Hundreds of thousands of flights take off and land each day around the world. On April 1, 2016, FlightRadar24 tracked a total of 164,209 flights. Tens of thousands of those took to the skies over the United States. In the video below, they compressed 24 hours of flight activity over the United States into just one minute.
A lot happens in the skies above the US over a 24-hour period, so FlightRadar24 wanted to explore a bit of what is happening in the video. The time lapse covers 1 April 2016, from 8:00PM EDT to 7:59PM EDT and begins during the mid-evening on the east coast and late afternoon on the west coast.
Over the Oceans
FlightRadar24 didn’t center the video directly on the United States because they wanted to show the transatlantic flight activity departing and arriving over the United States’ east coast each day. Flights depart from all over the US and join the North Atlantic Tracks on their way to Europe and beyond. On the return journey they follow the westbound tracks, often crossing into the US over New England before continuing to their destination. In the evening in the US (7:59PM – 2:00AM) transatlantic traffic flows eastward before returning in earnest at about 10:00AM.
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