> Couldn't they have just paid FlightAware to add some data to the track?

Huh? Why would FlightAware agree to this? What would the point even be?

By that logic Boeing could just pay to have their carbon numbers falsified too. May as well falsify the population numbers too while they are at it.

You can criticize the carbon emissions but why advocate for falsifying data? They could have just... not done the flight.