Downloading the app would be beneficial in a situation like this.

This is a useful warning, even for someone as paranoid about double checking things as me. The sad fact is that the warning is needed at all. Information provision should be much better than this.

Yeah, I only ever rely on the airlines app and download it for whatever airline I'm flying on - it will always have the most up to date information and usually will send alerts if there are any changes to the flight schedule.

I've seen the Ryanair app mess up gates. More than once.

What I don't understand is the OP seems to be saying the board in the food court was wrong but a different one was right? How does that happen? I'd expect all the boards to be fed from one data feed.

#5, from what the OP said it wasn't only the board in the food outlet that had the wrong information... but also the screen that the check-in agents were looking at. It sounds to me like some feed/connection got .broken.

As regards relying on an app... an app could just as easily show wrong/outdated information as a screen at the airport. And, as a matter of principle, I think it's totally wrong to expect everybody to have smartphones and use apps.

But the desk agent would have been earlier. It may have been correct at the time.

The app info is directly from the airline, the board information is sourced from the airline then loaded onto the airport boards, so another layer of potential faults.

The apps have never let me down and if there is a delay or cancellation I get notified immediately and am heading to the counter straight away to make alternative arrangements instead of finding out later and standing in a huge queue - has got me out of quite a few possible dramas.

I’ve been caught out with both Ryanair and Easyjet telling me i had a considerable delay (2 hours plus) and deciding to order a meal, only or them to decide to swir=tech aircraft or whatever and the delay was all of a sudden only Hal an hour and they were starting boarding. had to abandon my meal and scarper.

Now when I’m told there is a delay, I just buy a sandwich and bottled drink so I can shift if it changes. the exception is if it is weather delays and I can see nothing is currently departing or arriving and we are definitely going nowhere for a long time.

I have never seen different departure boards showing different information about a flight at the same time. Yes they may change as changes are made to the flight departure time but all will change

I have to say that when advised at check in that there will be a delay of three hours you do tend to believe them and you would expect even in an airport that doesn't usually make announcements that if the flight is bought forward that announcements would be made after all most people do not continually study the departures boards