Historical Flight Schedules API
Get global historical flight schedule data with our REST API
Aviation Edge Historical Flight Schedules API provides detailed JSON data on historical airport timetables. The data is on a global scale, covering airports in any part of the world. Get historical data based on a specific date or a date range in the past with very fast API response times.
- Departure and arrival delays
- Cancellations
- Flight details
- Dates and timestamps
- Airline details
- Flight number, gate, terminal
- Codeshared flight numbers
Data Included In The Historical Schedules API
Access the full historical timetable data of any airport—arrivals or departures—with a single API call, or track individual flights using flexible filters. You can also get all flights of a specific airline or filter flights by origin or destination.
- 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 Historical Flight Schedules 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.
The historical data continues to grow each day, making the Historical Airport Schedules API perfect for creating statistics and maintaining dynamic databases that can be updated every day.
Historical Airport Schedules API Output - Developer Information
The schedule of an airport on a date range:
(Use “&date_from” only for a single date)
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=[API_KEY]&code=JFK&type=departure
&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&date_to=YYYY-MM-DD
Only flights with a certain status:
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
Track a certain flight history:
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 flight history:
https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/flightsHistory?key=[API_KEY]&code=JFK&type=arrival&date_from=YYYY-MM-DD&&airline_iata=TK
…and many more filters available.
Response Example
Airport
Airline
Individual Flight
{
“airline”: {
“iataCode”: “OS”,
“icaoCode”: “AUA”,
“name”: “Austrian”
},
“arrival”: {
“actualRunway”: “2025-01-17T09:49:00.000”,
“actualTime”: “2025-01-17T09:49:00.000”,
“baggage”: null,
“delay”: null,
“estimatedRunway”: “2025-01-17T09:49:00.000”,
“estimatedTime”: “2025-01-17T09:53:00.000”,
“gate”: “A7”,
“iataCode”: “MAN”,
“icaoCode”: “EGCC”,
“scheduledTime”: “2025-01-17T10:20:00.000”,
“terminal”: “2”
},
“codeshared”: {
“airline”: {
“iataCode”: “lh”,
“icaoCode”: “dlh”,
“name”: “lufthansa”
},
“flight”: {
“iataNumber”: “lh2500”,
“icaoNumber”: “dlh2500”,
“number”: “2500”
}
},
“departure”: {
“actualRunway”: “2025-01-17T09:12:00.000”,
“actualTime”: “2025-01-17T09:12:00.000”,
“baggage”: null,
“delay”: “7”,
“estimatedRunway”: “2025-01-17T09:12:00.000”,
“estimatedTime”: “2025-01-17T09:17:00.000”,
“gate”: “H30”,
“iataCode”: “MUC”,
“icaoCode”: “EDDM”,
“scheduledTime”: “2025-01-17T09:05:00.000”,
“terminal”: “2”
},
“flight”: {
“iataNumber”: “OS7373”,
“icaoNumber”: “AUA7373”,
“number”: “7373”
},
“status”: “landed”,
“type”: “arrival”
}
Access the Historical Flight Schedules API – Fast and Complete Historical Timetable Data
Access accurate historical airport and flight schedule data to power your aviation tools, analytics, and travel services. Our Historical Airport Schedules API provides the same detailed information as our real-time Schedules API, now available for past flight data.
✅ Query by date or date range (up to 30 days)
✅ Get scheduled, estimated, and actual times for both flight and runway
✅ Includes terminal, baggage, and codeshare details
Use Cases:
Analyze air traffic trends by airport, route, country, or region
Build passenger-facing apps with accurate past flight information
Create statistics for academic or commercial research (e.g., travel patterns during COVID-19)
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Aviation Edge currently provides its clients with Real-Time Flight Tracker API, Nearby Service API, Satellite Tracker, Routes API, Schedules API, Autocompletion Service API as dynamic data; and Historical Airport Schedules API, Airlines API, Airplanes API, Airport API, City API, Country API and Taxes API regarding static data.
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