Really cool flight information tool
I saw this in an article in The New York Times (slow day at work, our development network is down). It's a site called http://flightstats.com/ which does what it says on the tin, gives copious flight information listed by route, or by airport, or by flight. For example, it appears almost every flight from Heathrow to Glasgow Airport so far today has taken off 10 minutes late (no surprise there). As the original NYT articles says, it is 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. Another big plus is that this is all in one place, no hunting around various different airline and airport web sites to find particular flight info.
The article also gave some bad news for anyone heading to Los Angeles, as I will be doing in a couple of weeks,
By the way, have you heard that as of last Sunday, Los Angeles International Airport shut down one of its four runways for construction, reducing operational capacity by 25 percent at one of the world's most important airports, with no reduction in flights?
Marvelous :-(
Checking on FlightStats seems to bear that out, I checked my planned route, LHR to LAX, for yesterday, and 8 out of 10 of flights were delayed, varying from 27 minutes to 71 minutes.
The article also gave some bad news for anyone heading to Los Angeles, as I will be doing in a couple of weeks,
By the way, have you heard that as of last Sunday, Los Angeles International Airport shut down one of its four runways for construction, reducing operational capacity by 25 percent at one of the world's most important airports, with no reduction in flights?
Marvelous :-(
Checking on FlightStats seems to bear that out, I checked my planned route, LHR to LAX, for yesterday, and 8 out of 10 of flights were delayed, varying from 27 minutes to 71 minutes.