# Pay **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [October 10, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193 "2006-10-10T21:40:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boeing7475500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@Boeing7475500](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/Boeing7475500)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/1 "2006-10-10T21:40:58Z")
Is FA becoming a paying service? I noticed this today when looking up a flight. [flightaware.com/live/flight/N580RC/history/buy](http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N580RC/history/buy) ---
**Author:** ![pika1000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/pika1000/32/124076_2.png) [@pika1000](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/pika1000)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/2 "2006-10-10T21:53:37Z")
No, just offering a pay service. Looks to be providing flight history, that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![cfijames](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@cfijames](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/cfijames)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/3 "2006-10-10T21:53:54Z")
It’s listed above every aircraft’s/flight number’s activity logs. Offers access to history back to June 2005. ---
**Author:** ![mduell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/mduell/32/115680_2.png) [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/4 "2006-10-11T01:30:54Z")
As you discovered, we’ve added another commercial service offering flight histories back to June 2005 in response to customer demand. The current 4 month flight history in the Activity Log will remain free. ---
**Author:** ![RobK](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/robk/32/128611_2.png) [@RobK](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/RobK)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/5 "2006-10-12T09:51:15Z")
> [@mduell](#): > > As you discovered, we’ve added another commercial service offering flight histories back to June 2005 in response to customer demand. > > The current 4 month flight history in the Activity Log will remain free. It’s only a matter of time folks… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![damiross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@damiross](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/damiross)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/6 "2006-10-12T14:20:18Z")
> [@RobK](#): > > > [@mduell](#): > > > > As you discovered, we’ve added another commercial service offering flight histories back to June 2005 in response to customer demand. > > > > The current 4 month flight history in the Activity Log will remain free. > > It’s only a matter of time folks… ☹ No, I think it’s just an enhancement for those few who complain that there’s only a few months’ worth of history on the free site. ---
**Author:** ![CessnaCitationX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@CessnaCitationX](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/CessnaCitationX)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/7 "2006-10-12T21:33:03Z")
> [@RobK](#): > > > [@mduell](#): > > > > As you discovered, we’ve added another commercial service offering flight histories back to June 2005 in response to customer demand. > > > > The current 4 month flight history in the Activity Log will remain free. > > It’s only a matter of time folks… ☹ Wrong again. If you would have taken less than two minutes of your time to search the FA forum you would have found [THIS](http://discussions.flightaware.com/viewtopic.php?t=1719&highlight=danielurl) thread. > [@CessnaCitationX](#): > > Just curious, why did you make FA FREE? > [@pika1000](#): > > > [@CessnaCitationX](#): > > > > Just curious, why did you make FA FREE? > > [Forrest Gump Voice]Mama always told me to never look a gift horse in the mouth"[Forrest Gump Voice] > > Are you complaining??? 🙂 > [@mduell](#): > > FlightAware started out free because we (FA staff) didn’t want to pay for flight tracking. > > FlightAware will remain free because we (FA staff and users) have proven that the free model works and is immensely popular. > > When we first started up, we recieved quite a few calls from people who thought we were running some sort of trick to get them hooked on flight tracking, and would make it a pay service in the future. Those calls seem to have mostly died down now. > [@Boeing7475500](#): > > Do you make your profits from ads? > [@pika1000](#): > > > [@Boeing7475500](#): > > > > Do you make your profits from ads? > > Business 101…yes. > > Think about how much money the networks make selling 30 second ads for $2+ million for the Super Bowl. It’s air time. Costs to the networks are minimal for that. In the internet world, ads can work two ways. One, they (FA for example) can make money from selling space on here. Two, companies will pay them for the number of hits they receive from users of FA clicking on said ads. From the books I have read on e-commerce, the second is the most prevelant today. > > I know that very basic business classes are becoming more and more popular at the high school level. I would suggest, when you can (most are based on grade level), take one. ---
**Author:** ![nugget](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/nugget/32/102_2.png) [@nugget](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/nugget)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/8 "2006-10-12T22:36:44Z")
The free FlightAware website has always been and will always be free and we have no intention of ever reducing the services or data we make available to our registered users. As others have remarked, FlightAware exists in large part because its founders considered it unreasonable to have to pay for live flight tracking. That said, we have also always offered commercial data services that go beyond what is available for free on the [FlightAware.com](http://FlightAware.com) website. Among these services is long-horizon flight histories which we’ve been selling to customers who call or write and ask. Recent significant expansion of our server resources has made it practical for us to offer these flight history reports in an automated fashion. This is the reason the link to these reports has appeared on the website. We’re now able to offer these history reports cheaper (since it takes less human labor to produce them) and more conveniently (since the website is available even on holidays and weekends) to our customers. It’s a win for everyone. Rest assured that the free web site services are in no way jeopardized by this additional feature. ---
**Author:** ![Boeing7475500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@Boeing7475500](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/Boeing7475500)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/pay/2193/9 "2006-10-13T02:19:43Z")
Alright now I can sleep well tonight!