The World’s Best Query-Based Flight Tracking and Flight Status API

String YOUR_API_KEY = "API_KEY_HERE";
String apiUrl = "https://aeroapi.flightaware.com/aeroapi/";

String airport = "KSFO";

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
	.uri(URI.create(apiUrl + "airports/" + airport + "/flights"))
	.headers("x-apikey", YOUR_API_KEY)
	.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, BodyHandlers.ofString());

if (response.statusCode() == 200) {
	System.out.println("responseBody: " + response.body());
}

<?php
$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";
$fxmlUrl = "https://aeroapi.flightaware.com/aeroapi/";

$ident = 'SWA45';
$queryParams = array(
	'max_pages' => 2
);
$url = $fxmlUrl . 'flights/' . $ident . '?' . http_build_query($queryParams);

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('x-apikey: ' . $apiKey));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

if ($result = curl_exec($ch)) {
	curl_close($ch);
	echo $result;
}
?>

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text.Json;
using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace AeroApi4Sample
{
    public class FlightsResult
    {
        public List<Flight> Flights { get; set; }
    }

    public class Flight
    {
        public string Ident { get; set; }

        [JsonPropertyName("fa_flight_id")]
        public string FaFlightId { get; set; }

        [JsonPropertyName("scheduled_out")]
        public DateTime ScheduledOut { get; set; }
        
        [JsonPropertyName("actual_out")]
        public DateTime? ActualOut { get; set; }
    }

    public class Program
    {
        static void Main( string[] args )
        {
            Console.Write( "API Key: " );
            var strApiKey = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.Write( "Ident to look up (e.g., UAL47): " );
            var strIdentToLookUp = Console.ReadLine();

            var flights = GetFlights( strApiKey, strIdentToLookUp ).Result;
            
            if( flights == null )
            {
                return;
            }

            var nextFlightToDepart = flights.Where( 
                f => f.ActualOut == null 
                ).OrderBy( f => f.ScheduledOut ).First();

            Console.WriteLine( 
                string.Format( 
                    "Next departure of {0} is {1} at {2}", 
                    strIdentToLookUp,
                    nextFlightToDepart.FaFlightId, 
                    nextFlightToDepart.ScheduledOut 
                    ) 
                );
        }

        private static async Task<List<Flight>> GetFlights( string strApiKey, string strIdent )
        {
            using( var client = new HttpClient() )
            {
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(
                    new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue( "application/json" )
                    );
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add( 
                    "x-apikey", 
                    strApiKey 
                    );

                FlightsResult flightResult = null;
                var response = await client.GetAsync(
                    "https://aeroapi.flightaware.com/aeroapi/flights/" + strIdent
                    );
                var contentStream = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();

                if( response.IsSuccessStatusCode )
                {
                    flightResult = await JsonSerializer.DeserializeAsync<FlightsResult>(
                        contentStream, 
                        new JsonSerializerOptions 
                        {
                            PropertyNameCaseInsensitive = true
                        }
                        );
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.Error.WriteLine( "API call failed: " + response );
                    return null;
                }

                return flightResult.Flights;
            }
        }
    }
}