About Airport Overview

Most airport advice online is recycled. One site copies another, nobody checks the data, and the same wrong information shows up on ten pages at once.

Airport Overview was built to be the exception. Before this site published a single article, it was already tracking flights.

The data behind the site

Start with the route explorer. Pick any airport and see every nonstop flight that actually operates from it, where the one-stop and two-stop connections run(and three or more legs!), and how the map has shifted over time. Airlines cut and launch routes constantly. The explorer keeps up, which is why it is the front page of this site.

Flight pages go deeper. Live flight status, plus a page for nearly any city pair in the country: who flies it, how often, and what your realistic options are when the nonstop does not exist.

Then the performance data. We track on-time and delay numbers across US airports, continuously, working from FAA data we process ourselves. When an article here says an evening bank at O'Hare runs late, that comes from that tracking, with the date attached.

Airline and aircraft lookups close the loop: which carriers operate your route, and what equipment they put on it.

Editorial standards

The articles are built on top of the data, not the other way around. Numbers we measure ourselves. Claims we did not measure are linked to whoever did. Guides are updated when the facts underneath them change.

Airport Overview is run by a small team, edited by Jim. Corrections and questions go to the contact page.