AVIATION INTELLIGENCE.
Historical flight data
Drive business strategy and deliver the level of predictive innovations that are redefining the travel ecosystem, with our flight history database for accurate on-time performance.
- A unique historical flight database including schedules statistics for millions of flights dating back to 2004.
- Constantly updated with live status data
- Accessible via multiple delivery solutions
- Look up the historical flight data you need by date, by airport, or by airline
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What's in the data
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Key data points
- Core Schedule information e.g. carrier, flight number, flight departure time and flight arrival data, flight date, departure/destination airports
- Estimate and actual times for gates
- Estimate and actual times for runway
- Flight delays, cancelations, diversions and recovery
- Aircraft type and tail number
- Departure/arrival gates and terminals
- Check-in desk and baggage carousel
- Codeshare
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Data sources
- Airlines
- Airports
- ADS-B
- FAA
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Data frequency
- Near real-time
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Configurable by
- Airline
- Airport
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Data time range
- 2004 - present
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Data delivery
- Flight Info API
- Flight Info Direct
- Flight Leg Report
Pick the format that fits your stack
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Flight Info API
Our Flight Information API is powered by the most modern format (RESTful JSON API) to deliver near real-time flight schedule data frequency for airlines, giving you access to the freshest available data, and allowing you to adapt confidently to flight changes as they happen.
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Flight Info Direct
By working in close collaboration with Snowflake, the modern cloud-based data warehouse, we can give you fast access to rich insights and remove your need for ongoing data engineering, manual file uploads, and software upgrades, allowing you to expand your data footprint with ease.
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Aviation analytics
Get a clearer view of capacity, airfares and passenger demand so you can spot opportunities sooner and make stronger commercial, operational and market decisions, powered by the industry’s most trusted aviation data.
One data set, hundreds of ways to use it
Market
insights
Make investment decisions, plan resources and manage risk through rich data analysis of passenger flow and market demand. With historic flight schedules, receive information on flight delay history and cancelations.
Identify opportunities
Create a robust trading position for your business with a trusted view of the entire aviation market. Explore our historical flight database and statistics, including airline ticket data, to spot expansion and development opportunities across the industry.
Risk
management
Stay ahead of claims and assets with historical flight statistics in the form of detailed and accurate flight delay history data and historical flight arrival times. Examine airline, airport and route performance to drive decisions and plan your future strategy.
Predictive modelling
Spot competitive advantages, test all your assumptions, and build useful models to support theories using the most accurate and comprehensive historical flight data, with key details and insights from 2004 to the present.
Goes well
with
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Frequently asked questions
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How can the historical data be accessed or delivered?
OAG’s Historical Flight Data can be unlocked via Flight Info API, Flight Info Direct, and by Flight Leg Report, providing versatile gateways to accessing the most comprehensive and trusted historical flight data on the market.
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How often is the historical database refreshed?
OAG’s Historical Flight Data is updated in near real-time, surfacing the freshest data as it happens.
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How many years of historical data do you cover?
OAG’s Historical Flight Data spans back to 2004 to the present day, uncovering over two decades' worth of comprehensive insight to analyse then and now.
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What are some of the use cases historical flight data is best suited to?
OAG’s Historical Flight Data is best suited for use cases requiring high data accuracy, such as trend analysis, route performance evaluation, and analyzing flight patterns over time. Historical Flight Data is often used for market insights, identifying commercial and strategic opportunities, analysing risk management, building predictive modelling, and much more.
