GetLastTrack - no data available

FlightAware AeroAPI
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I am calling Arrived for a particular airport (KSFO) and for each arrived flight I call GetLastTrack using the ‘ident’ field received from the ArrivedResult.

I am getting a large percentage of results as ‘no data available’.

These are flights that are coming from rather common locations in the US (like Seattle, Monterey and such), nothing exotic.

The documentation states that I can use “ident@departureTime” with GetHistoricalTrack. Is this departureTime the same as actualdeparturetime in the ArrivedResultStruct? I tried that and it didn’t work. So if not the same, where do I get this 'departureTime"?

Am I doing something wrong in this use case? Missing the tracks of a large percentage of Arrived tracks is really not acceptable in my application.

Thank you.

2

Do you have some examples of the idents you are receiving this for?
Here is a similar thread that may help answers some of your questions.

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Here is a sample I just processed. These flights all returned “no data available”.




ident	aircrafttype	actualdeparturetime	actualarrivaltime	origin	destination	originName	originCity	destinationName	destinationCity
UAL2011	B739	1445911916	1445915783	KSAN	KSFO	San Diego Intl	San Diego, CA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
ASA304	B734	1445909940	1445915691	KSEA	KSFO	Seattle-Tacoma Intl	Seattle, WA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
N191VE	C560	1445911440	1445914921	KVNY	KSFO	Van Nuys	Van Nuys, CA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
AAL1071	B738	1445909170	1445912340	KLAX	KSFO	Los Angeles Intl	Los Angeles, CA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
ASA223	B739	1445898582	1445910557	MMPR	KSFO	Lic. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz Int'l	Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA

I read the referenced thread but it is not clear to me how it can help. The original poster’s last post reported a 19% failure rate but there was no follow up from FlightAware.

Thank you.

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I just did another run, here are the list of tracks that returned “data not available”, 22 out of 75 requests.



ident	aircrafttype	actualdeparturetime	actualarrivaltime	origin	destination	originName	originCity	destinationName	destinationCity
ROU1846	A319	1445917751	1445924100	CYVR	KSFO	Vancouver Int'l	Vancouver, British Columbia	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SWA450	B737	1445908260	1445923320	KMDW	KSFO	Chicago Midway Intl	Chicago, IL	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
AAL1183	A321	1445909150	1445923115	KDFW	KSFO	Dallas/Fort Worth Intl	Dallas-Fort Worth, TX	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
FFT667	A320	1445914920	1445922948	KDEN	KSFO	Denver Intl	Denver, CO	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
AMX664	7S8	1445907518	1445922781	MMMX	KSFO	Lic. Benito Juarez Int'l	Mexico City	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
UAL1699	B739	1445908897	1445922448	KIAH	KSFO	Houston Bush Int'ctl	Houston, TX	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SKW5237	E170	1445913542	1445921663	CYYC	KSFO	Calgary Int'l	Calgary, Alberta	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SKW5385	CRJ	1445916720	1445921280	KRDM	KSFO	Roberts Field	Redmond, OR	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SKW5260	CRJ	1445918520	1445921280	KBFL	KSFO	Meadows Field	Bakersfield, CA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
UAL1251	B752	1445900400	1445920959	KEWR	KSFO	Newark Liberty Intl	Newark, NJ	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SKW5451	CRJ	1445918760	1445920860	KSBP	KSFO	San Luis County Rgnl	San Luis Obispo, CA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SKW5583	CRJ7	1445914920	1445920800	KSEA	KSFO	Seattle-Tacoma Intl	Seattle, WA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
CPA872	B77W	1445879522	1445920663	VHHH	KSFO	Hong Kong Int'l	Hong Kong	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
DAL241	B752	1445903692	1445920289	KATL	KSFO	Hartsfield-Jackson Intl	Atlanta, GA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SKW5363	CRJ	1445916420	1445920020	KONT	KSFO	Ontario Intl	Ontario, CA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
UAL712	B739	1445901109	1445919822	KIAD	KSFO	Washington Dulles Intl	Washington, DC	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SKW5601	E170	1445913597	1445919587	KPHX	KSFO	Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl	Phoenix, AZ	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
UAL384	A320	1445915400	1445919501	KSAN	KSFO	San Diego Intl	San Diego, CA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
SKW6252	CRJ	1445914980	1445919360	KEUG	KSFO	Mahlon Sweet Field	Eugene, OR	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
UAL1762	A320	1445898780	1445919120	KPHL	KSFO	Philadelphia Intl	Philadelphia, PA	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
UAL1152	B752	1445902560	1445918880	PHLI	KSFO	Lihue	Lihue, HI	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
UAL715	A319	1445904780	1445918760	KSTL	KSFO	Lambert-St Louis Intl	St Louis, MO	San Francisco Intl	San Francisco, CA
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Hi,
have you recently got “no data available” with GetLastTrack or GetHistoricalTrack?
There have been some improvements to GetHistoricalTrack recently so we are definitely interested in your feedback.
I must say GetLastTrack is expected to work for flights on the same day, ideally enroute flights. It is not guaranteed to retrieve flight track data from yesterday. So if there is a scheduled flight today but you are trying to get data for yesterday’s completed flight then we recommend GetHistoricalTrack.
We are considering merging the two calls in our future version of FlightXML.