AirportBoard is designed to avoid a common travel-site failure: presenting simulated, stale or inferred information as if it were live operational data. These are the rules the site follows.
AirportBoard does not fabricate scheduled flight rows. For operational departure/arrival status, gates and airline changes, each airport page links to the airport's official live board. That keeps the most time-sensitive decision with the authoritative operational source.
METAR and TAF data are fetched server-side from the U.S. NOAA Aviation Weather Center. Results are cached to reduce upstream requests. If the feed fails, AirportBoard may show a previously fetched real observation marked stale; it does not synthesize weather.
Nearby aircraft positions come from ADSB.lol and are displayed under its Open Database License attribution. Positions are informational only and never intended for navigation or safety-critical use. The site caches this feed and limits refresh frequency.
Airport location maps use OpenStreetMap and show the airport area. Indoor gate detail varies, so AirportBoard also links to each airport's official terminal map when available.
Fares, terminal-transfer instructions, rail connections and similar operational facts are checked against airport authorities, transport operators or tourism authorities. Each airport hub lists its sources and a verification date.
Guides are original AirportBoard summaries created around traveler questions and search intent. They include an update date and source links when they contain airport-specific operational facts. They are not substitutes for airline, immigration or airport instructions.
Live feeds refresh through server-side caches. Editorial facts should be rechecked on a schedule and whenever an airport changes terminals, transport systems, pricing or connection procedures. Each airport record stores its own verification date.
AirportBoard can contain affiliate or partner links, including contextual referrals to 5DollarESIM. Tracking parameters identify the airport and placement so commercial performance can be measured separately from editorial data. A commercial link does not change the operational source shown to travelers.