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FlightAware Scraper for Flight Status, History and Airport Data
FlightAware shows a visitor about two weeks of past flights for each flight number. Our FlightAware scraper reads them on schedule, so the history keeps growing on your side.
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flightaware.comwhat you get
Typical fields for travel sites
propertycitycheck_inroom_typepriceavailablerating
Delivery
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
ScheduleOne-time, monthly, weekly, daily or 3 times a day
FlightAware Data Scraping as a Managed Service
- You send
FlightAware pages, filters, fields and a schedule
- We run the scrapers
Built, monitored and repaired by our team
- You receive the data
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
You tell us what to follow - flight numbers, airports, airlines, aircraft types or tail numbers - and how often; we build the crawlers, keep them running and fix them when FlightAware changes a page. A flight page keeps changing while the aircraft is airborne, so we agree with you when a reading counts: once after arrival for history, or at set intervals for status and delay monitoring. Anti-bot handling, proxy rotation and rendering are included.
Times are delivered in UTC with the local time zone kept beside them, airports carry both ICAO and IATA codes, and each flight keeps the permanent address FlightAware gives it. Delivery is one-off or scheduled, after a free assessment and a sample.
Flight Page Fields in a FlightAware Dataset
Every flight on FlightAware has a permanent address built from the ident, the date, the scheduled departure time and the two airports, for example /live/flight/UAL1/history/20261111/0650Z/KSFO/WSSS, and that address becomes the key of each row.
- Flight identityident in ICAO form (UAL1) and IATA form (UA1), airline name, and the link to the inbound flight that brings the aircraft in.
- Aircraftaircraft type code with its full name, such as B789 for the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, with the engine layout FlightAware prints beside it (twin-jet).
- Airportsorigin and destination with ICAO and IATA codes and city, plus the gate and terminal FlightAware posts for departure and arrival.
- Timesscheduled, estimated and actual times for gate departure, takeoff, landing and gate arrival, with taxi times when reported.
- Status and delaysflight status (scheduled, en route, arrived, cancelled, diverted) and the delay notice of the origin or destination airport with its stated cause, such as low clouds.
- Flight planthe filed route as a string of waypoints and airways, filed speed and altitude, direct and planned distance, and estimated time en route.
- Positionfor flights in the air: current groundspeed and altitude against the filed values, time elapsed and remaining, and distance flown and remaining.
- Track logtime-stamped latitude, longitude, course, speed in knots and miles per hour, altitude, climb rate and the reporting facility for each position.
Every field in this list sits on the flight page, its track log or the airport page, as a visitor sees them without an account.
FlightAware Flight History, Airports and Fleets
A visitor without an account sees about two weeks of past flights in each flight number's activity log, every line with date, aircraft type, origin, destination, departure, arrival and duration or status; a free Basic account, registered through FlightAware's own sign-up form, extends that to three months. Anything older is not on the public pages, so a long record is built on your side: each run appends the flights that have landed since the last one, and the archive grows with every day of collection.
- Airport pagesfour boards per airport, Arrivals, Departures, En Route and Scheduled Departures, each with ident, aircraft type, the other airport and times, plus the delay banner, the count of cancellations in the last 24 hours and the METAR and TAF weather reports.
- Delays and cancellationsdaily totals worldwide and for flights within, into or out of the United States, from three days back to two days ahead, with tables by airline, origin airport and destination airport.
- Fleet pagesairborne flights per operator, with the base and contact details the operator lists.
- Aircraft typesevery airborne aircraft of one type, with route and time en route.
- Registration pagesfor aircraft registered to airlines and companies: model, year, seats, engines, serial number, Mode S code, certificate dates and registry source. Private owners are people, so their names stay out.
About FlightAware and Where Its Data Comes From
- Source
- flightaware.com
- Category
- travel sites
- Delivery
- API, JSON feed, CSV, XLSX
- Plans
- From €169 a month
FlightAware is a flight tracking site founded in 2005 and part of Collins Aerospace since 2021. It sells no tickets and shows no fares. What it publishes is the movement of aircraft - airline, cargo, business and private flights - with schedules, delays and positions, for airports and operators around the world, in English and in a long list of language versions on their own subdomains, such as de.flightaware.com and ja.flightaware.com.
Where does FlightAware get its data? Its data sources page names radar and flight plan data from air navigation service providers in 45 countries, ACARS datalink messages, a terrestrial ADS-B network of receivers hosted by its users, space-based ADS-B from Aireon, and out, off, on and in times from airline systems. That mix explains why one flight can show an airline schedule next to an actual wheels-off time, and why the reporting facility changes along a track log.
The site is organised around identifiers: flight idents, airport ICAO codes, operator prefixes such as UAL on fleet pages, aircraft type codes and registrations. Each identifier has its own page and the pages link to one another, so coverage can start from any of them and fan out.
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FlightAware scraping plans and pricing
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsWhy Scrape FlightAware
FlightAware data is operational rather than commercial: it records what flew, when and on which aircraft type, and it serves a different set of buyers than fare data does.
- On-time analysisscheduled against actual gate and runway times per flight number, airline and airport, collected daily, give on-time performance you calculate yourself and can audit flight by flight.
- Disruption handlingcompanies working on delay compensation or rebooking need actual arrival times and the stated cause of airport delays for each flight.
- Airport activityarrival and departure boards, read regularly, show traffic by airline, aircraft type and hour at the airports you follow.
- Fleet activityflights per operator and aircraft type show how intensively a fleet flies, useful to lessors, maintenance providers and analysts.
- Route researchfiled routes, distances and frequencies on a city pair show who serves it and with which equipment.
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About ScrapeIt
ScrapeIt builds and runs web data collection for clients, from one-off extracts to datasets refreshed every day. Flight tracking pages suit that model: the information is public, changes constantly and is only valuable when it is captured at the right moment and kept. We agree the identifiers and timing with you, send a sample, and deliver with field documentation; personal data is handled under GDPR, and private aircraft owners stay out of scope.
FAQ
Still unsure? Write to info@scrapeit.io
Do you offer a FlightAware API for flight status data?
Yes. The ScrapeIt FlightAware API returns ident, aircraft type, origin and destination, scheduled and actual times, status and delay notes as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. The same records also arrive as CSV or Excel files, on SFTP or Amazon S3, or as a load into your database.
Is it legal to scrape FlightAware?
Yes. Flight pages, track logs, airport boards and delay statistics are open to anyone who visits flightaware.com. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on FlightAware - and we collect it legally. Owners of private aircraft are individuals, so their names stay out of the dataset.
How far back does FlightAware flight history go?
Without an account, the activity log of a flight number shows roughly the last two weeks; a free Basic account shows three months. We cover what those pages show and extend it forward: a daily run appends each completed flight, so your archive grows from the first run on and no day ages out unseen.
How often should FlightAware data be refreshed?
It depends on the use. Delay and on-time work needs one reading per flight after arrival, best taken daily so nothing drops out of the activity log. Status monitoring and airport boards need repeated readings while flights are moving, and we schedule those for the hours and airports you name.
Can you export FlightAware data to CSV for a list of airports?
Yes. Give us the airports by ICAO or IATA code and we deliver their arrival and departure boards, delay banners and cancellation counts as CSV, XLSX or JSONLines, one row per flight and reading. Files can go to SFTP, Amazon S3, Google Drive or e-mail on each run.
How it works
- 1
Make a request
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
- 2
We configure the crawlers
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
- 3
Collect and deliver
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
- 4
Maintain and support
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Request a quote
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
- We reply within 1 business day
- A sample dataset before the full run
- We sign an NDA on request
- Delivery by API, JSON feed or files