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, […]
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Facebook application changed, your action required to keep posting flights
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 […]
