this sounds weirdly like Delta-speak ...

I'm not techie enough to play around with finding my own hacks or alternate ways of getting the info that FlightStats or EF used to show, and I don't really travel enough to where I need to have that info at my fingertips, but from most of the recent FT chatter it sure seems that there are a lot of FlightStats and EF customers who actually want and use these features, and that it's the airlines who don't want their customers (i.e., those same travelers) to have the data