Flight Aware lets you map airline flights around the world

Flight Aware screenshot

There are numerous flight trackers online which let #avgeeks track flights on every speck of the globe.

I’m a fan of Flight Aware, although am too cheap and not that plane obsessed that I subscribe to their premium service, but if you’re a hardcore airplane fan, you might want to consider it.

Click on one of the thousands of plane icons on Flight Aware map and you get information about the flight’s point of origin and destination along with vital flight data and other details about the plane and its flight history.

While I was grounded from travel during the pandemic, I would like to call up Flight Aware to look at the flights around me and in exotic locales to imagine what it was like to be flying again. Whenever a plane would fly overhead, I’d check to see where it was coming from or where it was going to and envied those aboard.

If you’re curious about the ebb and flow of flights around the world, then Flight Aware is a great tool to turn you into a planespotter. Or you can simply use it to track the flights of friends and family as they finally fly to reunite with each other.

https://flightaware.com/live/

Escape inspires you with lowest flight prices

There is no shortage of websites out there to shop for airfares. Escape’s sole purpose is to show you the cheapest flights available from any city over a specified date range.

Search results are displayed on a map and the bottom of the screen shows you the cheapest flight by continent.

I’ve encountered other sites that work similarly, but I like the site’s narrow focus, because who doesn’t like to pay the least possible when they fly? My only disappointment was I didn’t actually find any flights that were all that cheap on the dates I wanted to travel!

https://greatescape.co/

IATA Travel Centre checks your travel documents

The IATA Travel Centre is a handy website from the international trade association that governs air travel. Feed it your itinerary and it will tell you whether your travel documents are sufficient or whether you need a visa. It can also give you lots of useful travel information about things like currency, airports, travel with pets and lots more.

http://www.iatatravelcentre.com/

Flyover Country lets you identify what you see from your airplane window on the ground below.

Flyover Country lets you identify what you see from your airplane window on the ground below.