FlyGamma

Every aircraft on this map was really reported by an airline data feed, over real airports and real geography. None of them are invented. But the reports arrive tens of minutes apart, and between them this map flies each aeroplane on from its last fix at the speed and heading it reported — so most of the time the dot is where an aeroplane should be rather than a fresh report, and the readout at the foot of the map always carries the age of the last one. Where the feed does not say something, this site does not say it either. Nothing here should be used to meet an aeroplane.

How much the feed can see varies. At its widest it sweeps the whole world; when it is standing down it samples a handful of major hubs instead. Either way this is a window on world traffic and never a count of every aeroplane in the sky. When it cannot answer at all, the map empties and says why — it never fills back up with something invented.

Show me around

• Type a flight number in the search box — yours, or one you are meeting — for the airline's own schedule, status, terminal and gate. That answer comes from the schedule feed rather than from the map, and it is the one worth checking against the airline's own page.
• Click an airport for its real departure and arrival board, and a carrier's name for what it has in the air right now.
• Click a headline number along the top — aircraft, carriers, sectors, level, speed — for what it is made of: the busiest carriers, what is flying, and the extremes.
• Filter the list and the map dims everything that does not match.
• Flat or globe in the strip at the foot of the map, or G. On a globe the shapes and the great circles come out true and the half of the world facing away is simply not there — drag to turn it round. A phone opens on the globe around a 1,000 km region: near you if location was already allowed, otherwise around the busiest area in the live feed. A desktop opens flat. Choosing overrules that, for good.
• Layers is the button beside it, and the number on it is how many are on: night and the terminator, country borders and names, cities, airports, aircraft and their labels, and trails. Clear all takes the lot off, and puts back exactly the set you had.
• Save a flight using Save in its expanded row. The Saved tab shows your saved flights when they are in the live feed.
• Units and clocks are yours to set using Units & clocks in the footer: miles or kilometres, and times in UTC, the airport's own local time or your own.

Keyboard

/

Jump to a flight, airport or airline

F

Flights tab

A

Airports tab

W

Save or unsave the selected flight

G

Switch between the flat map and the globe

R

Jump to a random aircraft

U

Units and clocks

?

This list

Esc

Close whatever is open

Observation record

• Observation log, September 2026 — what the feed recorded during September 2026

Where this comes from

• Worldwide aircraft positions: AirLabs
• Flight schedules, statuses and airport boards: AirLabs, with AeroDataBox as a fallback
• Airport weather: NOAA Aviation Weather Center
• Airline logos: Logostream
• Coastlines, borders and cities: Natural Earth