Posts from ‘January, 2009’

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 […]

This has been one of the top feature requests since day 1, and we’re delighted to announce that OpenFlights now has a Facebook application!
Install the app and give it your OpenFlights username, and something very similar to what you see on the right will appear, showing the number, total distance and total duration of your […]

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 […]

After some six months of development and testing, we’re delighted to today announce the official launch of OpenFlights, the site that lets you map your flights around the world, search, filter and categorize them in all sorts of interesting ways, calculate statistics automatically, and share the resulting maps with friends and the world — if […]