To fully comprehend how crowded our skies are, click to open up the real-time map from Flightradar24 below. It will give you an idea of why our favorite destinations are so packed even now in the off-season.
Instantly, you’ll track worldwide air traffic as little yellow airplanes move across the screen. These are all the planes in the sky right now, at least all the aircraft with transponders.
It’s an eye-opener. And remember, thousands more people travel by cruise ships and cars. Unless they pack transponders in their luggage, they are under the radar.
Tracking Celebrities and Dignitaries
According to a CNN Travel article by Jacopo Prisco, people also use these publicly available platforms to track celebrities and dignitaries. His article, Inside Flightradar24, the website that tracks every plane in the sky, mentions a few high-profile examples. One was back in 2022 when members of the public tracked US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial flight to Taiwan. Another was Alexei Navalny, Russia’s recently deceased opposition leader, on his fateful return to his homeland in 2021. Still, others use the platform to track the flights of their friends and family members and their flights.
In addition to Flightradar24, other aviation trackers with free flight maps include FlightAware and PlaneMapper.
If you want to know what else is happening in the skies, read our earlier post: The Unfriendly Skies: Jamming and Spoofing.
Happy tracking!
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