Are official airport sites more accurate than flight tracking sites?

1/15/2014 3:12:53 PM

The delay is partially accurate there is data that is fed to the app delayed. But the tracking of the flight is still real time.

Flight Radar 24 specifies 3 sources of data of which one: FAA is 5 minutes delayed, which means that most flights by major airlines will still be tracked accurately, similar information is indicated by Flight Aware and so on.

Now as far as gates are concerned the information is more accurate at the airport then on the flight tracker as the gates can change if the flight lands late.

Now if you are trying to estimate the time of arrival of a given flight down to the minute using flight tracker I would highly recommend not doing this since weather conditions, airport conditions and other issues can affect this information and I would give myself some fudge factor when time is concerned.

Now as far as airports are concerned I would recommend taking the information with the grain of salt. Newark airport’s informtion system for example uses FlightView for tracking information and the estimation of arrivals will be given to you based on the information from the same application, so it will be just as accurate as if you looked it up on that app directly.

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