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Creator of the site here: wow, did not expect to see this on Hacker News, especially since it's been years since I made any significant changes. But if you have any questions, ask away!

Server's buckling under the load, so if you just want the data, you can get it straight off SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/p/openflights/code/HEAD/tree/openfli... (yes, I'm planning to finally migrate to GitHub, thank you for asking)

The blog has a lot of background about what this is and how it came to be: http://openflights.org/blog/

And if you'd like to see airline schedule data, especially to the point of being willing to pay money for it, I'd be much obliged if you could fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KadfmOED90LHtUEOxA2oYW9nrN9...

Hello Jani,

if you are interested not only in schedule, but also availability and pricing data for 55+ European and Middle-Eastern low-cost airlines, let me know.

At http://www.azair.com, we use it to allow our users (for free) to: a) combine different carriers (up to 3 changes en route) search by region (from: Scandinavia, to: Mediterranean, or: Anywhere) b) query long time spans (August-March) c) use very specific queries (only week-ends, depart after 9am, etc.) d) search 55+ carriers (European and Middle-eastern) e) get replies really fast

We also have a B2B XML/JSON API for both flight search and real-time availability+pricing, alas that is not for free.

Also, we tweet daily tips for return flights under €50 at http://www.twitter.com/AZairBot

Let me know what you think

Tom

"The data is ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) encoded, with no special characters."

This should not happen in 2014.

Wouldn't 'no special characters' mean that the data is really simple ASCII?

Another source for aviation data: http://ourairports.com/data/

This is one of the sources for the airport data on OpenFlights, although OF's data set is (intentionally) heavily filtered to formally recognized airports with IATA/ICAO codes. OurAirports is very inclusive and has all sorts of helipads, bush landing strips etc that are of use to pilots, but not so much for our audience of commercial flight passengers and crew.

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