While searching the web on the flight tracking topic, I came across this article from New York Times. Citation:

“…when a storm shut down Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport last [on] Dec. 29 [, 2006], forcing American Airlines to divert 130 planes to other airports in the region, what high-tech system came into play at the world’s largest airline?

“A legal pad,” said Don Dillman, managing director of American’s operations center here, where dispatchers direct flights around the world…”

Wait! A legal pad? The article goes on assuring that now there is some nice flight diverting software. However, with all the aviation cuts, it seems very probably that one can find him/her self stranded soemwhere whilst your beloved ones are worrying not having infromation about your whereabouts!

What tracker would track in these circumstances?