FlightStats — Real Time Airline Info
Joe Sharkey writes about FlightStats in The New York Times. This is cool stuff.
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Trust me, it is the real deal — an agglomeration of real-time information on the status of just about every airline flight in the world (including code shares), as well as conditions, including departure and takeoff times for flights, at more than 900 airports and 420 airlines worldwide.
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Essentially, every airport arrival and departures board is available in real time. (There is no fee.). There is also a wealth of historical and predictive data showing, say, what conditions are likely to be at any airport in the next 10 days. There are links that send alerts to travelers three hours before a flight time. Corporate travel managers can use one of the site’s features to monitor, in real time, the air travel status of employees on the road