Push Vs Pull Pricing

Hello,

Is the pricing for Push Vs Pull option the same as listed on the link below:
flightaware.com/commercial/fligh … _class.rvt

Please confirm.

That page is accurate. Each attempted delivery of an alert is billed as one “PushAlert” in that table. Is that what you were asking?

We have an application which will receive the alerts from your ‘Push Notification’ services. However, we cannot find any pricing for this service. This post http://discussions.flightaware.com/flightxml/flight-alerts-cost-t20800.html suggests the pricing is the same for push and pull.

Is this accurate?

You cannot compare the costs and say they are “the same”, since the usage model is completely different.

The cost of each delivered alert is shown in that table as “PushAlert”, which is a class 2 charge. This cost applies to each individual alert notification for a flight that is attempted for delivery. To set up the alert, you must also call “SetAlert” at least once, which is a class 3 charge.

For all other pull requests, the cost will be a class 1, class 2, class 3, or class 4 request depending on which function you’re calling. Alerts only offer notification of flight events and don’t offer all of the information available through all of the other pull requests (weather, airport details, route conversion, distance, etc), so don’t assume it will be a strict choice of one mode or the other.

Thanks for the info bovineone.

You mentioned that push notifications may not contain all the info. But say I want to receive just the data present in the sample notification as mentioned here (flightaware.com/commercial/fligh … ation2.rvt), how can I control how many push notifications will be attempted? Just wanted to estimate the cost. Also would it be possible to combine multiple events together to save cost?

If you don’t want as many alerts, just don’t request all of the event types. You will of course miss out on receiving those types of events. Also be specific about which individual flight(s) you actually need, rather than just subscribing to all flights at a specific airport.