Airlines
FlightAware
FlightAware is the world's largest flight tracking service, providing real-time and historical data for commercial, private, and cargo aircraft.
What is FlightAware?
FlightAware was founded in Houston in 2005 with a specific focus that distinguished it from flight tracking hobbyists: providing accurate, commercially reliable flight data to airlines, airports, aviation operators, and developers. While Flightradar24 built its brand on consumer-friendly real-time visualisation, FlightAware carved out the professional data market — its Firehose and FlightXML APIs power flight status displays at airports, airline operations centres, ground transportation apps, and travel management platforms worldwide. Collins Aerospace (a Raytheon Technologies division) acquired FlightAware in 2021, integrating it into professional aviation data infrastructure.
FlightAware's data pipeline is a sophisticated fusion of FAA data feeds for US domestic traffic, ADS-B from its own global receiver network, EUROCONTROL data for European airspace, Jeppesen and IATA schedule data, and derived position data for oceanic flights. The platform processes millions of flight records daily and provides both real-time tracking and historical flight data going back years. For aviation professionals, FlightAware's airport delay indices and weather-correlated delay predictions are operational planning tools rather than entertainment.
When FlightAware experiences platform problems, the effects split across consumer and professional use cases. The FlightAware website and app may fail to display live flight positions, show stale departure and arrival estimates, or return errors on airport activity views. For API customers — which include travel apps, rideshare pickup coordination systems, and airline operational tools — data feed delays or errors have downstream consequences in consumer-facing products. Notification failures mean travellers who signed up for flight alerts do not receive departure or delay messages in time to adjust their plans.
Outage.gg monitors FlightAware service status with real-time community reports from travellers and aviation professionals. If the live data is stale or the API is returning errors, the live status page will show current incident status.
Common FlightAware Problems
Issues users most frequently report when FlightAware is having problems.
Service unavailability
API calls are failing, dashboards are unreachable, or the service is returning 5xx errors.
Slow performance / high latency
Response times are significantly above normal, causing timeouts and degraded user experience.
Authentication failures
API keys, OAuth tokens, or SSO logins are being rejected unexpectedly.
Data sync & storage issues
Files, databases, or synced data are not updating, missing, or inaccessible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about FlightAware outages and server status.
You can check the live FlightAware server status at outage.gg/services/flightaware. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
FlightAware can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/flightaware and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the FlightAware status page at outage.gg/services/flightaware. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment FlightAware comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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