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American Airlines data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract flight schedules, dynamic pricing signals, fare class availability, and route intelligence from aa.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Flights extracted
842K /day
Fare updates
3.1M /24h
Route records
14K /run
Active pipelines
89
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from aa.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Flight Schedules objects from aa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberorigindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutesaircraft_typeoperating_carrieroneworld_partnerstop_count
flight_schedules
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "AA 105",
"origin": "JFK",
"destination": "LHR",
"departure_time": "2023-10-25T19:30:00Z",
"arrival_time": "2023-10-26T07:30:00Z",
"duration_minutes": 420,
"aircraft_type": "Boeing 777-200"
# flight_numberorigindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutes
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Fares objects from aa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdeparture_datebasic_economy_pricemain_cabin_pricepremium_economy_pricebusiness_pricefirst_pricecurrencytax_includedrefundable
pricing_& fares
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "AA 105",
"departure_date": "2023-10-25",
"basic_economy_price": 450.0,
"main_cabin_price": 520.0,
"premium_economy_price": 850.0,
"currency": "USD",
"tax_included": true
# flight_numberdeparture_datebasic_economy_pricemain_cabin_pricepremium_economy_pricebusiness_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Seat Availability objects from aa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdeparture_datecabin_classseats_remainingseat_map_urlpitch_incheswidth_inchespower_outletswi_fi_availableentertainment_type
seat_availability
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "AA 105",
"departure_date": "2023-10-25",
"cabin_class": "Main Cabin",
"seats_remaining": 4,
"pitch_inches": 31,
"wi_fi_available": true,
"power_outlets": true
# flight_numberdeparture_datecabin_classseats_remainingseat_map_urlpitch_inches
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Complete list of extractable fields for Route Intelligence objects from aa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

origindestinationdirect_flights_countconnecting_flights_countmin_pricemax_priceavg_duration_minutesoperating_carrierslayover_airportsscraped_at
route_intelligence
● 200 OK
"origin": "JFK",
"destination": "LHR",
"direct_flights_count": 4,
"min_price": 450.0,
"avg_duration_minutes": 435,
"operating_carriers": "['American Airlines', 'British Airways']",
"scraped_at": "2023-10-15T08:12:00Z"
# origindestinationdirect_flights_countconnecting_flights_countmin_pricemax_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Baggage & Extras objects from aa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberfare_classcarry_on_allowancechecked_bag_allowancefirst_bag_feesecond_bag_feepriority_boarding_feeseat_selection_feelounge_access_feecurrency
baggage_& extras
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "AA 105",
"fare_class": "Basic Economy",
"carry_on_allowance": 1,
"checked_bag_allowance": 0,
"first_bag_fee": 75.0,
"currency": "USD",
"priority_boarding_fee": 45.0
# flight_numberfare_classcarry_on_allowancechecked_bag_allowancefirst_bag_feesecond_bag_fee
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Capabilities

Complete American Airlines flight data extraction

Our aa.com scraper handles complex search flows: multi-city itineraries, dynamic fare calendars, partner airline mapping, and anti-bot circumvention.

Flight Schedule Extraction

Extract departure, arrival, duration, aircraft type, and operating carrier for all AA and Oneworld partner flights.

Dynamic Fare Tracking

Capture real-time pricing across Basic Economy, Main Cabin, Premium Economy, Business, and Flagship First.

Seat Availability Monitoring

Track remaining seat counts per cabin class to infer load factors and booking velocity.

Route & Network Mapping

Map direct routes, connection hubs, and layover durations across the entire American Airlines network.

Fare Calendar Scraping

Extract 30-day and 330-day fare calendars to identify pricing trends and seasonal fluctuations.

Ancillary Revenue Data

Capture baggage fees, seat selection costs, and priority boarding upgrades associated with specific fare classes.

Oneworld Partner Data

Identify codeshare flights operated by British Airways, Iberia, Japan Airlines, and other partners.

High-Frequency Polling

Monitor specific routes with sub-hourly polling to capture intraday price volatility.

Bot Mitigation Bypass

Navigate Akamai and advanced bot protection using residential proxies and TLS fingerprinting.

// engagement pipeline

From route list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide origin-destination pairs, dates, or flight numbers. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for aa.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample routes before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our aa.com pipeline handles the hard parts

Airlines employ aggressive anti-scraping measures. Here is how we maintain data flow without interruption.

pipeline-monitor · aa.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Akamai Bypass
Residential proxy rotation + TLS spoofing

American Airlines uses Akamai bot management. We deploy US-based residential proxies and carefully mimic human TLS fingerprints to prevent IP bans and CAPTCHA walls.

Complex Search Flows
Playwright automation for dynamic forms

Flight searches require interacting with complex JavaScript calendars and autocomplete dropdowns. We use Playwright to execute these flows reliably.

Session Management
Cookie persistence for multi-step searches

Extracting detailed fare rules and seat maps often requires maintaining session state across multiple page loads. Our pipeline handles cookie jars automatically.

Data Normalisation
Standardising airline terminology

We map AA-specific fare codes and cabin classes into a normalised schema, making the data immediately usable for downstream analysis.

Anomaly Detection
Price outlier and zero-result alerting

If a route suddenly returns zero flights or extreme fare drops, our monitoring stack flags it for manual review to distinguish between real airline errors and scraper failures.

Applications

Who uses American Airlines data — and how

Teams across industries use aa.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Competitive Fare Intelligence

OTAs and competing airlines monitor AA pricing strategies to adjust their own fares and maintain market parity.

02
Corporate Travel Optimisation

Travel management companies track fare fluctuations to advise clients on optimal booking windows.

03
Revenue Management Modeling

Analysts use historical pricing and seat availability data to train predictive models for airline revenue management.

04
Route Network Planning

Aviation consultants analyze schedule changes and aircraft deployment to understand AA's network strategy.

05
Investment Due Diligence

Hedge funds track flight volume and pricing trends as alternative data signals for airline stock performance.

06
Dynamic Packaging

Travel aggregators combine scraped flight data with hotel pricing to create real-time dynamic vacation packages.

Why DataFlirt

"American Airlines operates over 6,700 flights daily. Capturing that pricing volatility requires infrastructure, not just a script."

Airline pricing is notoriously dynamic, with fares changing multiple times per day based on load factors and algorithmic revenue management. Extracting this data reliably from aa.com means navigating complex search forms, aggressive bot protection, and high-frequency polling requirements. DataFlirt manages this entire stack.

Technical Spec

aa.com scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our aa.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions for search forms and dynamic calendars
Supported
Akamai bypass
Automated TLS fingerprinting and residential proxy rotation
Supported
Multi-city search
Support for complex multi-leg itinerary extraction
Supported
Fare calendar extraction
Scraping 30-day grid views for lowest fare identification
Supported
Oneworld partner data
Capture codeshare flights operated by BA, Iberia, etc.
Supported
Seat map parsing
Extraction of available vs occupied seats from cabin maps
Supported
High-frequency polling
Sub-hourly execution for volatile routes
Supported
AAdvantage account data
Gated data (member balances, personalized offers) requires login
Partial
Corporate negotiated rates
Gated data requiring corporate credentials and portal access
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the aa.com pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across US regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Excel format for business analyst workflows
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoint for querying scraped datasets
PostgreSQL
Direct database insertion with upsert logic
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About aa.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping aa.com legal?

Scraping publicly available flight schedules and pricing from aa.com is generally permissible under US law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle aa.com's bot protection?

We use US-based residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic TLS fingerprints, and human-like interaction patterns to navigate Akamai bot management.

Can you extract data for Oneworld partner flights?

Yes. Any codeshare flight displayed on aa.com (e.g., British Airways, Japan Airlines, Iberia) is captured, including operating carrier details.

How frequently can you update pricing?

We support high-frequency polling for specific routes, achieving sub-hourly updates to capture intraday fare volatility.

Do you capture all fare classes?

Yes. We extract pricing for Basic Economy, Main Cabin, Premium Economy, Business, and Flagship First, where available.

Can you scrape the 30-day fare calendar?

Yes. We can extract the flexible dates calendar view to identify the lowest fares across a month-long window.

Do you track seat availability?

We can parse seat maps to count available versus occupied seats per cabin class, providing signals on flight load factors.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=aa.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a daily schedule dump or continuous price-monitoring across thousands of routes — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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