Two terms, flight schedule and flight status, are often used interchangeably despite these being
different. Flight schedule is fixed information on day, time and arrival and
departure points of a particular flight. It is an advance time-table brought
out by the airline to provide information to people about the times and days of
various flights operated by it between two destinations. This information helps
people to plan their travel in a better way. Flight status, on the other hand, is the information about the
location and condition of flight at a particular point of time. It is not fixed
and is determined on real-time basis. So, flight schedule is something which
you generally seek to know before proceeding with flight booking whereas status is generally enquired for after doing
the booking.
A query for knowing the status of a flight would be for
knowing whether it is delayed or not, its location and condition and whether it
has already landed or is still flying. For getting the correct information on
the status of flight, use is made of the satellite-based GPS flight trackers, the
communication channels between airline crew and Air Traffic Controllers and of the
radar systems. These are helpful in determining coordinates, speed and point
towards which airplane is headed.
For people who want to know flight status, the same can be known from the websites using the
trackers for real-time information on flights. You would require input of the
name of the airline or its code and the flight number in most of the
flight-tracking web resources to know its status. The websites of airlines,
independent tracking service providers and even the search engines can tell the
status of a particular flight. Besides using the websites, use can also be made
of the mobiles for receiving the status information using the SMS services.
Alternatively, you can always make call to the airline office or airport to
check the status.
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