Today’s feature is a new trick by an old pony — now, you can finally open up (or link directly to) airline and airport route maps, instead of needing to go to the main page, type in your search, select the correct choice and load up the map you actually wanted. Observe:
Finnair: http://openflights.org/airline/AY
Alice Springs: […]
Posts under ‘Howto’
Quick and easy URLs for airport and airline route maps
Buggy airport data? Now you can fix it yourself!
Until today, pretty much the only way you could fix a bug in OpenFlights airport data was to submit a bug report, never quite as fast or painless a process as you might hope. But now, there’s a better way: click on or search for the airport , click the edit icon , tweak the […]
Animate your flights with FlightGlobe
There’s a long-standing feature request to create an animated “slide show” of your OpenFlights, and I was delighted to find out recently that it’s been done in the best way possible — by somebody else!
FlightGlobe is a nifty desktop application for Mac and Windows that takes an OpenFlights CSV export (”List flights”, then click on […]
Facebook change: Profile box out, application tab in
Facebook, in their grandmotherly kindness, has once again decided to break the OpenFlights Facebook application. Today’s change is that the “profile box” we’ve come to know and love is going away on August 23, 2010:
And it will be replaced by the profile “application tab”, visible only if you browse to the user’s profile and click […]
Facebook application changed, your action required to keep posting flights
Recent changes inside Facebook have broken the existing OpenFlights Facebook application’s ability to post recently added and/or today’s flights to your Facebook Wall. To fix your copy, please go to this URL:
http://apps.facebook.com/openflights/
Right below “Step 1″, click on the link entitled “Grant permission to publish posts”, click on “Allow publishing” in the dialog that pops up, […]
Airline route maps launched, metric distances available
Our recently released airport route maps have been a huge hit, so we’ve now followed through on our promise and released airline route maps as well: just enter your favorite airline’s name or IATA code in the Quick Search to get their route map. As an example, here’s Slovene national airline Adria Airways (JP):
But […]
Route mapping the world
So far OpenFlights has been all about mapping your own travels and seeing where others have been to, but today, we’ve taken a big step in making it your tool of choice for travel planning as well. Now, you can click on any airport and see every single scheduled flight:
For easy access to this, […]
Think global, act localized
After tonight’s upgrade, OpenFlights can now support languages other than English, and we’re starting off with two: Finnish (suomi) and Japanese (日本語). French, German and Russian are also coming soon, and we’re looking for people to help us translate other languages (more on that below).
To try out a different language, simply select it from the […]
Banners, blog badges and forum signatures
Some of our users have been asking for a way to add OpenFlights stats to their websites, blogs or forum signatures. Wait no longer, banners are now here! Here’s mine:
Banner contents update automatically every hour. They can be used with HTML markup (used by web and blog pages):
<a href=’http://openflights.org/user/yourname‘ target=’_blank’><img src=’http://openflights.org/banner/yourname.png’ width=400 height=70></a>
With PHPbb markup […]
Interesting uses of OpenFlights
OpenFlights was originally created as a personal flight mapper, so you can record your own flights and share them with the world. However, our inventive users have come up with some entirely different things to do with the site, and I’d like to share a few of them today.
Planning get-togethers
Over at FlyerTalk, the frequent-flyer website […]
