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RUN · 37 active pipelines · ceair.com live

China Eastern flight data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract real-time schedules, fare class pricing, seat maps, and route intelligence from ceair.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Flights tracked
18,492 /day
Fare updates
1.2M /24h
Routes monitored
4,193 /run
Active pipelines
37
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

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

flight_numberorigin_iatadestination_iatadeparture_time_localarrival_time_localduration_minutesaircraft_typestopsoperated_bycodeshare_info
flight_schedules
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "MU583",
"origin_iata": "PVG",
"destination_iata": "LAX",
"departure_time_local": "2026-08-14T20:05:00",
"arrival_time_local": "2026-08-14T17:00:00",
"duration_minutes": 715,
"aircraft_type": "Boeing 777-300ER",
"stops": 0,
"operated_by": "China Eastern Airlines"
# flight_numberorigin_iatadestination_iatadeparture_time_localarrival_time_localduration_minutes
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Fares objects from ceair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdeparture_datecurrencybase_faretaxes_feestotal_pricefare_class_codecabin_classrefundablechange_fee_applicable
pricing_& fares
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "MU583",
"departure_date": "2026-08-14",
"currency": "CNY",
"base_fare": 8450.0,
"taxes_fees": 1240.0,
"total_price": 9690.0,
"fare_class_code": "Y",
"cabin_class": "Economy",
"refundable": false
# flight_numberdeparture_datecurrencybase_faretaxes_feestotal_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Seat Availability objects from ceair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdeparture_datecabin_classavailable_seatsseat_map_urlpitch_incheswidth_inchespower_outletswifi_equipped
seat_availability
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "MU583",
"departure_date": "2026-08-14",
"cabin_class": "Business",
"available_seats": 4,
"pitch_inches": 75,
"width_inches": 23.6,
"power_outlets": true,
"wifi_equipped": true
# flight_numberdeparture_datecabin_classavailable_seatsseat_map_urlpitch_inches
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Complete list of extractable fields for Route Network objects from ceair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

origin_codedestination_codefrequency_weeklydirect_flightseasonaldistance_kmflight_numbers_listalliance_partners
route_network
● 200 OK
"origin_code": "PVG",
"destination_code": "LHR",
"frequency_weekly": 7,
"direct_flight": true,
"seasonal": false,
"distance_km": 9235,
"flight_numbers_list": "['MU551', 'MU552']",
"alliance_partners": "['SkyTeam']"
# origin_codedestination_codefrequency_weeklydirect_flightseasonaldistance_km
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Complete list of extractable fields for Flight Status objects from ceair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdatescheduled_departureestimated_departureactual_departurestatusterminalgatebaggage_claimdelay_minutes
flight_status
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "MU5101",
"date": "2026-08-14",
"scheduled_departure": "2026-08-14T08:30:00",
"actual_departure": "2026-08-14T08:42:00",
"status": "Departed",
"terminal": "T1",
"gate": "A12",
"delay_minutes": 12
# flight_numberdatescheduled_departureestimated_departureactual_departurestatus
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Capabilities

Extract aviation intelligence from China Eastern

Our ceair.com scraper navigates dynamic booking engines, multi-city search flows, and anti-bot mitigation to deliver precise flight and pricing data.

Comprehensive Schedules

Extract origin, destination, departure, arrival, duration, aircraft type, and operating carrier for all MU flights globally.

Dynamic Fare Capture

Track base fares, taxes, surcharges, and total prices across multiple currencies and cabin classes.

Cabin & Fare Class Data

Map detailed fare buckets (J, C, D, I, Y, B, M) to understand yield management and inventory allocation.

Route Network Mapping

Monitor seasonal route additions, frequency changes, and codeshare agreements across the SkyTeam alliance.

Ancillary & Baggage Rules

Capture baggage allowances, extra piece pricing, and seat selection fees tied to specific fare rules.

Live Flight Status

Track scheduled vs. actual departure times, delays, gate changes, and terminal assignments.

Multi-City & Round Trip

Execute complex itinerary searches to extract bundled pricing and connection layover durations.

Multi-Region Point of Sale

Simulate searches from different geographic IPs to capture regional price discrimination and local promotions.

Eastern Miles Earn Rates

Extract loyalty program mileage accrual rates and elite qualifying segments for specific routes and fare classes.

// 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 ceair.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 ceair.com pipeline handles the hard parts

Airlines employ aggressive rate-limiting and dynamic session tokens. Here is how we maintain data flow without interruption.

pipeline-monitor · ceair.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
Session hydration
Managing complex booking flows

Airline booking engines require sequential API calls with valid session tokens, CSRF tokens, and cookie jars. We automate the entire search funnel, maintaining state perfectly to reach the final pricing matrix.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + fingerprint spoofing

ceair.com monitors for high-velocity IP requests. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic UIs

Flight search results and seat maps are heavily JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright browser sessions to execute scripts and hydrate dynamic price widgets.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what's changed

For continuous fare monitoring, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs. We alert on null-rate spikes, fare outliers, schema drift, and coverage drops, responding before you notice.

Applications

Who uses China Eastern data — and how

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

01
OTA & Meta-Search Aggregation

Online travel agencies ingest direct pricing and availability to supplement GDS feeds and offer competitive booking options.

02
Competitor Price Intelligence

Rival airlines monitor MU pricing on competing routes to adjust their own yield management and fare buckets dynamically.

03
Corporate Travel Management

TMCs audit negotiated corporate fare availability against public rates to ensure contract compliance and savings.

04
Aviation Analytics

Consultancies track route frequencies, aircraft deployment, and capacity changes to model airline market share and profitability.

05
Travel Tech & Disruption Management

Startups use real-time flight status and delay data to automate passenger rebooking and compensation claims.

06
Hedge Funds & Alternative Data

Quantitative funds monitor forward-looking seat availability and pricing trends to model airline revenue performance ahead of earnings.

Why DataFlirt

"Airlines adjust pricing dynamically based on yield management algorithms — capturing this data requires continuous polling without triggering bot mitigation."

Extracting data from ceair.com requires managing session states, handling complex multi-city search payloads, and bypassing airline-specific anti-bot heuristics. DataFlirt manages the proxy rotation and session hydration so your engineering team receives clean, normalised JSON.

Technical Spec

ceair.com scraper — technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions — required for booking engine hydration and seat maps
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration for search rate limits
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs rotated per search session to prevent IP bans
Supported
Multi-currency extraction
Capture pricing in CNY, USD, EUR, GBP, and other supported currencies
Supported
Seat map parsing
Extract available vs occupied seats for specific flights and dates
Supported
Flight status tracking
Live tracking of delays, gate changes, and actual departure times
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fares since last run
Supported
Eastern Miles member profiles
Extracting personal mileage balances, tier status, and transaction history
Partial
PNR booking management
Modifying existing passenger reservations or issuing tickets
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the aviation 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 search permutations, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and booking engine interaction.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-session to mimic human search behaviour and prevent airline rate limiting.

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 — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Excel format for business analysts and revenue managers
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 to query latest cached fare data
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
How frequently can you check fares on ceair.com?

We can configure pipelines for daily, hourly, or sub-hourly cadences depending on the number of origin-destination pairs. High-frequency polling uses larger proxy pools to avoid detection.

Do you extract data from the domestic Chinese version of the site?

Yes. We support extraction from both the international portals and the domestic Chinese portal, capturing nuanced pricing differences and domestic-only fare classes.

Can you handle multi-city and layover pricing?

Yes. We can construct complex itinerary searches to capture bundled pricing, layover durations, and connection viability across the China Eastern network.

How do you manage airline anti-bot systems?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. We maintain valid session cookies throughout the search funnel.

Can you track historical fare changes?

Yes. Every pipeline run produces timestamped snapshots. We maintain a time-series record for base fares, taxes, and total prices from the date your pipeline starts.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our packages start at a defined set of routes (e.g., 500 origin-destination pairs) with daily delivery. For broader network coverage, we price based on volume and frequency.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=ceair.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 route network snapshot or continuous fare monitoring across 10,000 flights — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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