OpenFlights.org

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...

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)...

OpenFlights is getting a major workover to support full localization, so the site will be down for about an hour starting Monday June 8, 0:00 UTC for database migration and web server reconfiguration. Want to help us translate the site into other languages...

Disclaimer: The following is intolerably technical and doesn’t really have anything at all to do with flying. Non-geeks, please head straight for the emergency exit...

One hundred thousand! (100,588 as I type this, to be quite precise.) That’s how many flights have now been entered into OpenFlights. Let’s see how the current statistics compare to what we had at 50,000 just a few short months back, shall we...

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...

I’ll be giving a short talk entitled Open Travel Culture: Wikitravel and OpenFlights at BarCampKL, held at Inti College Subang Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur on Saturday-Sunday, Apr 4-5th, 2009...

To date, OpenFlights has been all about flying — too bad if you occasionally used other modes of transport as well. But today, a major new feature has been rolled out: instead of just flights, you can enter train, road or ship journeys as well...

One of our first feature requests was simply entitled “more stats“, but it’s taken a while to work through the wish list. Today that request (which kept on growing larger and more complex!) was finally marked as completed, and here’s what you get...

A few new features for our Facebook app have been rolled out since the original announcement, so I thought I’d take a moment to share them with you...

I’ll be giving a short talk entitled Open Travel Culture: Wikitravel and OpenFlights at BarCampSingapore3, held at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore on Saturday, Feb 28th, 2009. My slot is tentatively scheduled for 4:30 to 5 PM in Room 3, but this being an unconference that’s subject to change...

Today I’m delighted to announce OpenFlights’ coolest feature yet: KML exports...

One of the largest hurdles to getting OpenFlights off the ground was getting good airport and airline data...

…and now OpenFlights keeps track of it too, since with today’s release our very first feature request was completed: flight arrival and departure times are now supported...

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  ...

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...

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...

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...

Welcome to the OpenFlights blog. Once we launch officially (very soon now!), this will become the main channel for updates on what’s happening in OpenFlightsLand, although we’ll keep on piping in updates to our Facebook page and our Identica acco

CSV (comma separated value) importing and exporting to/from OpenFlights is now implemented. This makes it easy to take backups, manipulate data offline using tools like Excel, and import data from basically anywhere...