News | Jetmap

Jetmap News is where we share updates about the Jetmap platform alongside coverage of the wider world of commercial aviation. Whether you're a frequent flyer chasing airline status, a spotter tracking new routes, or simply curious about the aircraft you flew on last month, this is the place to find context around the flights you log.

We publish two broad categories of stories here. The first covers Jetmap itself — new features as they ship, changes to how frequent flyer programs are tracked, improvements to our flight map rendering, and the occasional behind-the-scenes look at how we build the product. If you've ever wondered why a particular airport shows up differently on your map, or how we calculate your total flight hours, you'll usually find the explanation here first.

The second category is broader aviation news: airline announcements, new routes opening between airports already in our database, aircraft type retirements and introductions, and shifts in how loyalty programs award status credits and miles. Because Jetmap tracks flights across hundreds of airlines and thousands of airports worldwide, we try to keep this coverage relevant to the kind of travel our users actually log — long-haul premium cabins, regional hops, and everything in between.

Every article on this page links through to a full write-up, and each one is tied back to the aviation data that powers the rest of Jetmap. When we cover a new route, for example, you can usually find the airports involved already in our system, complete with community statistics on how often Jetmap users have flown through them. When we cover an aircraft type, you can cross-reference it against your own logged flights to see how many hours you've spent on board.

We update this page regularly as new stories are published, and older articles remain available permanently — useful if you're researching the history of a route, checking when an airline last changed its livery, or just want to revisit something you read a few months ago. Articles are ordered with the newest first, so you can quickly catch up on anything you might have missed.

If you're new to Jetmap, this news page is also a good entry point to understand what the platform does. Jetmap lets you log every flight you take, builds interactive maps of your travel history, tracks your progress toward airline status tiers, and generates detailed statistics about your time in the air — from total distance flown to your most-visited airports and favourite aircraft types. The news you read here often ties directly back to features you can use immediately once you start logging your own flights.