They can also go to the airport, pull up the app and see what’s coming. “Another use case are folks who are very interested in aviation, or really like to follow certain types of aircraft. Outside of major events, however, the number of people tracking flights is constantly on the rise: “We see a lot of people using the site to track a loved one, track their own flight, or find the incoming flight that they’re going to be on later that day, to make sure the plane’s coming,” says Petchenik. 📡 /YRX圎duTok- Flightradar24 September 6, 2017 Where others have turned back, Delta #DL431 presses on.

The January 2021 flight was tracked by 550,000 people, beating an earlier record set in April 2020, when almost 200,000 users watched a Boeing 777 draw the crescent and star symbols of the Turkish national flag in the skies above Ankara, to celebrate Turkey’s 100th anniversary of sovereignty.īefore then, in September 2017, thousands had watched a brave Delta Boeing 737 fly right into hurricane Irma to land in Puerto Rico, and take off 40 minutes later for JFK by carefully positioning itself in the gaps between the hurricane’s arms. The A380's biggest supporter is asking Airbus to build a new super jumboīefore Pelosi’s flight, the record for the most tracked flight on Flightradar24 belonged to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s return trip to Russia, where he was due to be imprisoned. “The number of visitors we received would have crashed the website, so our saving grace was that there was nothing to show but a hole.” It first gathered global recognition in 2010, when the eruption of an Icelandic volcano grounded thousands of flights and attracted four million visitors: “That was certainly our first foray into international events, and how displaying air traffic to the public in real time could influence how people were thinking about world news,” says Petchenik. The website, part of a group of popular flight-tracking services along with FlightAware and Plane Finder, was founded in Sweden in 2006 “completely by accident,” says FlightRadar24’s director of communications, Ian Petchenik, as a way to drive traffic to a flight price comparison service. As a result, it was the most tracked flight of all time on Flightradar24, with 2.92 million people following at least a portion of the seven-hour journey.

That didn’t make it immediately obvious what the final destination would be, sparking online conversations as the plane slowly veered north towards the island. The plane, a military version of the Boeing 737 called C-40, departed from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia before embarking on a circuitous path to Taiwan, in order to avoid encounters with the Chinese military, adding hours of flight time. When a US Air Force plane carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan in early August, over 700,000 people witnessed the event as it happened, via flight-tracking service Flightradar24. That’s now reaching far beyond aviation enthusiasts. An ADS-B receiver manufactured by Flightradar24.

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