Historical-Airport-Schedules-API

Aviation Edge Historical Airport Schedules API provides the latest recorded data of airport schedules worldwide, on a given date or date range. It has global coverage with the exception of military and private airfields. We save and collect the real-time data we provide through our Schedules API and provide this in a separate API. The historical API has the same amount of details for each flight in the schedule with even more filters available. Delay and cancellation data stored, making the API perfect for compensation claims and historical flight analysis/comparisons.

Documentation

You may find input parameters, output examples with explanations for each item, filter list, and more in the documentation.

Example Fields of Use

• Websites, tools or apps on historical flight status
• Viewing historical flight delays and cancellations for flight compensation
• Viewing changes in airport or airline traffic over time
• Avrage delay and cancellation analysis
• Flight schedule changes analysis

Request

For the departure schedule of a certain airport on a certain date:

GET https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=[API_KEY]&code=JFK&type=departure&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD

For the arrival schedule of a certain airport on a certain date:

GET https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=[API_KEY]&code=JFK&type=arrival&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD

For the schedule of a certain airport of a certain date range (also available for arrival):

GET https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=[API_KEY]&code=JFK&type=departure&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&date_to=YYYY-MM-DD

For the schedule of a certain airport on a certain date (or range) but only flights with a certain status:

GET https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=[API_KEY]&code=JFK&type=arrival&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&date_to=YYYY-MM-DD&status=cancelled

For tracking individual historical flights:

GET https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=[API_KEY]&code=JFK&type=departure&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&date_to=YYYY-MM-DD&flight_number=[1234]

For filtering the flights of a certain airline from the arrival schedule of a certain airport on a certain date (also available for departure schedules and as a date range):

GET https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=[API_KEY]&code=JFK&type=arrival&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&&airline_iata=TK

Filters

&code=          (obligatory) Departure or arrival airport IATA code
&type=          (obligatory) Either "departure" or "arrival" as both within the same query is not possible
&date_from=     (obligatory) Requested date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Can be used alone for a single date or in combination with "&date_to" to define a range.

&date_to=       end date of the requested date range
&dep_iataCode=  filter of departure airport if "arrival" for "&type=" was chosen, based on the airport IATA code
&arr_iataCode=  filter of arrival airport if "departure" for "&type=" was chosen, based on the airport IATA code
&airline_iata=  option to filter airline based on airline IATA code
&flight_num=    option to filter a specific flight based on its flight number

Useful Code Examples

1. Fetching the Data (axios library used)

const axios = require('axios');

async function fetchAirportData(apiKey, airportCode, date) {
    const endpoint = `https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=${apiKey}&code=${airportCode}&type=departure&date_from=${date}`;
    
    try {
        const response = await axios.get(endpoint);
        return response.data;
    } catch (error) {
        console.error("Error fetching airport data:", error);
        return null;
    }
}

const apiKey = 'api-key';  // Replace with your actual API key
const airportCode = 'JFK';
const date = '2023-03-04';

fetchAirportData(apiKey, airportCode, date).then(data => {
    console.log(data);
});

2. Filtering flights based on status (the example is delayed flights)

function filterDelayedFlights(flights) {
    return flights.filter(flight => flight.departure.delay && flight.departure.delay > 0);
}

fetchAirportData(apiKey, airportCode, date).then(data => {
    const delayedFlights = filterDelayedFlights(data);
    console.log("Delayed Flights:", delayedFlights);
});

3. Displaying airline name + delay for a quick overview

function displayDelayedInfo(flights) {
    flights.forEach(flight => {
        const airlineName = flight.airline.name;
        const delay = flight.departure.delay;
        console.log(`${airlineName} had a delay of ${delay} minutes.`);
    });
}

fetchAirportData(apiKey, airportCode, date).then(data => {
    const delayedFlights = filterDelayedFlights(data);
    displayDelayedInfo(delayedFlights);
});

Response

[
{"type": "arrival", 
"status": "landed", 
"departure": 
{
"iataCode": "eyw",
"icaoCode": "keyw", 
"gate": "8", 
"delay": 15, 
"scheduledTime": "2021-11-02t16:55:00.000", 
"actualTime": "2021-11-02t17:09:00.000", 
"estimatedRunway": "2021-11-02t17:09:00.000", 
"actualRunway": "2021-11-02t17:09:00.000"
},
"arrival": 
{"iataCode": "iah", 
"icaoCode": "kiah", 
"terminal": "b", 
"baggage": "b3", 
"gate": "76", 
"scheduledTime": "2021-11-02t19:00:00.000", 
"estimatedTime": "2021-11-02t18:46:00.000", 
"actualTime": "2021-11-02t18:55:00.000",
"estimatedRunway": "2021-11-02t18:55:00.000",
"actualRunway": "2021-11-02t18:55:00.000"},
"airline":
{"name": "united airlines", 
"iataCode": "ua", 
"icaoCode": "ual"
}, 
"flight": 
{"number": "6264", 
"iataNumber": "ua6264", 
"icaoNumber": "ual6264"}
}
]

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