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Positions adsb.lol (ODbL), map Protomaps and OpenStreetMap contributors
This map shows every airline flight in the air within 160 nautical miles of the 20 airports Fareband tracks, from the adsb.lol receiver network, the airport you are looking at read about once a minute. Each aircraft moves along its own track between updates. Beside it are the fares we observe on 40 routes between those airports, each with the date it was read.
From sky to fare
The routes drawn on the globe, against their own ninety-day band. A tick left of the band is cheaper than nine fares in ten.
Our server asks adsb.lol for the aircraft within 160 nautical miles of the airports someone is looking at, the one in view about once a minute and the rest every few minutes, never two at once. It keeps airline flights only, drops business jets, helicopters and anything flagged military, private or not to be displayed, removes the registration, and serves one snapshot to every reader. Your browser talks to fareband.com and nobody else.
The positions are aircraft telling the world where they are, picked up by volunteer receivers. We add nothing to them except the airline's name from its callsign, the aircraft's type name and whether it is climbing out of or descending into the airport it is near.
Airline flights only, recognised by an airline callsign, within 160 nautical miles of the twenty airports we track. Private and business jets, military aircraft, helicopters and aircraft whose owners have asked not to be displayed are left out before anything reaches this page, and no registration is kept.
From the aircraft itself. Within 40 nautical miles of an airport, below 10,000 feet and descending faster than 300 feet a minute, it is counted as arriving. Climbing at that rate, as departing. That describes what the aircraft is doing, it is not a timetable.
The source allows a few hundred requests a day, so our server reads only what someone is looking at, the airport in view about once a minute, the whole world every few minutes, nothing when nobody is watching. Each panel says how old its positions are, and between reads each aircraft is moved along its own track at its own ground speed, for four minutes at most.
From adsb.lol, a community network of volunteer receivers that publishes aircraft positions under the Open Database License. Coverage depends on where receivers are, so traffic over open sea and some regions is thin or missing. That is a gap in reception, not an empty sky.
Not yet. Origin and destination come from licensed route databases, and we have not used one. What we show is what the aircraft is doing near each airport, which is something we can state from the position data alone.
Because the question after watching the arrivals into Athens is usually what a ticket there costs. Every route on the globe links to the fares we have observed on it, with the band of the last ninety days and the date of every figure.