FlightLabs API - Historical Flights API

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=2025-02-04T20:00& date_from=2025-02-04T12:00&type=departure

Test endpoint

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API Response:

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.
`date`	optional	Filter by a specific date (local time, format: YYYY-MM-DD). This field will override both the 'date_from' and 'date_to' fields, returning data for the entire 24-hour range of the specified date.
`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.