WAirline Reporter is an airline industry news blog that provides industry-wide news to readers who are interested in the airline and travel industry itself. Owned and operated by David Parker Brown, with writers located around the world and syndication with Reuters, it has been referenced by CNN, CNBC, NPR, Marker Place, FOX, AOL, Huffington Post, Forbes, APEX magazine, USA Today, KING5, MSNBC, Puget Sound Business Journal, Savvy Stews Network, Seattle Times, Gadling, Contemporary Business, The Independent and the Business Insider, and many other US and international media. Since its inception in 2008, it reports news and events affecting the industry, taking advantage of new media to facilitate dialogue and interaction between airlines, aerospace companies, industry experts, and travelers.
WAirliners.net is an aviation website that includes an extensive photo database of aircraft and airports, as well as a forum catering to aviation enthusiasts. Created by Johan Lundgren, Jr., the site originated in 1996 as Pictures of Modern Airliners. It was acquired by Demand Media in 2007 and underwent a major redesign in 2016.
Wanna.aero is a weekly e-journal and website devoted to airline and airport network planning, written by experienced airline and airport network planners, with experience ranging from easyJet, Go Fly and Birmingham Airport. Its work and research has been used in many airline and airport reports, and has been quoted in mainstream media as well as a financial report presentation from Ryanair.
WAVSIM is a free to join nonprofit flight simulation social networking service that focuses heavily on Microsoft Flight Simulator, Prepar3D, and X-Plane. It features a community forum, file library, and product reviews. The website is maintained by a group of volunteers and bandwidth and equipment is paid for by donations and advertising. It is one of the world's largest flight simulation websites and provides users access to information and addons for the flight simulator series of games. On May 12, 2009 the website was attacked by a hacker which resulted in a catastrophic loss of data. AVSIM was able to fully recover from the hack with the help of IT support from around the world.
WBoston Virtual ARTCC (BVA) is a non-profit community of aviation enthusiasts, students, and professionals. The organization connects virtual pilots and virtual air traffic controllers through the VATSIM network for the purposes of flight simulation and training.
Wch-aviation is a company that collects and publishes information about the airline business, based in Chur, Switzerland. It was founded in 1998 by Thomas Jaeger, former Head of Product Management of Mercator Asia. In 2012, Swiss entrepreneur Martial Saugy and Max Oldorf acquired shares in the company. Today the enterprise offers an aircraft, airline and airport database as well as consulting services.
WFlightAware is a global aviation software and data services company based in Houston, Texas, United States.
WFlightGlobal is an online news and information website which covers the aviation and aerospace industries. It also provides a community area for numerous distinct communities within those industries.
WFlightradar24 is a Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time commercial aircraft flight tracking information on a map. It includes flight tracking information, origins and destinations, flight numbers, aircraft types, positions, altitudes, headings and speeds. It can also show time-lapse replays of previous tracks and historical flight data by airline, aircraft, aircraft type, area or airport. It aggregates data from multiple sources but, outside of the United States, mostly from crowdsourced information gathering by volunteers with ADS-B receivers, and from satellite-based ADS-B receivers.
WFltPlan.com is a website that serves the general and corporate aviation community. Founded in 1999, it originally concentrated on flight planning. Its services now include flight tracking, e-APIS submissions, Safety Management Systems(SMS), GPS RAIM predictions, and an FAA-approved weather service.
WAirlines of the Web (Flyaow) was the first index of airline sites on the web, and has been online since 1994. Airlines of the Web was created by University of British Columbia associate professor, Marc-David Seidel, while conducting research as a graduate student on the strategic development of the airline industry. It now includes a geographic index of airline websites, aircraft photographs, airport codes, Fractional Jets directory, city guides, and full travel booking functionality through its relationships with well established travel companies.
WInternational Virtual Aviation Organisation VZW (IVAO) is a non-profit association which operates a free-of-charge online flight-simulation network. Following free registration users can connect to the IVAO Network (IVAN) either as a virtual air traffic controller or as a virtual pilot and engage and interact with each other in a massively multiplayer environment utilising real-world aviation procedures, phraseology and techniques.
WThe Professional Pilots Rumour Network, or PPRuNe, is an Internet forum catering to airline pilots and others in the aviation industry. The site was originally presented by Danny Fyne as an email list in 1993. It progressed to a bulletin board and then to web-based Internet forum, and acts as a "rumour exchange" for airline pilots.
WVirtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (VATSIM) is a nonprofit organization that operates an online flight-simulation network noted for its active membership and realism. Members can fly either as pilots or direct traffic as air traffic controllers, participating in what has been described as a close approximation of real-life aviation procedures.
WWings Over Kansas.com is an aviation website founded in 1998 by Carl Chance owned by Chance Communications, Inc. to provide information and entertainment to aviation enthusiasts and professionals worldwide. The web site is based in Wichita, Kansas, known as the "Air Capital of the World" due to the many aircraft manufacturers located there. In 2003, the site was upgraded to a data-based web site to better serve the needs of its members. "Wings Over Kansas" has grown steadily and as of 2009 draws over a quarter of a million visitors yearly from over 125 countries.