Airports API

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The Airports API provides basic reference data about one or more airports.

URI
https://api.flightstats.com/flex/airports/rest/v1/{format}/{...}
Response
airport
Long Term Support (?)
SOAP (deprecated): WSDL | XSD
REST: WADL | XSD
Extended Fields (?)
SOAP (deprecated): WSDL+XSD
REST: JSON | WADL | XSD

Interactive Documentation

  1. Click on the name of the web service to expand the test client interface.
  2. Fill out each required parameter (click app id & key to pre-populate with your credentials)
  3. Send Request to see the actual JSON response. You will also be provided with a curl invocation including a pre-formatted REST URL. To see the XML response, replace the json in the URL with xml.
  4. Please be aware that large responses may take a long time to pretty-print in your browser.

Airports API Extended Options

These can be used in conjunction with other Extended Options to customize API behavior to fit specific needs.
Option Description
excludeRailwayStations Removes all stations that are considered to be railway stations from the response.