Flight tracking
An aircraft’s ADS-B transponder is transmitting the position from the onboard flight computer, which in most modern aircraft comes from GPS data and is very...
Mon, 12 Sep, 2022 at 5:14 PM
A flight number and a call sign serve different purposes in aviation and follow different standards: Flight Number Managed by IATA (International Air Tr...
Tue, 12 Nov, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Flightradar24 doesn’t show routes for all flights because route information isn’t directly transmitted by the aircraft. Instead, we receive the flight’s cal...
Fri, 8 Nov, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Aircraft data on Flightradar24 is sourced from a vast database that includes details like registration, Mode-S addresses, age, and aircraft type. Due to the...
Fri, 8 Nov, 2024 at 1:02 PM
The blue points on the Flightradar24 map indicate airports that have regular, daily scheduled passenger flights within areas where Flightradar24 typically h...
Fri, 8 Nov, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Route information on Flightradar24 may occasionally be incorrect because route data is not transmitted directly from the aircraft. Instead, we receive the c...
Mon, 11 Nov, 2024 at 3:26 PM
We have a statistics widget on the website and app that you can use to view how many flights are being tracked by us at any one time. On the website, you ca...
Thu, 31 Aug, 2023 at 5:03 PM
Much of the coverage on Flightradar24 is based on flight data from so-called ADS-B receivers around the world. If you want to improve the coverage in your a...
Mon, 12 Sep, 2022 at 5:27 PM
Flightradar24 is a network of receivers around the world. Some receivers are online 24/7 and others are only online from time to time. There are many reason...
Mon, 12 Sep, 2022 at 5:28 PM
In some cases, we receive advance delay information, but we do not have any information about the reason for the delay. For all questions about delays ...
Mon, 12 Sep, 2022 at 5:19 PM