For a private company that was founded in the first quarter of 2005 in Houston, Texas, Flight Aware has grown rapidly to become a household name in the United States; a company offering free services in flight tracking to commercial and private flight traffic of the United States air space. Even though the actual operations began in September of the year 2005, by November of the same year, it had already taken over the internet’s world of flight tracking services as the most preferred and a favorite among all users. Using powerful algorithms to perform its flight tracking services, Flight Aware’s web-based interface is dependable and reliable as can be attested to, by almost all users on the company’s site. This is because of the company’s intuitive, innovative and responsive method of service rendition, and the near accuracy of its data delivery. For now, Flight Aware only tracks all civil or non-military flights within the airspace of all the continental states of the US and may not be able to extend to other states outside the United States conventional boundaries.

Flight Aware so far comes across as the best and most useful in the airline industry and being a free flight tracker, it has state-of-the-art, live flight tracking applications that are in tune with the modern vigorous challenges of the flight world. As a provider of aviation data to all those concerned, Flight Aware is certain that it will soon change the thoughts and perceptions of flight tracking and the way it is done through its free, world-class service. With high precision of Flight Aware’s flight tracking equipment, airport activities can also be tracked by entering the airport code into a search box on Flight Aware’s website. To date, Flight Aware apart from being the most accepted flight tracking service on the web is the pioneer in tracking non-airline and related flights. The excellence of Flight Aware’s aviation data and flight tracking service has earned the company the respect of local and international awards in the airline and media industry, while at the same time earning the patronage of Fortune 500 companies in the airline and non-airline sectors of the US economy.

In terms of flight analysis and aviation statistics, Flight Aware has is all and is poised to develop the current standards to attain an even higher level. At any given hour, Flight Aware is tracking an average of a thousand or more flights that are in progress while it tracks up to fifty thousand arrivals within a twenty four hour period. Since it began operations in September 2005, Flight Aware has successfully tracked about 44.8 million flights which are logged into the company’s database. For flight tracking requests on Flight Aware’s website, there are more than 750,000 flight tracking requests made on a given day while an estimated 50,000 unique guests on the site are served with results of flight tracking activities. When these statistics are averaged, about ten requests for flight tracking are made every single second, every day of every year. To begin tracking a flight in progress on Flight Aware’s website, simply enter the airline’s name and number, or the flight’s number, identifier or the number of the tail of the aircraft and click to track its path.

Flight tracking requests made on Flight Aware’s website are returned in live format and are refreshed every six minutes. The most amazing thing about the superior, quality and efficient flight tracking service of Flight Aware’s facilities is that it is absolutely free. Although a few international flights can be tracked by Flight Aware, it does not guarantee the accuracy or availability of results. The role of Flight Aware in the delicate work of flight tracking and the free functions it performs for private, non-profit and commercial organizations cannot simply be overemphasized. Among private organizations that enjoy the free services of Flight Aware are charity organizations like Air Care Alliance, All Special Flights, Lifeguard and Angel Flights which are all not-for-profit outfits. Flight Aware seeks to identify with the noble work of these organizations by helping them to track their flights to any location in the United States for the same cost as all other users – zero dollars!