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Flight data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract route schedules, dynamic fare classes, Avios reward pricing, and seat availability from British Airways. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Flights extracted
1.2M /day
Price updates
4.7M /24h
Avios fares
340K /run
Active pipelines
114
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from britishairways.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 britishairways.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberorigin_iatadestination_iatadeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutesaircraft_typeoperating_airlinestopsdays_of_operation
flight_schedules
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "BA117",
"origin_iata": "LHR",
"destination_iata": "JFK",
"departure_time": "2026-10-14T08:25:00Z",
"arrival_time": "2026-10-14T11:20:00Z",
"duration_minutes": 475,
"aircraft_type": "Boeing 777",
"operating_airline": "British Airways"
# flight_numberorigin_iatadestination_iatadeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutes
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Fares objects from britishairways.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numbercabin_classfare_typepricecurrencytaxes_feesavios_requiredavios_cash_componenttier_pointsscrape_timestamp
pricing_& fares
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "BA117",
"cabin_class": "Club World",
"fare_type": "Business Flex",
"price": 3450.0,
"currency": "GBP",
"taxes_fees": 215.5,
"tier_points": 140,
"scrape_timestamp": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z"
# flight_numbercabin_classfare_typepricecurrencytaxes_fees
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Complete list of extractable fields for Seat Availability objects from britishairways.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdeparture_datecabin_classseats_remainingwaitlist_statusseat_map_urlpitch_incheswidth_incheslayout
seat_availability
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "BA117",
"departure_date": "2026-10-14",
"cabin_class": "First",
"seats_remaining": 2,
"waitlist_status": false,
"pitch_inches": 78,
"width_inches": 22,
"layout": "1-2-1"
# flight_numberdeparture_datecabin_classseats_remainingwaitlist_statusseat_map_url
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Complete list of extractable fields for Route Information objects from britishairways.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

origin_airportdest_airportdistance_milesterminal_outterminal_inlounge_accessfast_trackconnection_time_minsminimum_connect_time
route_information
● 200 OK
"origin_airport": "London Heathrow",
"dest_airport": "New York JFK",
"distance_miles": 3451,
"terminal_out": "Terminal 5",
"terminal_in": "Terminal 8",
"lounge_access": "Galleries Club Lounge",
"fast_track": true
# origin_airportdest_airportdistance_milesterminal_outterminal_inlounge_access
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Complete list of extractable fields for Ancillaries objects from britishairways.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberchecked_bag_feeextra_bag_feeseat_selection_feewifi_availablemeal_includedupgrade_costcancellation_feechange_fee
ancillaries
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "BA117",
"checked_bag_fee": 0.0,
"extra_bag_fee": 65.0,
"seat_selection_fee": 85.0,
"wifi_available": true,
"meal_included": true,
"change_fee": 0.0
# flight_numberchecked_bag_feeextra_bag_feeseat_selection_feewifi_availablemeal_included
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Capabilities

Everything you need from British Airways

Our British Airways scraper handles every layer of the booking platform: flight schedules, dynamic fare classes, Avios reward pricing, and seat availability with full session management.

Flight Schedule Extraction

Extract routes, departure times, arrival times, aircraft types, and flight numbers across the global network.

Dynamic Fare Tracking

Capture live pricing for Economy, Premium Economy, Club World, and First class fares in multiple currencies.

Avios & Reward Seat Mining

Track Reward Flight Saver availability, required Avios points, and cash component options per route.

Tier Point Calculation

Extract Executive Club Tier Point yields for every route and fare class combination.

Codeshare & Oneworld Mapping

Identify operating carriers versus marketing carriers for American Airlines, Iberia, and other partners.

Seat Availability

Monitor remaining seats per cabin class to gauge load factors and demand curves.

Multi-Currency Support

Extract fares in GBP, USD, EUR, and other local currencies based on point of sale.

Baggage & Ancillary Fees

Track costs for extra baggage, seat selection, and cabin upgrades.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at hourly or daily cadences.

// engagement pipeline

From route list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide origin-destination pairs, date ranges, or cabin classes. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and anti-bot handling for britishairways.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and route coverage 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 pipeline handles the hard parts

Airlines invest heavily in scraping detection. Here is how we stay resilient and why teams choose managed infrastructure over DIY.

pipeline-monitor · britishairways.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
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + fingerprint spoofing

British Airways uses advanced bot mitigation. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management.

Session management
Multi-step search flows

Flight data requires navigating complex, multi-step search forms. We maintain stateful browser sessions to traverse from origin selection through to the final fare matrix.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution

The booking engine is heavily JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright browser sessions with dynamic widget hydration, capturing data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For large route networks, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per field. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, price outliers, and coverage drops. SLA uptime is contractual.

Applications

Who uses flight data

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

01
OTA Price Parity

Online travel agencies monitor direct-channel pricing to ensure parity and optimise their own margin strategies.

02
Reward Flight Alerts

Loyalty platforms track Avios seat availability to alert members when high-value reward flights open up.

03
Competitor Intelligence

Rival airlines track fare changes, cabin load factors, and promotional pricing across competing transatlantic and short-haul routes.

04
Route Profitability Analysis

Aviation analysts track yield per seat and frequency changes to model route profitability and network planning.

05
Corporate Travel Optimisation

Travel management companies track historical fare curves to advise corporate clients on optimal booking windows.

06
Dynamic Pricing Models

Pricing teams use historical fare data and seat availability metrics to train their own revenue management algorithms.

Why DataFlirt

"Airline pricing is the original dynamic market. Capturing British Airways fare curves requires navigating complex booking flows, session state, and aggressive anti-bot layers."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable airline scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering, handling multi-step search forms, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

British Airways scraper - technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for the dynamic booking engine
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated solver integration for Akamai challenges
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs rotated per session to maintain state
Supported
Multi-currency
Fares extracted in local currency based on point of sale
Supported
Avios reward availability
Extraction of reward seats and points + cash combinations
Supported
Round-trip combinations
Mapping of outbound and inbound fare dependencies
Supported
Executive Club member profiles
Personalised tier status, Avios balances, and member data
Partial
Passenger booking management (PNR)
Access to existing passenger name records and flight changes
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the 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 and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows required by the booking engine.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across UK and global regions. Rotation happens per-session to keep the multi-step booking flow intact.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

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

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested array formats
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel format for business analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time alerts
API
REST endpoints to query extracted data
PostgreSQL
Direct database insertion
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping British Airways legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing and schedule data is generally permissible. DataFlirt extracts only public, non-authenticated flight information. We do not extract personal data or bypass authentication walls for passenger records. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel.

How do you handle bot protection?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour to navigate the booking engine without triggering blocks.

Can you extract Avios reward seats?

Yes. We track Reward Flight Saver availability, required Avios points, and the various cash component options for every route and cabin class.

How fresh is the pricing data?

Pipelines can be configured for daily refreshes across a wide route network, or hourly checks for a targeted set of high-priority origin-destination pairs.

Do you scrape Oneworld partner flights?

Yes. If a flight is bookable via britishairways.com, including codeshares with American Airlines, Iberia, or Qatar Airways, we extract the operating carrier and fare details.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our packages start at a defined list of origin-destination pairs with daily delivery. For global network coverage, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=britishairways.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 one-off route schedule dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across the network, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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