Aviation Geeks — live flight tracker
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Aircraft guides by ICAO code, airline seat maps, notable flight numbers with on-time history, and cheap fares tracked daily from 144 airports.
Aircraft guides
Cheap flights from
- London (LHR) · 36 routes
- New York (JFK) · 34 routes
- Los Angeles (LAX) · 24 routes
- Singapore (SIN) · 18 routes
- Miami (MIA) · 16 routes
- Hong Kong (HKG) · 15 routes
- Paris (CDG) · 14 routes
- Frankfurt (FRA) · 14 routes
- Chicago (ORD) · 14 routes
- San Francisco (SFO) · 14 routes
- Sydney (SYD) · 14 routes
- Dubai (DXB) · 13 routes
- All tracked routes →
Notable flights
Guides & seat maps
- Fifth-freedom flights, explained
- Squawk 7700, 7600 and 7500: what emergency squawk codes mean
- How to track a flight: flight numbers, callsigns and tail numbers
- What counts as an on-time flight? The 15-minute rule, explained
- How ADS-B flight tracking works (and why some planes don't show)
- E175, E75L and E75S: what the Embraer E175 codes mean
- Airline seat maps →
- Airlines: fleets, flights & fares →
- Data reports: on-time rankings & fare drops →
How the live flight tracker works▾
This is a live flight tracker. When you follow a flight, the map shows the aircraft's current position, the path it has already flown, and a dashed great-circle line pointing to its destination. The flown trace is colored by altitude, so a glance tells you where the aircraft climbed and descended, and the great-circle line is simply the shortest route over the curve of the Earth, which is why it can look curved on a flat map.
Aircraft positions come from ADS-B, a signal most airliners broadcast continuously that reports their GPS position, altitude and speed. A community network of volunteer receivers picks up those broadcasts and pools them through adsb.lol, the open data source this map is built on. Flight schedules and airframe details, such as the route, scheduled times, aircraft model and registration, come from AeroDataBox.
To start, search a flight number, for example LX318, or an aircraft's tail number, also called its registration, for example HB-JDD. You can also click any aircraft on the map to follow it. Use the date picker to pull up a flight from an earlier day, and drag the playback bar to replay a journey from takeoff, sped up if you like.
A few limits are worth knowing. On the free tier, tracking history reaches back only about the last 24 hours. Coverage depends on how many volunteer receivers are nearby, so remote regions and oceans can have gaps. And nothing shown here is intended for navigation or any other operational use.