✈️ The Blue Board
An unofficial, real-time operations dashboard for United Airlines — built by flyers, for flyers.
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What Is This?
The Blue Board is a fan-built operations dashboard that lets you see United Airlines like an ops center would — live flight positions, hub schedules, fleet data, delays, weather, and stats, all in one dark, data-dense interface.
Not affiliated with United Airlines, Inc. This is an independent project by an aviation enthusiast.
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| Schedule — every hub's departures and arrivals, with tail, seat config and Wi-Fi | Starlink — the rollout tracked tail by tail |
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| Trackers — every new club, gate and concourse at United's hubs | Mobile — built for the phone in your hand at the gate |
Features
Real-time map tracking 600+ United flights, updated every 30 seconds. Filter by hub, toggle longhaul routes, overlay NEXRAD weather radar. Hub status sidebar shows departure/arrival counts and identifies the busiest hub. Search any flight by number, tail, or route. Great circle route lines show flight paths with city names.
⚠️ IROPS Monitor + Delay Risk
Server-side disruption scoring across all 8 United hubs plus the Tokyo-Narita gateway — cancellations, delays (30m/60m), diversions, and FAA ground stops. A rule-based delay risk score (0–100) weighs the actual delay, FAA programs, origin and destination weather, hub OTP, hub disruption, time of day, the inbound aircraft and the hub's risk profile. Click any risk badge for a natural language AI explanation powered by Claude, fetched when you open it and cached server-side for 5 minutes.
Departure and arrival boards for all 8 United hubs plus the Tokyo-Narita gateway (ORD, DEN, IAH, EWR, SFO, IAD, LAX, GUM, NRT). Filter by status or aircraft type. Equipment swap detection flags when a plane type changes. On-time performance stats. All times in airport-local timezone.
Database of 1,154 mainline aircraft (snapshot as of Nov 3, 2026) — searchable and sortable by type, registration, seat config, WiFi, and IFE. Live fleet status correlates airborne flights with the database, and a delivery timeline charts the fleet by family. 19 dedicated fleet type pages (737 MAX 9, A321neo, 787-9, etc.) with full aircraft registries, structured data, and cross-type navigation.
Its own tab since the rebuild. The full roster of Starlink-equipped aircraft (600+ and climbing; United expects it fleet-wide by the end of 2027) with sortable columns and filters by fleet, type, and operator, a retrofit-pace chart with a completion projection, and a mismatch report that flags aircraft the upstream tracker and the fleet database disagree about.
Save the flights you actually care about. Add one by number, see its live position, route, aircraft and times, and pin it to the watch list for browser push notifications on status changes — including background alerts that fire with the tab closed (setup). Stored on your device; nothing is sent to a server you didn't ask for.
FAA NAS delay and ground stop alerts, METAR observations with plain-English explainers, NEXRAD radar overlay, and hub health indicators. Each hub gets a unified card with conditions, visibility, wind, ceiling, and current delay status. Ops Impact Assessment goes beyond standard flight categories to flag real operational risks — snow, gusts, freezing precipitation, thunderstorms — even when conditions are technically VFR. Radar map renders instantly; weather data loads in parallel via batched API calls.
Live fleet utilization by aircraft type (airborne vs. total), flight phase distribution (climb/cruise/descent donut chart), hub-to-hub traffic flow matrix, top active routes, fleet delivery timeline with stacked histogram colored by aircraft family, and Starlink coverage metrics. All live data updates every 30 seconds.
🔍 Flight Search
Look up any UA flight number from the header search bar. Returns live position, route, aircraft details, and scheduled/actual times via the official Flightradar24 API.
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