About

OpenFlights is a tool that lets you map your flights around the world, search and filter them in all sorts of interesting ways, calculate statistics automatically, and share your flights and trips with friends and the entire world (if you wish). It's also the name of the open-source project to build the tool. Read more about it in the FAQ.

Having completed its Alpha, Beta and Gamma test phases, OpenFlights is now in its Delta phase: all core functionality is implemented, but development on new features continues. If you'd like to be informed about major updates to the site, subscribe to our blog or follow us on your favorite social networking/microblogging site:

To get in touch with the team behind OpenFlights, send mail to info at openflights dot org or info at contentshare at sg.

Site statistics


Generated on
2010-09-06 00:00:01

Registered users 5609 Total flights 460056 Flights added yesterday 622
Top 10 users by flights
All time
40303 allflights 4410 dalmas 2396 Ailette 1932 cwtwa2 1915 cubalibre 1828 Ricano 1818 FlightsOfHolger 1501 Guayaquil 1460 andymcgeachy 1427 Cyba

Last week
1130 jumpseat2l 422 Damsss 374 erwash 368 alfisto 313 gbkhung 298 josmon10 259 NHathi 252 michaelw 247 docrok 223 yuan

Yesterday
176 nuno 133 Pistike 37 mauved 34 mdelageb 27 franky85 24 maxlmn 18 flying79 18 mannequin 16 Damsss 14 redlegsfan21
Top 10 users by miles
All time
43809906 allflights 4867119 manureva744 3977999 Ailette 2550940 Pochita 2545840 FlightsOfHolger 2517248 Barry49 2514096 Nogougo 2461876 tfung 2448564 mendis105 2240456 dalmas

Last week
1707223 Damsss 1349801 jumpseat2l 731702 gbkhung 443186 erwash 377952 docrok 353708 josmon10 267825 alfisto 254420 Pistike 247270 NHathi 245614 michaelw

Yesterday
254420 Pistike 124131 nuno 66338 Damsss 55301 maxlmn 53219 mauved 44196 mdelageb 30696 franky85 26292 CoRfr 22906 FelipeH 17283 mannequin
Top 10 users by popularity
All time
4261 ichliebefliegen 3711 jpatokal 2892 SmilingBoy 2601 puerrtto 2490 mersk862 2131 apoivre 1785 ralfp 1691 IceBoss 1456 Leadership 1202 Ailette
Top 10 routes		
MEL ↔	SYD	  1625
CGN ↔	MUC	  1116
SFO ↔	LAX	  1095
FRA ↔	MUC	  1060
FRA ↔	LHR	  1009
LHR ↔	CDG	   999
LHR ↔	JFK	   957
FRA ↔	TXL	   953
DRS ↔	FRA	   927
FRA ↔	AMS	   864
Top 10 airlines	
Lufthansa           	 25428
United Airlines     	 23993
American Airlines   	 19420
Delta Air Lines     	 18768
Continental Airlines	 16702
Air France          	 11801
British Airways     	 11036
Ryanair             	 10382
Northwest Airlines  	 10123
US Airways          	  9602
Top 10 airports		
Frankfurt Main      	FRA	 26105
Heathrow            	LHR	 24385
Chicago Ohare Intl  	ORD	 19992
Charles De Gaulle   	CDG	 16134
Los Angeles Intl    	LAX	 15638
Franz Josef Strauss 	MUC	 14859
Schiphol            	AMS	 13959
Hartsfield Jackson A	ATL	 13532
John F Kennedy Intl 	JFK	 13265
San Francisco Intl  	SFO	 13023

Recent changes

2010-08-22

* Bugfix: Password sometimes exposed in URL after login (2915139)
* SQL optimization for banner generation, user status up/downgrades

2010-08-14

* Facebook app reworked to use application tab instead of profile box

2010-07-10

* Bugfix: E-mail address validation is too strict (3026793)

2010-06-15

* Bugfix: Facebook fatal error when adding app (3014614)
* Bugfix: BHD (Belfast City Airport) won't display (3015921)

2010-05-04

* Feature: Automated password resets (2915137)
* Bugfix: Unable to change password (2918400)

2010-04-24

* Bugfix: Wrong airport listed in Analyze -> Airport Records (2982048)
* Bugfix: Arrival time overwritten if airports entered afterwards (2986989)
* YYYY-MM-DD format now used consistently for dates
* Test cases updated

2010-04-15

* Bugfix: Flight duration shown as NaN and won't allow saving the flt (2986974)

2010-04-07

* Bugfix: Trip edit/delete broken (2823849)
* Bugfix: DST computed correctly for first day

2010-02-17

* Fixes to SQL schema creation, data loader
* PHP backend revised to use $_GET/POST instead of $HTTP_GET/POST_VARS
* Updated OpenFlights widget documentation

2010-02-08

* Soft launch of OpenFlights widget

2010-01-27

* "Reset" tab added to Facebook app
* Bugfix: Facebook app now requires offline_access, stores session correctly
* Bugfix: Facebook should display distances based on user preferences (2931556)

2010-01-14

* Update and cleanup sql directory
* Remove GAD from distribution

2010-01-13

* Bugfix: Distance/duration display not getting cleared when exiting edit mode
* Bugfix: Facebook app "View map" link broken

2010-01-08

* Clean up GC rendering code a bit
* Bugfix: Loading selected airport actually works now
* Bugfix: Flights rendered by reported distance, not actual distance (2911041)
* Feature: Keep private trips really private (2924818)

2010-01-07

* Add airport search button to airport popups
* Selected airport loaded into search when clicking plane icon
* Allow prev/next through airport query results until user actually initiates a new search
* Cleaner handling of edit/non-edit mode for airport selection
* Unit test cases for PHP helper functions
* Bugfix: Airline editor bugs for user-entered airlines (2921315)

2009-01-06

* Facebook app migrated from template bundles to stream publishing
* Bugfix: Facebook caching buggy (2924046)

2009-12-30

* Assume two-char tabbed quick searches are airlines
* Added favicons for About, Donate, FAQ
* Bugfix: Completely reworked handling of tabs before autocompletion (2921386)
* Bugfix: Do not return airlines after a successful airport match in limit-1 quicksearch (2921386)
* Bugfix: Fix tabbed quick searches for airlines (2920325)

2009-12-11

* December route map update
* News separated from index.php

2009-12-04

* Bugfix: Fixed geographical (NASA) map layer

2009-11-30

* Bugfix: Tabs (and other whitespace) trimmed from flight number, seat, reg

2009-10-22

* Bugfix: Editing corrupted flight distances in km
* Bugfix: Around the world distance computed incorrectly for km (2826981)

2009-10-21

* Optimized 'main airport in cluster' algorithm (last is always largest)
* Add cluster mark, fix airport order in cluster tooltips

2009-10-20

* Upgraded to OpenLayers 2.8 RC5
* Added labels and tooltips to airports (2515935)
* Implemented clustering strategy
* Replaced NavToolbar control with Navigation control
* Bugfix: Ghosted airports show up funny in IE (2529004)

2009-10-14

* Updated route map database

2009-10-06

* Editing of existing airlines implemented
* Display whether or not airline is active in search
* Filter out non-active airlines from IATA searches
* Bugfix: Pre-entering airline, mode into "New airline" dialog fixed

2009-08-18

* Bugfix: Debugging alertbox removed from Trip editor

2009-08-14

* Bugfix: Future flights imported correctly from FlightMemory

2009-08-10

* Bugfix: Decimal timezones accidentally truncated in duration calculations

2009-07-23

* Bugfix: Correct nasty bug in handling km conversions in some locales (1.6 was turning into 1,6)

2009-07-23

* Launched Spanish (es) and Portuguese (pt)
* Bugfix: Correct airport dialog popped up when autocompleting preexisting airport
* Bugfix: Default to codeshares off when first showing airline map
* Bugfix: Tab indexes for main screen (first username block, only then quicksearch)
* Bugfix: mi/km indicated for Longest/Shortest flight in "Analyze"

2009-07-21

* Plane name added to registration automatically for FlightMemory imports
* Add byte-order mark to CSV exports so Excel understands that they're UTF-8
* Workaround: Non-ASCII characters stripped from FM imports before parsing (2824341)
* Bugfix: Suppress PHP warnings for missing airports/airlines

2009-07-20

* Bugfix: Trip edit/delete broken (2823849)

2009-07-18

* Airline maps default to direct only, codeshares can be enabled in filter
* Non-IATA airlines now filtered out from quicksearch
* Inactive airlines now filtered out from quicksearch
* No map resizing when routemap airline filter is changed
* Bugfix: Airport location shown even when there are no routes

2009-07-17

* Lithuanian updated
* Bugfix: Airline maps gray out all airports with codeshares (2822898)

2009-07-14

* Quick search now supports airlines
* Airline filter can now be used for airport route maps
* Codeshare flights now shown as dotted lines
* Distances can be shown in mi or km
* Statsbox not shown in route map mode
* Purged unused strings from localizations
* Bugfix: Gap between world halves on some resolutions should be eliminated now
* Bugfix: Refresh forced when changing language on logging in

2009-07-13

* Bugfix: Airport add from Import now works (2820603)

2009-07-02

* Launched German (de), Lithuanian (lt), Polish (pl), Swedish (sv)
* New icons for layer switcher, minimap
* Fix tab index bug for search

2009-06-26

* Airport route maps added (courtesy of Airline Route Mapper)
* Quick search widget added
* Autocomplete functionality changed, with fast delete (reset) of previously autocompleted entries
* DB licenses changed to Open Database License

2009-06-23

* Duplicate IATA codes no longer allowed

2009-06-19

* Language selector available for profile, trip display
* Switch UI language to user preference on login
* Bugfix: Facebook "Sign up" link was broken
* Additional translation for Finnish (fi)

2009-06-16

* Top 10 Airports generation sped up 100x
* Bugfix: __FLIGHTS__ raw string popping up in English

2009-06-15

* Fixes for Basic editor in non-English languages
* Minor UI tweaks for localization
* Updated Japanese strings

2009-06-12

* Launched French (fr), Russian (ru)

2009-06-08

* Localization implemented
* Launched Finnish (fi), Japanese (ja)
* Started French (fr)
* Most HTML pages changed to PHP
* URL rewriting so ".php" tag not needed
* Database converted to UTF-8
* JS/PHP data input/output UTF-8 proofed (knock knock)

2009-05-18

* Bugfix: Flights now sorted by time as well as date
* Bugfix: Facebook app now handles case where user denies app access
* Cleaner logging for FB app

2009-05-14

* Bugfix: URL parsing for IE broken, now fixed

2009-05-13

* Banner images added, with caching system
* Automatic generation of HTML, phpBB banner code in Settings

2009-05-05

* Bugfix: Loop flights (same source and dest airport) now work in "Basic" mode
* Test cases for multi, loop flights added

2009-04-23

* Bugfix: Links from Facebook with "?ref=nf" added to end now work

2009-03-26

* Segments by train, road or sea added (2509953)
* Extra filter option "mode" added
* Added pie chart of travel modes to Analyze
* Unknown airlines and other carriers can now pop up Add New dialog
* KML now implements directory hierarchy and color-codes segments based on mode
* Replaced clunky JS pie chart code with Google Charts API
* Airline search test cases added
* Autocomplete airline test cases added
* Bugfix: Better handling of blanked airport, airline names
* Bugfix: Adding airlines with long names now updates select
* Bugfix: Duration of "0:60" now rendered correctly as "1:00"

2009-03-19

* Bugfix: Restore textbox class correctly after hint text restoration

2009-03-04

* Top 10 allows sorting by flight count or distance (2168185)
* Top 10 can also show top 20, 50 flights (2495106)
* Top 10 CSS rewritten (use padding instead of border-spacing), works better on IE
* Top 10 test cases added

2009-03-02

* Facebook: "Today" flights posted earlier, at 01:00 EST
* Facebook: Multiple "today" flights can be posted

2009-02-27

* Facebook app can now post update on flight day
* Preferences added to Facebook app
* Tooltips added to OpenLayers map controls
* Bugfix: Flight edits no longer show up on Facebook, stats

2009-02-23

* Bugfix: Calculate PHP GC distance correctly for flights where src==dest

2009-02-23

* KML exports (Google Earth etc) added!
* Wrote 3D path code in php/greatcircle.php
* Bugfix: Filters for CSV exports fixed

2009-02-22

* "Analyze" now includes count of countries, avg length, duration
* php/stats.php partly JSON-ified
* "Trip" filter prominence reduced
* Clearer "Help" icons
* "X" icon now OpenFlights Purple(tm)

2009-02-09

* Facebook app now includes a map of flights
* Bugfix: Facebook updates show airports in correct order

2009-02-06

* GAD replaced with OurAirports
* Over 1000 new airports imported from OurAirports
* Added DB index to IATA column for faster searching
* Require at least four digits of precision for new airports

2009-02-05

* Cleaner appearance for statsbox, AJAX icon when loading
* Login form only shown after loading complete
* Bugfix: "Analyze" works again on IE7
* Bugfix: Popups work again on IE7 (bug in Prototype?)
* Bugfix: Syntax error fixed, importing works again

2009-02-04

* Airport/airline databases released
* Airport/airline search now usable without logging in
* Bugfix: Duplicated airlines when importing

2009-02-01

* Departure time and arrival time now supported
* Timezones and daylight savings time (DST) added to airport database/search
* Distance, duration, date, departure time, arrival time kept synced to each other
* Distance, duration validated before saving
* FlightMemory import now supports arrival times
* CSV format imports and exports departure times
* CSV spec updated to 0.4 (optional departure time added)
* Bugfix: Can now export the flights of a single airport

2009-01-23

* Airline always shown (if possible) in "List flights" view
* Airline autocompleted from flight number only if it looks like IATA/ICAO code
* Bugfix: Popup toolbar manipulation no longer attempted unless logged in

2009-01-22

* Upgraded to OpenLayers 2.7
* Enabled mod_deflate in Apache
* Future flights shown with dotted lines and ghosted airports
* Future flights in italics in flight listings

2009-01-21

* Facebook application released
* Facebook link status visible in Settings
* Bugfix: Don't blank stats on automatic relogin after page reload

2009-01-19

* Pressing "ENTER" after password submits log in form.
* Stats cleared out ("Loading...") during login/logout process.

2009-01-15

* Username lowercased before password hashing.  "Legacy" passwords still recognized.

2009-01-12

* Challenge-handshake authentication now implemented (password no longer sent in clear)
* Move to top of settings/signup screen on any error
* Bugfix: Linefeed, carriage return, tab now filtered out from flight notes
* Bugfix: Do not accept empty as new password

2009-01-08

* "Keep historical airline names?" now preserves FlightMemory airline names as is
* scriptaculous loading optimized (6 HTTP requests less)
* blank.gif added for OpenLayers 
* Bugfix: Multiple matches for airline names now processed correctly

2009-01-07

* Bugfix: Blank class, reason no longer assigned defaults when edited
* Bugfix: Autocompletion of airline in Detailed editor fixed

2009-01-06

* OpenFlights Delta released!
* OpenFlights blog and "Elite" donation/level system launched
* New, large, user-friendly settings screen, with Elite Gold options implemented
* Password-protected private profiles implemented
* Adjustments to button layout for Basic editor
* Bugfix: Fixes to Top 10 stats formatting (2484923)
* Bugfix: Trip filter works again
* Bugfix: Advanced airline search for Basic editor fixed
* Bugfix: Callsigns now work in advanced airline search
* Bugfix: Help button no longer displayed when not available

            

Credits

OpenFlights is brought to you by Contentshare.

1 Pearl Bank #12-07
169016 Singapore

Open-source packages used to create this software include OpenLayers, Prototype, script.aculo.us, WiseGuysOnly Autocompletion, Sortable Table, Simple Calendar Widget, Movable Type Scripts (Great Circle), MD5 and PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser.

Special thanks to the OpenFlights beta testing team of FlyerTalk users FCYTravis, marc, sbm12 and trsqr.