Flight Delay API
Current & Historical Cancellations and Delays
Our Flight Delay API provides historical flight schedules and timetables for airports and airlines worldwide. We maintain a central database and offer real-time access to this data anytime through your personal API key—backed by leading uptimes.
- Departure and arrival delays
- Cancellations
- Flight details
- Dates and timestamps
- Airline details
- Flight number, gate, terminal
- Codeshared flight numbers
Data Included In The Flight Delay API
Access historical flight delay and cancellation data with our easy-to-use API. Get real-time flight status for any past date, including exact delay times in minutes—delivered in fast JSON.
- Final status of the flight: landed, cancelled
- Flight details: flight number, departure/arrival airport, terminal, gate
- Times: total departure and arrival delay; scheduled, estimated and actual flight times with date
- Airline: Name, IATA code and ICAO code
- Codeshares: Codeshared flight numbers and airlines
✈️ Get multiple days with a complete list of flights in a single API call.
🎯 Filter by flight number, departure or arrival airport, airline, status and more.
Sources and Process
The Flight Delay and Cancellation API aggregates airport and airline flight delay data worldwide and offers it under one JSON REST API. The structure of the API allows easy access and integration with uptimes at the industry standard.
Flight Delay API Output - Developer Information
The schedule of an airport on a date range:
(Use “&date_from” only for a single date)
&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&date_to=YYYY-MM-DD
Get all cancelled flights:
&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&date_to=YYYY-MM-DD&status=cancelled
Track a certain flight:
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
Track a certain airline:
&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&&airline_iata=TK
…and many more filters available.
Response Example
[{
“type”: “arrival”,
“status”: “landed”,
“departure”: {
“iataCode”: “ewr”,
“icaoCode”: “kewr”,
“terminal”: “c”,
“gate”: “74”,
“delay”: 44,
“scheduledTime”: “2024-05-03t17:05:00.000”,
“estimatedTime”: “2024-05-03t17:52:00.000”,
“actualTime”: “2024-05-03t17:48:00.000”,
“estimatedRunway”: “2024-05-03t17:48:00.000”,
“actualRunway”: “2024-05-03t17:48:00.000”
},
“arrival”: {
“iataCode”: “ber”,
“icaoCode”: “eddb”,
“terminal”: “1”,
“baggage”: “a2”,
“gate”: “y17”,
“delay”: 17,
“scheduledTime”: “2024-05-04t07:15:00.000”,
“estimatedTime”: “2024-05-04t07:30:00.000”,
“actualTime”: “2024-05-04t07:32:00.000”,
“estimatedRunway”: “2024-05-04t07:32:00.000”,
“actualRunway”: “2024-05-04t07:32:00.000”
},
“airline”: {
“name”: “air canada”,
“iataCode”: “ac”,
“icaoCode”: “aca”
},
“flight”: {
“number”: “3696”,
“iataNumber”: “ac3696”,
“icaoNumber”: “aca3696”
},
“codeshared”: {
“airline”: {
“name”: “united airlines”,
“iataCode”: “ua”,
“icaoCode”: “ual”
},
“flight”: {
“number”: “962”,
“iataNumber”: “ua962”,
“icaoNumber”: “ual962”
}
}
}
The Flight Delay API – Flight Cancellations and Flight Delay Prediction API
The Aviation Edge Flight Cancellation and Delay Prediction API provides historical data on flight cancellations and delays worldwide. This is an essential data source for flight compensation eligibility.
Our flight cancellation and delay data is available both in real-time and historically through two API endpoints, making it easy to access precisely the data you need.
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Use many filters available for an organized development experience. For all available endpoints, visit our documentation or use our quick GET tool to test the data.
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Go beyond live tracking by combining the Flight Delay Prediction API with real-time flight schedules, aircraft tracking and static datasets like aircraft details, airline info, and airport metadata. Compare and display the delay data of the flight in a single client or display delay and cancellation patterns in a more layered platform.
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