Keeping tabs on flights arriving in or departing from the UK usually means hours stuck in front of a TV screen or monitor. Wouldn't it be great if wherever you were, whatever you were doing, your flight information was literally at your fingertips?

Freshly launched on the 'Extras' pages at www.thomson.co.uk, AirText is the new service that delivers live information about your flight directly to your mobile phone, including vital detail such as check-in and boarding gate number, '1 Hour Away' report and real-time updates on delays or cancellations.

Thomson's Head of New Media Sales and Operations, Neil Swanson commented, "Information on customer's flights delivered direct to their mobile phone is a really useful service that I am pleased Thomson can offer in partnership with AirText."

Thomson is the UK's leading travel company which offers a vast range of holiday types and destinations which are sold through its shop network, digital TV channel, call centre and website.