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Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

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Post by amatecha »

You can get free enterprise access to a lot of the major flight tracker services by setting up an ADSB receiver and feeding the data to them. Basically they give you full access to everything as if you were paying for the top tier of their services, because you're helping increase the coverage of their data. A few such services:

https://www.flightradar24.com

https://flightaware.com/

https://www.radarbox.com/

https://skyscanworld.com/

There's also https://www.adsbexchange.com/ which doesn't filter their data (probably much to the chagrin of various businesses and governments). If you see/hear a weird plane above and you can't find it on the commercial services above, check ADSB Exchange.

Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

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Post by jsjohnst »

JamilD wrote: post #17

A few years ago I tried writing a Python wrapper around SABRE's API to get pricing, route, and schedule data, which seemed to work reasonably well. It likely doesn't work anymore, but it was a fun exercise. https://github.com/Jamil/sabre_dev_studio I wish I had access to the GDS data to get realtime seat/award availability, but I couldn't find any pricing information to get that information through Sabre's API. Does…

I’d really like to know this too, but been unable to get a price either. I also really want an API (ideally with historical data available) with fare pricing data too, but not been able to get a quote on that either.

Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

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Post by jjwiseman »

jjwiseman wrote: post #26

If you need airport or airspace data, openaip seems to be decent: http://www.openaip.net/ For some reason they make you register in order to download the data, and the site is a bit confusing, but the data seems good.

Here's an app I wrote for FS2020 that uses OpenAIP airspace data: https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1384611707314606090

Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

#34

Post by tpmx »

Fomite wrote: post #6

Briefly got interested, then hit "Warning: The third-party that OpenFlights uses for route data ceased providing updates in June 2014. The current data is of historical value only."

http://info.flightmapper.net/ is the gold standard for manual use, as far as I'm concerned. Would be lovely to have programmatic access to this data.

They say that they get their data from Cirium.

Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

#36

Post by eigen »

amatecha wrote: post #31

You can get free enterprise access to a lot of the major flight tracker services by setting up an ADSB receiver and feeding the data to them. Basically they give you full access to everything as if you were paying for the top tier of their services, because you're helping increase the coverage of their data. A few such services: https://www.flightradar24.com https://flightaware.com/ https://www.radarbox.com/ https://…

> You can get free enterprise access to a lot of the major flight tracker services by setting up an ADSB receiver and feeding the data to them. Basically they give you full access to everything as if you were paying for the top tier of their services, because you're helping increase the coverage of their data.

"top tier" may be overstating it but setting up a RPi and $20 USB ASDB receiver will get you the $90/month Enterprise feed [1]. Still a great deal if this is a topic that interests you.

[1] https://flightaware.com/adsb/

Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

#37

Post by alas44 »

jsjohnst wrote: post #32
JamilD wrote: post #17

A few years ago I tried writing a Python wrapper around SABRE's API to get pricing, route, and schedule data, which seemed to work reasonably well. It likely doesn't work anymore, but it was a fun exercise. https://github.com/Jamil/sabre_dev_studio I wish I had access to the GDS data to get realtime seat/award availability, but I couldn't find any pricing information to get that information through Sabre's API. Does…

I’d really like to know this too, but been unable to get a price either. I also really want an API (ideally with historical data available) with fare pricing data too, but not been able to get a quote on that either.

You can both take a look at Amadeus for dev (Amadeus is the biggest GDS) https://developers.amadeus.com

More info on API here https://github.com/amadeus4dev/hackathon-starter/blob/master...

Disclaimer I work for Amadeus, but actually never used this API service, I'd be interested in your feedback

Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

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Post by tpmx »

amatecha wrote: post #31

You can get free enterprise access to a lot of the major flight tracker services by setting up an ADSB receiver and feeding the data to them. Basically they give you full access to everything as if you were paying for the top tier of their services, because you're helping increase the coverage of their data. A few such services: https://www.flightradar24.com https://flightaware.com/ https://www.radarbox.com/ https://…

Not the same thing. Scheduled future/historic flight data vs observed realtime/historic flight data.

Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

#39

Post by bernardv »

einpoklum wrote: post #4

The US Bureau of Transport statistics provides historic flight schedule and actual flight performance data in CSV tables: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=23... But it's cumbersome to work with. I am working (on and off) on a DBMS benchmark based on this data. As part of that endeavor, I have a script which: * Automates downloading the CSVs. * Creates an appropriate SQL database schema. * Per…

Spent a lot of time with that dataset a couple of years ago, looking at historical flight delays and cancellation rates. If only this type of data was available outside of the US. The data is updated daily I believe and provides a lot of detail and is of pretty good quality.

Re: OpenFlights – airport and airline data

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Post by jsjohnst »

alas44 wrote: post #37
jsjohnst wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d really like to know this too, but been unable to get a price either. I also really want an API (ideally with historical data available) with fare pricing data too, but not been able to get a quote on that either.

You can both take a look at Amadeus for dev (Amadeus is the biggest GDS) https://developers.amadeus.com More info on API here https://github.com/amadeus4dev/hackathon-starter/blob/master... Disclaimer I work for Amadeus, but actually never used this API service, I'd be interested in your feedback

I’ll look into this API, thanks! Everything I’ve tried previously I ran into limitations that blocked me from building the project I was working on.
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