I love using FlightAware to track my flights in real time, look at the daily averages for my flight, see the Air Traffic Contol Maps and more. On a recent flight I used FlightAware to see where we were, what our speed is and what gate we would be arriving at.

It also helps if your at the airport and see your flight has not even left the origination destination I like using tracking by Tail# or use the feature on the tracking map to see were the plane is coming from and backtrack it to see that it has not left Chicago as of yet.

This is great when a gate agent says the flight is only 10 minutes late but then I go on FlightAware to see if he or she is really telling the truth. If Fligt 333 is delayed 2 hours at Chicago then I know the SFO-HNL flight will leave late.

In the lounge I will use the FlightAware tracker so that way I won't waste time at the gate. If the flight is really delayed I just go up to the lounge agent and have me rebooked to an earlier flight. FlightAware hs really saved me on more than one occassion. Once I was at Maui and the flight was delayed the agent rebooked me via LAX-SJC and I did not have to fly back to San Francisco my original destination.

I also love seeing the altitutde of the flight and reading the chart of the air speed/altitude over the course of the flight. The indicator showing how much time has elasped since departure and how much to the destination, what the routing is as well as when the plane is taxcing to the gate. It shows on FlightAware that the plane has ladnded and is taxing to Gate A3. When you sign up for free you can see a 30 day history and if you pay the fee you can see the flight status since 1998. Its way better than Airshow in my opinion,

The agent is telling the truth according to the information available.

One of these days you're going to get burned by a FIRAV.