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But SouthWest will give you a much prettier display of that same data (track your flight, see the current altitude and ETA, and a lot more, like the plane's pos
by not2b 3y ago
But SouthWest will give you a much prettier display of that same data (track your flight, see the current altitude and ETA, and a lot more, like the plane's position on the map) without paying for their WiFi. My guess is that they are using the same data that article writer wrote a program to process. Essentially there is one site you can visit for free and that's where it is.
- jamesbvaughan 3y agoYep, that's exactly right! They have a nice status page that you can visit free of charge that visualizes this data. I chose to scrape it for a couple reasons: 1. I wanted see all of the data for the entire flight - that status page only visualizes the current values. 2. It was fun!
- fragmede 3y agoPlus there's no Internet. What're you going to do, read a book?
- coffeebeqn 3y agoI was on some US flight recently - maybe Alaskan airlines - and they basically had a LAN box with movies and shows accessible on wifi without internet access
- samwhiteUK 3y agoThank you. That answers the question I had which was, "why does trying to get the portal page return a load of data about the plane?"