Airport codes and their corresponding data.
Transform the data provided by OpenFlights into a JSON format so that it can be looked up by IATA airport code.
Fileds in the order of appearance, in the original data source
- Airport ID Unique OpenFlights identifier for this airport.
- Name Name of airport. May or may not contain the City name.
- City Main city served by airport. May be spelled differently from Name.
- Country Country or territory where airport is located.
- IATA/FAA 3-letter FAA code, for airports located in Country "United States of America". 3-letter IATA code, for all other airports. Blank if not assigned.
- ICAO 4-letter ICAO code. Blank if not assigned.
- Latitude Decimal degrees, usually to six significant digits. Negative is South, positive is North.
- Longitude Decimal degrees, usually to six significant digits. Negative is West, positive is East.
- Altitude In feet.
- Timezone Hours offset from UTC. Fractional hours are expressed as decimals, eg. India is 5.5.
- DST Daylight savings time. One of E (Europe), A (US/Canada), S (South America), O (Australia), Z (New Zealand), N (None) or U (Unknown)
Sample entries from the database
507,"Heathrow","London","United Kingdom","LHR","EGLL",51.4775,-0.461389,83,0,"E" 26,"Kugaaruk","Pelly Bay","Canada","YBB","CYBB",68.534444,-89.808056,56,-6,"A" 3127,"Pokhara","Pokhara","Nepal","PKR","VNPK",28.200881,83.982056,2712,5.75,"N"
A JSON object with airport data represented as objects with IATA codes as the key. For example "LHR": {"name": "Heathrow", "city": "London", ...}
Sample entry
{
"altitude": "83",
"city": "London",
"country": "United Kingdom",
"dst": "E",
"iata": "LHR",
"icao": "EGLL",
"latitude": "51.4775",
"longitude": "-0.461389",
"name": "Heathrow",
"timezone": "0"
}Big thanks to OpenFlights for collecting and making this data available. Check out their website for additional data about airlines, routes etc.