three best sites for tracking flight status

August 11th, 2006

There are so many flight tracking sites, you prob don’t know which one to use, this article will show you the three best.

FlightStats.com uses flash based user interface, gives pretty complete details and a google map to show actual location of the plane when it is within North America.

Flightaware.com uses a lot of AJAX to make pretty slick user interface.  It gives amazing details of flight info from FAA, such as actual/esimated flight speed, altitude, remaining distance etc. It is pretty similar to what you normally see on those international flights. Another neat touch is it kept statistics about airport, they have some nice charts!

Flightarrivals.com is the barebone flight info site, plain and simple, (it looks like a J2EE based app, you can even see .do in its page url)  it lists flight based on airport, or airline within a few hour range, if you just want the basics, this is prob what you need.

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