Track Your Holiday Flight with Google

Google rolls out a new flight tracking feature: just type your airline and flight number into the search box, and get the departure and arrival location, time, and estimated departure and arrival. I'm also a fan of 4INFO's SMS flight status check on the way to the airport from my cell phone. How are you going to track your (and your arriving loved ones') flights this holiday season? Give it up in the comments.

10:47 AM on Thu Dec 20 2007
by Gina Trapani

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by Ryan Fisher at 8:58 AM 20/12/07

@tom: When you do the Google search, it shows that the results are coming from www.flightstats.com.

Ryan Fisher

by SabrinaFaire at 5:48 AM 20/12/07

I don't believe this is new, I've been doing this for awhile now. Unless I missing something. It's early still.

SabrinaFaire

by tom at 2:11 AM 20/12/07

flightstats.com
they also monitor most of EU-flights

tom

by unruled at 11:49 PM 19/12/07

hmm, did anyone else notice google also has a cooking recipe search thing built in now?
(try searching with keywords 'recipe pasta spinach')

anyway, nifty new features I'd say! :)

unruled

by Jordan117 at 10:27 PM 19/12/07

I thought it might be prudent to mention this post from last year, as well. :)

Jordan117

by Charles Duffy at 9:33 PM 19/12/07

I was about to plug FlightAware (doesn't hurt that the founder is a friend), but found that it'd already been done. Damn you, Scott Cropper! :)

Seriously, though, I second the suggestion. Not only does FlightAware show departure and estimated arrival times, but tons of other info as well -- and in style. One can also view flights by airport, which was useful a few days ago when we remembered that my mother was coming in on a Southwest flight between 3:00 and 4:00 but didn't remember anything else.

Charles Duffy

by je_unc at 7:24 PM 19/12/07

You can also text Google to find out flight information and a slew of other useful stuff - read all about it at [www.google.com]

je_unc

by Scott Cropper at 5:39 PM 19/12/07

Flightaware.com is a great site for tracking flights, even private planes. Just put in the tail number or for commercial flights the airline and/or flight number.

Scott Cropper

by stuckie at 5:00 PM 19/12/07

Looks like Google has also update its SMS service to return that same info.

stuckie