Historical Flights API

Apart from providing data about real-time flight, the API's flights endpoint is also capable of looking up data about historical flights.

Example API Call:

https://app.goflightlabs.com/historical?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&code=LGA&date_to=2023-10-04T20:00&date_from=2023-10-04T08:00&type=departure

HTTP GET Request Parameters:

Object Description
access_key [Required] Your API access key, which can be found in your account dashboard.
code [Required] Airport IATA code. This field will filter the results based on the Departure or Arrival Airport IATA Code, depending on the selected "type".
type [Required] Either "departure" or "arrival" as both within the same query is not possible.
date_from [Required] Beggining of the search range (local time, format:YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM).
date_to [Required] End of the search range (local time, format:YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM). Must be more than beggining of the search range by no more than 12 hours.
dep_iataCode [Optional] Filter by departure airport if "arrival" for "&type=" was chosen, based on the airport IATA code.
arr_iataCode [Optional] Filter your results by arrival airport if "departure" for "&type=" was chosen, based on the airport IATA code.
airline_iata [Optional] Option to filter airline based on airline IATA code
flight_num [Optional] Option to filter a specific flight based on its flight number. Example: 5703

Example API Response:

                    
                    {
                        "status": 200,
                        "success": true,
                        "data": [
                            {
                                "movement": {
                                  "airport": {
                                    "name": "Omaha"
                                  },
                                  "scheduledTime": {
                                    "utc": "2023-10-04 12:13Z",
                                    "local": "2023-10-04 08:13-04:00"
                                  },
                                  "terminal": "C",
                                  "quality": [
                                    "Basic"
                                  ]
                                },
                                "number": "DL 4094",
                                "status": "Unknown",
                                "codeshareStatus": "Unknown",
                                "isCargo": false,
                                "aircraft": {
                                  "model": "Bombardier CRJ900"
                                },
                                "airline": {
                                  "name": "Delta Air Lines",
                                  "iata": "DL",
                                  "icao": "DAL"
                                }
                            },
                            {...}
                        ]
                    }

API Response Objects:

Response Object Description
movement > airport > name The name of the airport.
movement > scheduledTime > utc The scheduled time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
movement > scheduledTime > local The scheduled time in the local time zone.
movement > terminal The terminal of the flight.
movement > quality An array of quality characteristics of the data.
number The flight number.
status The status of the flight.
codeshareStatus The code-share status of the flight.
isCargo Indicates whether the flight is a cargo flight.
aircraft > model The model of the aircraft.
aircraft > name The name of the airline.
aircraft > iata The IATA code of the airline.
aircraft > icao The ICAO code of the airline.