Just looking on Emirates.com to see if I can OLCI for my flight later today, and whilst there, I also check out the "flight status" portion.
Normally, I expect airline sites to have quite a fair bit of lag behind in terms of up-to-dateness, however, here's empirical proof that EK's trumps them all when it comes to timeliness.
Time: 10:04 local Male time 9 Sep 2010
I see this: It says EK659 taxiing out. You'd expect this to be delayed info and that EK659's long departed when you see stuff like this.
I look out from my window at the Holiday Inn Male to check if it's true...... and there she is!, just having turned around at the runway threshold
I watch the takeoff roll, and she's wheels up shortly thereafterl. I turn back to my laptop and see this: In flight
Very impressive.
Normally, I expect airline sites to have quite a fair bit of lag behind in terms of up-to-dateness, however, here's empirical proof that EK's trumps them all when it comes to timeliness.
Time: 10:04 local Male time 9 Sep 2010
I see this: It says EK659 taxiing out. You'd expect this to be delayed info and that EK659's long departed when you see stuff like this.
I look out from my window at the Holiday Inn Male to check if it's true...... and there she is!, just having turned around at the runway threshold
I watch the takeoff roll, and she's wheels up shortly thereafterl. I turn back to my laptop and see this: In flight
Very impressive.
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