www.cheaptickets.com
Tired of flying blind? The Internet can give you a bird’s-eye view of scheduled airline flights–while they are in the air.
Of the many travel sites offering real-time flight tracking, one of the most attractive comes courtesy of CheapTickets.com.
Find the FlightTracker in the site’s Travel Resources section. Then enter an airline and flight number. FlightTracker will respond with a drawing of the scheduled route; scheduled departure and landing times; and cockpit-style gauges showing actual airspeed, heading and altitude data.
But the best feature is a sizable map illustrating the plane’s location in flight. Watch as an animated version of the plane passes cities, mountains, lakes and other landmarks as it creeps across the sky en route to its destination.
The site uses Java, so users with faster computers and broadband connections will see the best performance.
