New to the forum - "simple" question?

FlightAware General
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Hi,

I am new to this forum and I have a “simple” question about Flight ware. When I go to the flight tracking page and select the airport to see the air traffic, I see that there are (3) lines of information for each flight. The first line indicates the airline and type of plane, the third shows “from - to (destination)”, but what exactly does the second line (number) show? Are these altitude? Sorry for the simplistic question.

Thank you,

Tom

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Altitude (ex, 360 is 36,000’), and speed in kts.

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Thank you!!

Tom

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And before we get into another thread about mach 1 airliners the speed is one of two things. The filed True Airspeed is shown on the page for a particular flight. The ground speed is shown on the map as in your question.
Both are in Nautical Miles per hour (Knots).