In faint letters at the bottom is "Powered by FlightLookup from GoldenWare travel Technologies" I don't know that as a business, they don't get involved in real-time tracking. There is also an 'accelerate' function as it shows compressed time into the future. Both of these tell me that it's schedule based not real time. It's fascinating to see geographically a stream of UAL flights to and from Hawaii to the mainland. The stream of UA/LH/BMI/AC flights to and from Europe and the east coast that go east over night, and west during the day. Then the Singapore Airlines stream of traffic from Europe over Russia. Matthew On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 07:31 PM, RWM wrote: > Matthew Montano wrote: >> >> Someone pointed out the Star Alliance screen saver which shows every >> Star Alliance flight in the air at one time. >> >> It has my son fascinated, and it is rather intriguing. >> >> Someone mentioned on the list, or it was the note at >> www.staralliance.com, that it is true live data. >> >> I believe that it simply is tracking everything based on the schedule >> information and great-circle tracks between different points, which >> for >> the most part is just as good and definitely just as interesting. >> >> Can anyone confirm that it is simply tracks of schedule, rather than >> actual flights? >> >> Matthew > > > Nice feature. However, it appears to cover parts of the globe that are > outside range of available tracking technology (Megadata, Flight > Explorer, > etc.) or are in data-suppressed regions. > > Next time you're "on" a delayed Star flight, flip your cell, call home > and > ask your son where the screen saver says you are... > > If he says you're already enroute... then you know. > > - Bob Mann > -- > - R.W. Mann & Company, Inc. >> Airline Industry Analysis > Port Washington, NY 11050 >> tel 516-944-0900, fax -7280 > mailto:RWM@xxxxxxxxxx >> URL http://www.RWMann.com/ >