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Calloo, callay, what a frabjous day!  On December 11, 2011, the number of flights entered into OpenFlights crossed the one million mark.  It’s quite a milestone, and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for making it possible.  It took just over a year to double the flight count from 500,000, so […]

Half a million user-entered flights!  That’s a pretty respectable number, and the way things are going, we’ll be looking at the Big One-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh sometime early next year.  What’s changed since 250,000?
Top 10 Airlines

Airline
250k rank
World rank

1
Delta/Northwest
5 (+4)
1

2
Lufthansa
1 (-1)
5

3
United Airlines
2 (-1)
4

4
American Airlines
3 (-1)
3

5
Air France-KLM
7 (+2)
6

6
Continental Air Lines
4 (-2)
9

7
British Airways
6 (-1)
?

8
Ryanair
10 (+2)
8

9
US Airways
9
10

10
Scandinavian
11 (+1)
?

The big news is that […]

The route map we created with our airline route data a while back has been a bit of a sleeper hit: it’s now used on 16 language versions of Wikipedia, drawn excited reactions from blogs and — my personal favorite — claimed by a logistics company as their cargo network!  But it’s a boring old […]

Some time yesterday, OpenFlights passed the quarter million mark of user-entered flights.  Let’s see how the current statistics compare to what we had at 100,000…
Top 10 Airlines

 
Airline
100k rank
World rank

1
Lufthansa
2 (+1)
6

2
United Airlines
1 (-1)
2

3
American Airlines
4 (+1)
1

4
Continental Airlines
3 (-1)
5

5
Delta Air Lines
5
3

6
British Airways
6
8

7
Air France
10 (+3)
4

8
Northwest Airlines
7 (-1)
9

9
US Airways
8 (-1)
?

10
Ryanair
new
?

United and Lufthansa once again duking it out for the top […]

One hundred thousand!  (100,588 as I type this, to be quite precise.)  That’s how many flights have now been entered into OpenFlights.  Let’s see how the current statistics compare to what we had at 50,000 just a few short months back, shall we?
Top 10 Airlines

Airline
50k rank
World rank

1
United Airlines
1
2

2
Lufthansa
2
6

3
Continental Airlines
4 (+1)
4

4
American Airlines
3 (-1)
1

5
Delta Air Lines
5
2

6
British Airways
7 […]

A few days ago, OpenFlights reached 50,000 flights, so it’s a good time to take a look at how that mass of data is shaping up.
Top 10 Airlines

 
Airline
World rank

1
United Airlines
2

2
Lufthansa
6

3
American Airlines
1

4
Continental Airlines
4

5
Delta Air Lines
3

6
US Airways
?

7
British Airways
9

8
Northwest Airlines
7

9
JetBlue Airways
?

10
Qantas
?

The top 4 airlines by passenger-km according to IATA all make it to the OpenFlights top 5 as […]