheng Hongfeng, founder and CEO of VariFlight, one of China's top air-data services firms that provides live tracking of 170,000 daily passenger flights or 94 percent of flights globally, said the company is striving to promote a world that is living punctually.

Time is money. As a frequent flyer, who is on business trips more than 200 days a year, Zheng said he recognized the importance in providing accurate and timely data for travelers.

Cooperating with thousands of airlines, airports, agencies and computing data itself, the VariFlight app shows a visualized global air route map, and multiple aviation data like historical on-time performance, aircraft age, type and amenities, boarding gates, the number of baggage claim conveyors and other content to help passengers. The app has been downloaded more than 200 million times.