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For anybody looking for an alternative, there is Fareportal, which has a full featured API for flights with both search and booking ability. https://www.fareportallabs.com/Home/DownloadDocs#0

I'm happy to answer questions as I'm helping several companies switch over to Fareportal at the moment.

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Do u have Gate information for live flights?

I am looking for Gate information & Flight schedules by airport.

Ex: I want to be able to query incoming/outgoing flights to Gate-A-10 in ATL today.

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Query to:

find where [Flight DL123] is going next.

[ATL-LAX] -> Landing in 'Gate 10' in LAX

going next to....

[LAX-MIA] -> Landing in 'Gate A1' in MIA

going next to....

[MIA-JFK] -> Landing in 'Gate 1', Terminal 3 in JFK

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Gate 10 in Atlanta:

[AA38] SEA-ATL arriving at 6:37A

[AA38] ATL-LAX leaving at 7:45A

(2 hours no flights at Gate 10)

[AA99] JFK-ATL arriving at 9:45A

[AA99] ATL-JFK leaving at 10:45A

Fareportal handles bookings in advance, not really live flight data.

Looks good. I researched flight data suppliers & GDS companies recently for a side project and found them either very expensive (QPX falls in this category - having to pay several cents per query makes it virtually impossible to do anything creative) or lacking coverage for LCCs in Europe, which is my target market.

So naturally I'm quite impressed with Fareportal and will give it a try. I did do a quick search on CheapOair and didn't see Ryanair among the results (although they do have a flight for that route and date). I know they're icky about third parties advertising/[re]selling their flights but there's some suppliers that do carry their flight data (ie Travelfusion, which politely told me to come back once I have a working product, chicken and egg much?).

I'm not keen to book flights on behalf of users at this point since I have a (not thoroughly documented) fear that regulatory matters will make it difficult/expensive to operate an indie OTA but that's TBD.

If you are looking for API access for LCCs, check out http://www.azair.eu/ They are the best, they have availability + pricing + schedule +... data from every LCC that is out there in Europe. I use their regular website myself for all travels within Europe when flying LCCs since they show you split ticketing options as well as do a real search when you enter lets say, from France to XXX (for all airports). Skyscanner does promote the "take me anywhere feature" but it doesnt show you any real availability data, only displays flights other people have searched for.

I also got an email the other day from http://mystifly.com which also promotes LCC but I haven't tested them yet.

It's very painful to redistribute Ryanair, especially if they don't want you to. They even have captchas on their search pages to block scrapers.

Hey there, need flight info for delayed flights in EU ?

My 3 usd subscription to flight stats[1] give me just 3 days history and no room for more fine tunning

[1](https://i.imgur.com/nOjjPjE.png)

Fareportal is not for live flight data, only bookings in advance.

What is Fareportal's pricing? I can't find it.

Price for API calls? Those are free for affiliate partnerships.

The flights pricing itself matches what you would find, for example, on CheapOair.com or OneTravel.com, which are driven by Fareportal's APIs.

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