What FlightStatus keeps

There is no account

Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log into, and no profile to attach a search history to. A flight number is not private information, but a list of the flights one person has been watching is closer to being so — and FlightStatus does not build one.

What is stored in your browser

• flightstatus.theme — day, night or system. A display preference.
• flightstatus.recents — your last few searches, shown under the search box. Clear them from there at any time.
• flightstatus.units — feet or metres, km/h or knots.
• flightstatus.travel — the travel and parking allowances you set in pickup mode.

All four stay on your device. None is sent anywhere.

What the server sees

A request for a flight number or an airport code, which it answers from a shared cache. Addresses are counted for rate limiting so that the open data sources behind FlightStatus are not handed a scraper’s traffic — that count is not stored against what was searched.

Sharing a flight

A share link is just the flight number in a URL. Whoever opens it gets the current data. Nothing about you travels with it.