Product news, feature announcements, and updates from the AeroDataBox team.https://aerodatabox.com/en-ushttps://aerodatabox.com/top-100-busiest-flight-routes-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 APIMon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTairlinesbusiest routesstatisticshttps://aerodatabox.com/flight-alert-api-credit-billing/https://aerodatabox.com/flight-alert-api-credit-billing/We are transitioning Flight Alert API to a new credit-based billing system. Subscriptions become free and never expire; instead, you pay per notification delivered. Existing users must migrate before April 4, 2026.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTFlight Alert APIBillinghttps://aerodatabox.com/flight-plans/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.Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTflight planflight statusnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/new-pricing-plans-apimarket-2025/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!Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTapimarketmarketplacepricinghttps://aerodatabox.com/flight-history/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.Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTflight historyflight scheduleflight statusnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/flight-api-2024/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.Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTflight apimarkethttps://aerodatabox.com/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!Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTapimarketmarketplacehttps://aerodatabox.com/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.Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTflight delay statisticsnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/realtive-fids/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!Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTfidsflight statusnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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 TierSat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTairline fleetfidsflight statusnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/breaking-changes-2023-10/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 orFri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTbreaking changesfidsflight locationflight statushttps://aerodatabox.com/april-23-updates/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 answersMon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTairport codesairport searchfidsflight statusgeolocationnew featuresweatherhttps://aerodatabox.com/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 thatTue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTgeolocationnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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 theMon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTairline-codesfidsflight statusnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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 nowWed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTairport delay indexnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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 bySat, 09 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTadsbfidsflight delay statisticsflight locationnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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 capabilitiesThu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTadsbflight statusnew featuresrunway detectionhttps://aerodatabox.com/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 byWed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTflight searchflight statusnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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, estimatedFri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTadsbairport routes daily statisticscovid19fidslikelycancellednew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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 responseWed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTdistancefidsnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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 haveFri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMTadsbfidshealthchecknew featuressearch airports by locationhttps://aerodatabox.com/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 localThu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTairport routes daily statisticsairport runwaysnew featureshttps://aerodatabox.com/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 (delayMon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTairport delay indexfidsflight statusnew featuresstatistics