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Schedulded flights

#1

I’m a developer trying to know if this is the right service my client needs to be able to show the user flight number for arrivals flughts. The form will ask for:

  • airport: [fixed value]
  • airline: [dropdown list]
  • arravial date: [________]
  • flight number: [dopdown list] <-- this one will be empty untill arrival date is selected

Once the user fills in the arrival date, I would like to fetch all the flight numbers that will arrive to that airport on that date. Date will never be way too in the future (within 1 or 2 months max).

Is this possible?

I think this is possible with FlightXML3/ AirlineFlightSchedules BUT it’s asking me to switch to the silver membership. I’m just the developer and I’m just testing to confirm this is the right tool to use.

Is there a way to switch memberships without paying just to test and confirm?

Thank you.

#2

I’m adding an image to easily understand what we need to show as a dropdown list instead of the open text field

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#3

This could be handled by the AirlineFlightSchedules endpoint. It allows for schedule look-ups up to one year in the future. The list of flight numbers flight number could be built from the ident fields in the result.

However, the time range search is based on departure time, not arrival time. This means the search will likely need to be extended back from the supplied arrival time. If possible, having an origin airport also specified will greatly reduce the number of potential results.

Here’s an example that searches for a Southwest flights from ATL to DAL on November 1st (UTC).
http://flightxml.flightaware.com/json/FlightXML3/AirlineFlightSchedules?start_date=1572566400&end_date=1572652800&origin=KATL&destination=KDAL&airline=SWA

{
    "AirlineFlightSchedulesResult": {
        "next_offset": -1,
        "flights": [
            {
                "ident": "SWA580",
                "actual_ident": "",
                "departuretime": 1572570900,
                "arrivaltime": 1572578700,
                "origin": "KATL",
                "destination": "KDAL",
                "aircrafttype": "B738",
                "meal_service": "Economy: No meal",
                "seats_cabin_first": 0,
                "seats_cabin_business": 0,
                "seats_cabin_coach": 175
            },
            {
                "ident": "SWA1296",
                "actual_ident": "",
                "departuretime": 1572606000,
                "arrivaltime": 1572613500,
                "origin": "KATL",
                "destination": "KDAL",
                "aircrafttype": "B737",
                "meal_service": "Economy: No meal",
                "seats_cabin_first": 0,
                "seats_cabin_business": 0,
                "seats_cabin_coach": 143
            },
            {
                "ident": "SWA246",
                "actual_ident": "",
                "departuretime": 1572619200,
                "arrivaltime": 1572627000,
                "origin": "KATL",
                "destination": "KDAL",
                "aircrafttype": "B737",
                "meal_service": "Economy: No meal",
                "seats_cabin_first": 0,
                "seats_cabin_business": 0,
                "seats_cabin_coach": 143
            },
            {
                "ident": "SWA1842",
                "actual_ident": "",
                "departuretime": 1572648900,
                "arrivaltime": 1572657000,
                "origin": "KATL",
                "destination": "KDAL",
                "aircrafttype": "B737",
                "meal_service": "Economy: No meal",
                "seats_cabin_first": 0,
                "seats_cabin_business": 0,
                "seats_cabin_coach": 143
            },
            {
                "ident": "SWA2510",
                "actual_ident": "",
                "departuretime": 1572636300,
                "arrivaltime": 1572644400,
                "origin": "KATL",
                "destination": "KDAL",
                "aircrafttype": "B738",
                "meal_service": "Economy: No meal",
                "seats_cabin_first": 0,
                "seats_cabin_business": 0,
                "seats_cabin_coach": 175
            }
        ]
    }
}