“FlightAware offers live flight data, airport information, weather maps and charts, as well as aviation news to nearly two million users a month. FlightAware also powers operational management and dispatch software, airport FIDS (flight information displays), and provides reporting data to aircraft and airport operators. [currently] tracking 2,274 airborne aircraft with 88,882,867 total flights in the database. FlightAware has tracked 39,546 arrivals in the last 24 hours.” [ars technica’s backgrounder]