Lookup a single flight by faFlightID

FlightAware AeroAPI
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I’ve been using the FlightXML2 API for a while now. Overall I really like it. There is one strange omission that is easily worked around by filtering the returned data but still seems like it should be supported.

If I know the faFlightID of a flight, I should be able to lookup a single flight by that ID. Right now if I want the information returned by FlightInfoEx for that flight, I have to make a call to FlightInfoEx with the ident for the flight, and then filter the list of results for the one with the matching faFlightID that I’m interested in.

Please add a new method to get equivalent information to FlightInfoEx but with a faFlightID as the input, or add a filter to FlightInfoEx that can be specified in the request itself. It seems like a looking up a single flight should also be billed at a lower rate to calling FlightInfoEx which can return many results.

Thanks!

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You should now be able to use FlightInfoEx to query by faFlightID. It will only return the single flight, rather than a list of multiple. The price is still the same, since it’s still basically the same amount of work for us to generate the results.

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Great, I really appreciate the addition and how receptive your team is to suggestions!

While I understand that the price will be the same (probably for simplicity sake), it would be nice in the future if there was a cheaper way to get this information. If it was indexed differently it seems like it should be cheaper on your side to retrieve info for a single flight than many. Or perhaps depending on the value of the howMany parameter, you could bill fractions of a request (1/15th for 1 flight result compared to the usual 15 results).

Anyway, thanks again!