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"Flight Wait is a new map mashup that shows flight delays across the US in real time.  It came out a few days ago, just in time for Thanksgiving, the busiest travel weekend of the year.  According to the creators, the new map tool had been pretty quite until today.  That shouldn't be surprising at all.  \nTracking 136 flights, Flight Wait has only two filter options:  display delays by zipcode (which defers to the nearest airport), and show all delays.  Four different colors show delays for various time intervals, maxing at at 2 hours or more.  It's interesting to see this kind of data, which Flight Wait receives from the FAA, at a glance: today the great majority of all flights delayed for 2 hours or more are coming from the Northeast.  \nSo for a quick, large view of the nation's flight delays, Flight Wait is obviously a helpful map mashup.  But as a stand alone feature, it offers little more than a current events approach to flight delays.  There are no archives, historic map views, graphs or stats, embed options or the ability to add it to your iGoogle start page.  But it is the type of feature that would offer some good to those startups that are presenting an airport-specific niche offering to online travel resources, like Sidestep's new vertical and FlagXO.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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