Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.3, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # AeroDataBox | Aviation and Flight Data Affordable aviation and flight data API tailored for small and medium businesses, individual developers and researchers ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://aerodatabox.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [News](https://aerodatabox.com/news/) - [Top 100 Busiest Flight Routes in January 2026](https://aerodatabox.com/top-100-busiest-flight-routes-january-2026/) - 100 busiest flight routes worldwide in January 2026 by total seat capacity as per data from AeroDataBox - Aviation and Flight Data API - [Flight Alert API: Guide to the New System](https://aerodatabox.com/flight-alert-api-2026/) - Flight Alert API allows your system or application to receive near real-time notifications whenever information about certain flight or flights gets updated. You create flight alert / web-hook subscriptions for flight numbers or airports, and our system sends updates to your web-hook endpoint whenever there is a relevant update. - [FAA LADD: New API & Compliance FAQ](https://aerodatabox.com/faa-ladd/) - The FAA LADD program allows aircraft operators to block their flight information from public display when sourced from FAA data services to protect privacy. In AeroDataBox we added a new endpoint that allows easily checking if aircraft is blocked by the LADD and created a compliance FAQ. - [Flight Alert API](https://aerodatabox.com/introduction-of-flight-alert-push-api/) - ⚠️ Flight Alert API - Notice of Major Update - January 31, 2026 We are transitioning this API to a new system. We are also changing how notification delivery retries work. Read more about it in this guide. We're excited to introduce a major new feature: the Flight Alert API. This feature fundamentally changes how - [FIDS with Extended Information, Flight Time and Distance](https://aerodatabox.com/fids-with-extended-information-flight-time-and-distance/) - There is some new stuff in the API that was implemented recently: FIDS endpoint now has additional query string boolean parameter "withLeg". When set to true, the response will contain times of arrival at destination for departing flights, and times of departure from the origin for arriving flights, if available. Please note, that the response - [Getting Flight Plan Data via Flight Status API](https://aerodatabox.com/flight-plans/) - Discover ATC-filed flight plans through AeroDataBox API. Flight route details, flight rules, altitude, airspeed—a new layer of insight to your aviation applications. - [New Pricing Plans $15 and $90 per month via API.Market](https://aerodatabox.com/new-pricing-plans-apimarket-2025/) - New Pro 2 & Ultra 2 plans now available! More flexibility, same affordability—exclusively on API.Market. Get 24K or 240K API units. Check them out today! - [Flight History of a Specific Flight & Improved Date Control for Flight Status API](https://aerodatabox.com/flight-history/) - New 'Flight History & Schedule' endpoint enables to retrieve the list of flights over a specified date range based on flight number, ATC call-sign, aircraft registration or Mode-S ICAO24 identifier—ideal for analyzing flight trends and operational patterns of a specific flight. - [The Power of Affordable Flight API for Businesses — Top 10 Options](https://aerodatabox.com/flight-api-2024/) - Discover the top flight API for developers in 2024, compare features and pricing to choose the best flight status and flight tracking API for your business needs. - [CrowdStrike Outage Effects on Worldwide Air Traffic](https://aerodatabox.com/crowdstrike-outage/) - On July 19, 2024, a software update from CrowdStrike caused a major disruption by triggering blue screens of death on Windows machines globally. This incident led to a widespread IT outage that impacted various sectors, including grounding commercial airline flights worldwide, taking Sky News offline, and disrupting 911 emergency call centers. We decided to take a look at statistics accumulated by AeroDataBox API during the day to see how much was the impact on the worldwide air traffic. - [Flight Time API Uses ML for Realistic Calculations](https://aerodatabox.com/ml-flight-time/) - Flight Time Calculation API has been enhanced with machine learning to offer more accurate flight time estimates by considering specific routes and aircraft types. This update allows more realistic estimate of flight time on certain routes, especially routes affected by major detours due to long-lasting airspace closures in war conflict zones or due to other regulatory restrictions. - [AeroDataBox is Now on API.Market](https://aerodatabox.com/now-on-api-market/) - We are pleased to announce that AeroDataBox API is now available on API.Market. To celebrate this, for this summer, we re-instated free access to our trial Basic plan through API.Market! - [Flight Delays with Percentiles](https://aerodatabox.com/flight-delays-with-percentiles/) - Our Flight Delays API endpoint now offering delay statistics across multiple percentiles, not just median. This update introduces insights into delay distributions at various levels, from the 5th to the 95th percentile. This way, you will be able to determine by how much the vast majority or minority of flights under a requested number were delayed/early, while "vast majority" and "vast minority" being the terms defined by you. - [August '23 Updates](https://aerodatabox.com/august-23-updates/) - We followed up on requests that we got from our customers and happy to announce a new batch of updates. New: Airline Fleet Endpoint It is now possible to get a list of aircraft per airline. No need for extra words, just check out our documentation :) This endpoint is paged and belongs to Tier - [FIDS Made Easier with Relative Time Ranges](https://aerodatabox.com/realtive-fids/) - You can now request flights from FIDS in easy relative fashion. For example: "give me all arrivals/departures starting from 2 hours ago for the next 12 hours". No more need to calculate the local time of the airport! - [Breaking Changes from October 1, 2023](https://aerodatabox.com/breaking-changes-2023-10/) - We are introducing several breaking changes to our API and are asking all our customers to adjust their application respectively as soon as possible. Summary of Changes Changes concern responses from the API only. Requests are not affected. All instances of local and UTC date-times currently represented as a pair of sibling fields suffixed or - [April '23 Updates: New Endpoints and Performance and Usability Improvements](https://aerodatabox.com/april-23-updates/) - Search airports by IP geolocation and Search airports by location endpoints now have query-string style counter-parts. If you’re on the most recent pricing plans, we recommend:using /airports/search/location?lat={lat}&lon={lon}&radiusKm={radiusKm}&limit={limit} instead of /airports/search/location/{lat}/{lon}/km/{radiusKm}/{limit} (documentation)using /airports/search/ip?q={ip}&radiusKm={radiusKm}&limit={limit} instead of /airports/search/ip/{ip}/km/{radiusKm}/{limit} (documentation)New endpoint added: Solar and day time at the airportGET /airports/{codeType}/{code}/time/solar/*It produces certain solar and daytime calculations and ultimately answers - [Geolocating Nearby Airports by IP](https://aerodatabox.com/geolocating-nearby-airports-by-ip/) - Our new endpoint allows geolocating nearby airports by IP address. We already have an endpoint returning nearest airports by making use of the coordinates (latitude and longitude) as an input. The new endpoint complements this set. It geolocates the coordinates internally by using the IP address as an input, and returns airports, closest to that - [Airline Codes for Flight Endpoints](https://aerodatabox.com/airline-codes-for-flight-endpoints/) - We now return ICAO and IATA airline codes as part of API responses from any flight endpoints, whether it is FIDS or flight status. Earlier, we only returned the name of the airline. The change will only apply to the flights, where the airline / operator could be correctly mapped. This is valid for the - [Introducing Historical Airport and Global Delays](https://aerodatabox.com/historical-airport-and-global-delays/) - We have significantly expanded the capabilities of our airport delays endpoint. This endpoint is designed to get a statistical insight of the "smoothness" of flight operations in this or that airport. Until recently, it only allowed you to trace this information in real-time only. We have now changed several things: [UPDATED] Airport delays endpoint now - [Introduction of the Terms of Use](https://aerodatabox.com/introduction-of-the-terms-of-use/) - We have done something we were supposed to do a long time ago: we have published proper Terms of Use for our API. From now on these terms will be applicable to everyone using our API, including existing and new subscribers. We understand it might be quite a boring read, but nevertheless, we encourage you - [Improved flight delay statistics, flight delay brackets and flight locations for FIDS](https://aerodatabox.com/improved-flight-delay-statistics-flight-delay-brackets-and-flight-locations-for-fids/) - We have updated our "Flight delay statistics by flight number" endpoint. Earlier delay records of the same flight number were grouped by origins and destinations. This way you could separately see how much the flight is delayed in each airport it departs from or arrives at. From now on, groups are as well segregated by - [Flight take-off and landing time &Runway detection based on ADS-B data, More flights, and status updates](https://aerodatabox.com/flight-take-off-and-landing-time-runway-detection-based-on-ads-b-data-more-flights-and-status-updates/) - We are continuing to expand capabilities related to analyzing actual flight tracks with reliance on community-maintained ADS-B data provided by third-party. Attentive users could have already noticed that for some airports AeroDataBox API has started providing: Flight runway data, which we introduced as a response to requests of a few users to have some capabilities - [Searching for Flight Status by ATC Call-sign, Aircraft Registration or Aircraft 24-bit ICAO Mode-S transponder address](https://aerodatabox.com/searching-for-flight-status-by-atc-call-sign-aircraft-registration-or-aircraft-24-bit-icao-mode-s-transponder-address/) - We are introducing more capabilities to search for flight status. From now on, you can look for individual flight information not only by flight number but also by ATC call-sign, registration or 24-bit ICAO Mode-S hexadecimal transponder address of the aircraft operating the flight. New search capabilities are delivered by introducing new endpoints: Flight by - [Adding USA Live Flights Coverage, Adding Mode-S Transponder Code, COVID-19 Changes, Airport Daily Statistic Routes Update](https://aerodatabox.com/adding-usa-live-flights-coverage-adding-mode-s-transponder-code-covid-19-changes-airport-daily-statistic-routes-update/) - Here are some updates regarding the API made in recent weeks: USA LIVE FLIGHTS COVERAGE We have integrated live flight updates for the airports in the USA, which is a huge live flight data coverage expansion (almost 400%). Updates are based on flight plan data and include aircraft registration and model, flight status, scheduled, estimated - [New Year Updates](https://aerodatabox.com/new-year-updates/) - Dear users, We have several updates: [NEW] "Search airports by location" endpoint is added. It allows finding airports situated within a certain radius around the location specified. More: https://rapid.aerodatabox.com?endpoint=apiendpoint_d16d709c-fa01-4be7-87e2-050142c4d24e.[NEW] "Airports supporting data feed service" health-check & status endpoint is added. It's designed to get a list of ICAO codes of airports for which we have - [Airport Runways and Airport Routes Daily Statistics](https://aerodatabox.com/airport-runways-and-airport-routes-daily-statistics/) - A few more endpoints were added to the AeroDataBox API: 1) Airport runways by airport ICAO Runways data was revised and updated for airports currently existing in the database. Therefore, data about heading, surface, width, threshold position, displacement, and operation of the runways are available. You can also get runway information (as well as local - [Flight Status & Schedule, Flight Delay Statistics, FIDS, Airport Delay Index](https://aerodatabox.com/flight-status-schedule-flight-delay-statistics-fids-airport-delay-index/) - We've been recently busy adding a few more endpoints to the AeroDataBox API. Now you are able to: Get flight status or schedule for a specific date as well as for the nearest flight;Get flight delay statistics;Get departures and arrivals list per airport and within a given time range (FIDS);Get current airport delay statistics (delay ## Pages - [Aviation and Flight Data API — AeroDataBox](https://aerodatabox.com/) - Aviation and flight API tailored for SMBs and individual developers. Simple integration via popular API marketplaces into your application at affordable rates. - [API Pricing](https://aerodatabox.com/pricing/) - Sign up for the AeroDataBox API at fees as low as a cup of coffee! Choose from multiple public API marketplaces, each offering flexible pricing to fit your needs. See details below. - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://aerodatabox.com/faq/) - FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Is it good for my case? AeroDataBox is a niche aviation and flight data API with certain openly communicated limitations. When it comes to our services, we generally try to under-promise and over-deliver. In fact, at times our service may exceed those of other more expensive providers. But is a niche - [Airport Delays](https://aerodatabox.com/api-airport-delays/) - How it Works - Airport Delays Airport delays API endpoints allow answering the questions, like How many flights are delayed or canceled right now or in past? or What is the delay statistics and delay index at an airport now or back then? These endpoints are designed to get a statistical insight into the overall - [For Students & Researchers](https://aerodatabox.com/students/) - We provide discounted or completely free-of-charge API keys to students and researchers to help them with their work. - [Datasets](https://aerodatabox.com/shop/) - Aviation datasets webshop ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://aerodatabox.com/category/uncategorized/) - [Legal](https://aerodatabox.com/category/legal/) - [New Features](https://aerodatabox.com/category/new-features/) - [Other](https://aerodatabox.com/category/other/) - [Blog](https://aerodatabox.com/category/blog/)