About

NHL Flights shows where each team's charter aircraft is: expected, airborne, or landed. The schedule tells us when a team must move between cities. Community ADS-B receivers tell us where the aircraft are. A matcher pairs the two and keeps a history of every flight it identifies. Matches are automatic and sometimes wrong; a "likely" tag means the match is not certain yet.

Data sources

• Live aircraft positions: airplanes.live and adsb.lol. Historical traces from adsb.lol, available under the Open Database License.
• Schedule and game state: the NHL's public API.
• Airport reference data: OurAirports, public domain.
• Map tiles: OpenFreeMap.

Fuel and CO2 estimates

Each flight shows an estimate of the jet fuel burned and the CO2 released. The estimate multiplies the time in the air, plus a short taxi allowance, by a typical block-average burn rate for the aircraft type (about 2,500 kg per hour for an Airbus A320 or Boeing 737-800). Burning one kilogram of jet fuel releases about 3.16 kg of CO2. Team charters carry far fewer people than an airline cabin, so the aircraft is lighter and the real burn is usually a little lower than the figure shown. Treat the numbers as rounded estimates, not measurements.

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This site is a hobby project. It is not affiliated with the NHL, any team, or any airline. Aircraft are identified by their public ADS-B transponder broadcasts; no private information is collected.