Real-time tracking of US bound flights

December 4th, 2005 at 10:38am

My wife is finally on her way to US as I write this post. Her trip was postponed many a times. But now things have been sorted out. She would be reaching Houston on Sunday.

The good thing is, I can track all her flights online. And that too in real time! And if its a US bound flight, I also get to see a graphical view (map kind) of where the flight is, its altitude, speed, distance travelled, ETA etc.

There are lot of sites which offer this facility of flight tracking. But most of it seems to have some kind of common back end.

Here are a few of them which I use:

1. Google! – Just key in the flight no, and it gives you an option to track the flight on TraveloCity or Expedia or fboweb.com (When you reach this site via Google, it also lets you track the flight in Google Earth, which is too cool!)

2. FlightArrivals.com – this one too is pretty cool. Doesn’t show a graphical map, but is updated often and the details are pretty good.

3. There are tons of other sites which let you track US bound flights. (FlightView.com, FlightExplorer.com, Aeroseek, Flytecomm)

Apart from the above, most of the airlines let you track their flight from their homepage itself.

Hope this info helps.

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