How Flightradar24 became aviation's most-watched screen as flights are disrupted

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How Flightradar24 became aviation's most-watched screen as flights are disrupted   The platform was born out of curiosity. Swedish founders Mikael Robertsson and Olov Lindberg, who ran a flight price comparison site, bought two receivers and put an antenna on a Stockholm rooftop.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/03/17/how-flightradar24-became-aviations-most-watched-screen-as-flights-are-disrupted  Euronews Next is a future-focused news section covering global innovation, science and technology with a European perspective. Our dedicated team of journalists aims to educate and inspire today’s leaders by providing them with analysis and insights into the people and organisations shaping our future

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00:31from experience i don't think i know anyone who works in the aviation industry at least on the

00:36operational side of it that doesn't use flight radar 24 in some way uh you know before i entered

00:41this profession i've seen flight radar 24 in control rooms in airports not as a primary source

00:47of data but as a sense check and as an extra source of data so really it's so intrinsic to

00:54what we do that i don't know anyone in the profession personally who doesn't use it

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