Retrieve international enroute flights into specific airport

FlightAware AeroAPI
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Hi. I have been trying to get all current international enroute flights in Melbourne Airport (YMML).

I have tried the Enroute API which I thought was for all current flights in the air with their ETA. However, the data being retrieved has times that are over a week old.

Can anyone advise if there is a way to do this? I really want international flights with ETA not STA.

$params = array(
“airport” => “YMML”,
“howMany” => 15,
“offset” => 0,
“filter” => “”);
$result = $client->Enroute($params);

Thanks Paul

2

The “Enroute” function returns flights already in the air heading towards the specified airport and also flights scheduled to arrive at the specified airport. Enroute flights are returned from soonest estimated arrival to least soon estimated arrival. Some of the flights will be current ones, and some will be past ones (up to 2 weeks old at most).

Generally speaking, the returned flights will be similar but not strictly identical to the flights listed on the “enroute” tab of our website: flightaware.com/live/airport/YMML/enroute

3

Thank you for the quick response. I have matched my data retrieved for the last 15 flights and they match the sample you linked me to.

However, in my data the EPOCH time retrieved in the XML response places the date 7 days old. Would that be correct? Melbourne is busy enough to have 15 flights on the same day the query is run. If I take a sample from the XML response -

[8] => Array
(
[ident] => QFA30
[aircrafttype] => A333
[actualdeparturetime] => 0
[estimatedarrivaltime] => 1484083260 (This was run today Wed 18th Jan)
[filed_departuretime] => 1484049000
[origin] => VHHH
[destination] => YMML
[originName] => Hong Kong Int’l
[originCity] => Hong Kong
[destinationName] => Melbourne Tullamarine
[destinationCity] => Melbourne, Victoria
)

If I convert the EPOCH time it comes back with -

GMT: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:21:00 GMT
Your time zone: 1/11/2017, 8:21:00 AM GMT+11:00 DST

I just want to understand if I am doing something wrong. Or if I just add a week to the date stamp.

Cheers Paul

4

That’s interesting. I’ll have to investigate the specific problem with the Enroute function.

However, if you’re actually just interested in flights that are currently flying, it may be easier for you to use the “Search” function with a query of something like “-destination YMML -inAir 1”. For example:

flightxml.flightaware.com/json/ … -inAir%201

5

Interestingly, we were doing some more testing of the Enroute function and when we change the Offset to 23, it gave us he result we were hoping for.

Still more testing to do to be sure. But just thought I would let you know. Cheers Paul