Today I watched the Heathrow departures board, from the comfort of my desk, until I saw that the plane my parents were on had started to taxi down the runway. The Small Person and I then watched at the window to see the plane fly overhead – we are directly on the flight path from Heathrow and they were taking off in our direction today.
During the course of the evening I have been able to track the flight over the Atlantic courtesy of Flight Tracker, and just a few minutes ago saw that the plane had landed safely at Newark airport, by checking the Newark Arrivals Board.