Flights Near (Flight Positions)
Flights Near provides access to information on active flights in a geographic area, including all available carrier, flight number, call sign, tail number, position (lat/long), altitude, bearing, and speed data. If additional status information is available (airport, times, terminals, etc.), a FlightID is provided to access the status information using Flight Status By Flight.
- URI
https://api.flightstats.com/flex/flightstatus/{protocol}/v2/{format}/flightsNear/{...}- Extended Options
- useHTTPErrors useInlinedReferences includeNewFields languageCode:xx
- Response
- request, appendix, error, list of flightPosition
- Long Term Support (?)
- SOAP (deprecated):
WSDL |
XSD
REST: WADL | XSD - Extended Fields (?)
- SOAP (deprecated):
WSDL+XSD
REST: WADL | XSD | JSON
Interactive Documentation
- Click on the name of the web service to expand the test client interface.
- Fill out each required parameter (click app id & key to pre-populate with your credentials)
- 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.
- Please be aware that large responses may take a long time to pretty-print in your browser.
