Would cancelled flights only ever appear in scheduled flights?
Yes I wouldn’t expect to see them in any of the other categories unless we temporarily have them enroute or departed because they left the gate, then cancelled before takeoff.
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So they won’t show in FlightInfoStatus either? Meaning querying AirlineFlightSchedules for departuretime == -1 is the only way to determine if a flight has been cancelled?
They would appear in FlightInfoStatus with cancelled set to true. For example for UCA4923 there was a flight cancellation for flight UCA4923-1502429146-airline-0331. For that flight the cancelled field is set to true.
Are you sure? I just tried the following request:
https://flightxml.flightaware.com/json/FlightXML3/FlightInfoStatus?ident=UCA4923-1502429146-airline-0331
and am seeing this response:
{"error":"NOTFOUND: Failed to load flight"}
Ok yes apparently if you pass in a faFlightID for the ident we do not return the cancelled flight. I just pushed a fix for that so it’ll be fixed sometime next week.
Great, thanks! FYI it also doesn’t work if you pass in ident@departureEpoch:
https://flightxml.flightaware.com/json/FlightXML3/FlightInfoStatus?ident=UCA4923%401502462580
^ returns the same “NOTFOUND: Failed to load flight” error.
Yep that one uses the same function too which I updated so they’ll both be fixed.
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