Opensky
Flight Data
About This Data Source
During the initial novel Coronavirus lockdowns that cities imposed, flight activity decreased by 96%. Several years later, it is still in the process of recovering. Will the travel industry recover from the pandemic? And if so, when? Can flight patterns today be used to predict travel behavior for next year? If you work in Tourism or an adjacent industry, and you aren't already paying attention to patterns in flight activity, you might be interested in this dataset! OpenSky provides flight data by aircraft along with arrivals and departures by airport. Use Ensign with this data source to generate a time-series dataset that you could add as a feature for machine learning models, financial planning, and strategy.
Producer
Data
Flight data, arrivals, departures, aircraft trajectory
Account Required
No
License
Free
API Key
No
API Type
REST
SDKS
Python API, Java API
Limits
400 API credits per day and 4,000 API credits per day for OpenSky users
Click here for the code to get data such as:
Received flight vector: {'icao24': 'a11d08', 'callsign': 'N171BL ', 'origin_country': 'United States', 'time_position': 1687890269, 'last_contact': 1687890269, 'longitude': -77.8813, 'latitude': 35.8695, 'geo_altitude': 68.58, 'on_ground': False, 'velocity': 44.38, 'true_track': 214.61, 'vertical_rate': -3.9, 'sensors': None, 'barometric_altitude': 160.02, 'transponder_code': None, 'special_purpose_indicator': False, 'position_source': 0, 'category': 0}
Received flight vector: {'icao24': '4b1902', 'callsign': 'SWR86 ', 'origin_country': 'Switzerland', 'time_position': 1687890269, 'last_contact': 1687890269, 'longitude': -62.009, 'latitude': 48.1098, 'geo_altitude': 11468.1, 'on_ground': False, 'velocity': 224.51, 'true_track': 251.98, 'vertical_rate': 0.0, 'sensors': None, 'barometric_altitude': 10972.8, 'transponder_code': None, 'special_purpose_indicator': False, 'position_source': 0, 'category': 1}
Received flight vector: {'icao24': 'e94c88', 'callsign': 'BOV709 ', 'origin_country': 'Bolivia', 'time_position': 1687890270, 'last_contact': 1687890270, 'longitude': -58.5902, 'latitude': -34.7019, 'geo_altitude': 5905.5, 'on_ground': False, 'velocity': 175.39, 'true_track': 337.95, 'vertical_rate': 12.03, 'sensors': None, 'barometric_altitude': 5775.96, 'transponder_code': '0330', 'special_purpose_indicator': False, 'position_source': 0, 'category': 0}
Data Products Showcase
| Creator | Description | Event Data | URL | GitHub | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Bengfort | Sentiment Analysis on US Flight Reviews | Reviews and Sentiment | Coming Soon! | https://github.com/bbengfort/sentiment-reviews | 2023-09-12 |