Trackers
Aviation's biggest stories don't happen in a news cycle — they happen over years, one airport at a time. Trackers are living pages that follow them: a map, the real numbers, a searchable table of every site, and a changelog. Updated monthly.
The FAA is finally replacing paper flight strips at 89 airport towers. Airport-by-airport status of the rollout — who's live, who's next, who's still waiting.
Atlanta (ATL) becomes the 26th airport on electronic strips, per the FAA — about six months after its 2023-plan slot. We can now name 24 of the 26; the FAA hasn't publicly named the 22nd or the 24th.
United's biggest ground buildout ever: every club, terminal, and gate project across all eight hubs — with honest labels for what's real, what's dated, and what's just a Kirby tease.
Dulles Concourse E opens to travelers, after slipping from late September into October and then past it: 14 new United gates, plus a nearly 40,000 sq ft United Club, United's second-largest, that United said opens the same day.
What a tracker is
Every entry cites a source — an FAA audit, an airline press release, an airport authority's own numbers. Where an agency publishes no date, the tracker says so instead of guessing. Where a claim traces to one press release, it's attributed, not asserted. When something changes, the changelog records it. Screenshot freely; the data underneath is versioned.