Flight-tracking apps show thousands of planes in real time, but how do they know exactly where each one is? The tech behind ...

FlightAware, Flightradar24 and iMessage can all be used to track flights. You'll need the airline and flight number. Many or all of the products on this page are from partners who compensate us when ...

Why did one million internet users monitor the progress of a seemingly normal flight from Guernsey to Manchester last month?

In-flight moving maps have reshaped air travel by combining live navigation data with entertaining and interactive visual displays. Passengers were once limited to only small overhead monitors showing ...

Amid the hubbub of passengers and planes shuttling in and out of the international airport in Richmond, Virginia, each week there’s also a steady stream of flights bearing men and women in handcuffs.

What a difference a week makes. Last Saturday night, a void opened up on the live map of flights in progress on the tracking service Flightradar24. As US bombers struck targets in Iran, the skies over ...