Flightaware

This is nifty. - www.flightaware.com -

I dug it up just now because i'm currently a nervous dad. We saw off our daughter and her partner from Adelaide a little over 24 hours ago on their 3 and a half weeks holiday in Great Britain and France. I'm a hugely seasoned traveller and a pilot (of gliders) and I've always looked at air travel in all its forms in a 100% logical light.

But I've had a nervy 24 hours... which Is why I dug up Flightaware. I know there are other similar sites but this one is terrific! Pasted (and deformatted) from her flight info is the following:

Kuala Lumpur Int'l (WMKK / KUL)
Terminal M
London Heathrow (EGLL / LHR)
Terminal 4
00:48 MYT
06:49 BST (+1)
Scheduled: 23:40 MYT
7-day average: 23:52 MYT
Scheduled: 05:30 BST (+1)
7-day average: 05:46 BST (+1)
Other flights between these airports
Duration: 13 hours 1 minutes
Sunday, 21 September 2014
Status Arrived at gate 38 minutes ago (track log & graph)
Aircraft Airbus A380-800 (quad-jet) (A388 – photos)
Speed Filed: 447 kts (graph)
Distance Direct: 10,617 km Planned: 10,615 km Flown: 13,695 km

How good's that!? I wonder why they flew an extra 3,000 kilometres?

I guess they detoured around war zones....

But how was the planned flight 2km shorter than the direct distance?

That's the logical answer, Wuz. But the Ukraine stuff's been current for quite a while now, therefore one would imagine that, by now, the airlines would have a revised flight plan reflecting the additional distance.

Penn wrote:

That's the logical answer, Wuz. But the Ukraine stuff's been current for quite a while now, therefore one would imagine that, by now, the airlines would have a revised flight plan reflecting the additional distance.

There is also Iraq and the Gaza strip.

Maybe there was some weather they had to avoid.

Hey Wuz, if I were cleverer, I could figure out where the additional 3,000km went! - http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS2/history/20140920/1540Z/WMKK/EGLL/tracklog

This isn't Flightaware, but another web site that provides live tracking and displays it. I spent an hour last night tracking a flight from Copenhagen to Frankfurt.

https://planefinder.net/flight