{"id":55741,"date":"2026-03-06T05:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/how-flightradar24-became-the-go-to-platform-for-the-world-to-watch-global-aviation-crises-unfold-4\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:09:55","slug":"how-flightradar24-became-the-go-to-platform-for-the-world-to-watch-global-aviation-crises-unfold-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/how-flightradar24-became-the-go-to-platform-for-the-world-to-watch-global-aviation-crises-unfold-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How Flightradar24 became the go-to platform for the world to watch global aviation crises unfold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish flight tracking tool, spun out of a price comparison portal, is tracking the travel chaos sparked by the US-Israel war on Iran in real time<\/p>\n<p>Mikael Robertsson and Olov Lindberg did not set out to build one of the pre-eminent monitors of global airspace. In a bid to draw more eyes to their Swedish flight price comparison portal, the entrepreneurs added a page charting air traffic.<\/p>\n<p>That page became Flightradar24, the portal that people around the world now turn to when there is chaos \u2013 and drama \u2013 in the skies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/06\/iran-war-flight-chaos-flightradar24-tracking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish flight tracking tool, spun out of a price comparison portal, is tracking the travel chaos sparked by the US-Israel war on Iran in real time Mikael Robertsson and Olov Lindberg did not set out to build one of the pre-eminent monitors of global airspace. In a bid to draw more eyes to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}