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I found out about http://www.flightconnections.com/ a couple of weeks ago when a friend linked it to me. It looks like it has fairly exhaustive data on airports including all the airports they connect to, which the OP doesn't have. However, it is lacking on everything else :)
Where do these guys get their data from?
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OpenFlights maintainer here. Thanks for the kudos, although our airport data is primarily from OurAirports.com these days. Re: schedules, I've finally got a good lead on a way to obtain data without relying on the OAG/Innovata duopoly. Stay tuned.
I am super interested in that final point of yours. Any more details you can share? Also, I owe you a beer in real life for enabling my app to exist.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7wl5eKTraibp0l6cS...
And OpenFlights accepts donations ;)
Any other tips for complete airport datasets?
This site has a total of 9300 airports. The CIA lists 13513 airports in just the US - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Thank you for mentioning that! I could not believe when I saw "my" Germany so close to the US, because for Germany, this number must include every little sailplane field and a lot must be missing from the US. What I really wondered about is the pattern by which airports have been included. Where 100% private airports not included (because the US has an immense number of privately owned airstrips)? Even Flight Simulat…
I live in northern Fort Worth. To the south of me there is a little international airport named Meacham. To the north of me there is a much large freight airport named Alliance. Down the street from my house is a small airport for personally owned airplanes. A little more than 5 miles from my house is a neighborhood built around an airstrip for personally owned airplanes.
Then of course there are the big airports that most people actually use: Love Field, DFW, Addison Executive. DFW is one of the largest and busiest airports in the world and you still have all these other airports around. Go to Fort Worth on Google Maps and search for Airports. There are some smaller airfields that don't show up even though you have all these results.
Flying is extremely regulated in the US, but that regulation is not super strict unless you are flying aircraft of a certain size or carry passengers. You have to be a certified pilot just to fly drones of a certain size.