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KLM flight data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract flight schedules, dynamic fare classes, seat maps, and route availability from KLM. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Flights tracked
84.2K /day
Fare updates
1.2M /24h
Routes covered
4,192 /run
Active pipelines
41
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

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

flight_numberorigindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutesaircraft_typestopsoperated_bystatus
flight_schedules
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "KL601",
"origin": "AMS",
"destination": "LAX",
"departure_time": "2026-05-14T09:50:00Z",
"arrival_time": "2026-05-14T11:50:00Z",
"duration_minutes": 660,
"aircraft_type": "Boeing 787-10"
# flight_numberorigindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutes
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Fares objects from klm.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdeparture_datecabin_classfare_typepricecurrencytax_amountbase_fareflying_blue_milesseats_remaining
pricing_& fares
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "KL601",
"cabin_class": "Economy",
"fare_type": "Standard",
"price": 849.0,
"currency": "EUR",
"flying_blue_miles": 3400,
"seats_remaining": 4
# flight_numberdeparture_datecabin_classfare_typepricecurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Seat Maps & Availability objects from klm.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdatecabin_classtotal_seatsavailable_seatsoccupied_seatsseat_map_urleconomy_comfort_priceextra_legroom_availablebusiness_class_price
seat_maps & availability
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "KL601",
"cabin_class": "World Business Class",
"total_seats": 38,
"available_seats": 12,
"occupied_seats": 26,
"business_class_price": 3299.0
# flight_numberdatecabin_classtotal_seatsavailable_seatsoccupied_seats
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Complete list of extractable fields for Route Network objects from klm.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

origin_airportdest_airportdirect_flightfrequency_per_weekfirst_departurelast_departuredistance_kmseasonal_routealliance_partners
route_network
● 200 OK
"origin_airport": "AMS",
"dest_airport": "NRT",
"direct_flight": true,
"frequency_per_week": 7,
"distance_km": 9300,
"alliance_partners": "['Air France', 'Delta']"
# origin_airportdest_airportdirect_flightfrequency_per_weekfirst_departurelast_departure
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Complete list of extractable fields for Baggage & Ancillaries objects from klm.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberfare_typechecked_bags_allowedcabin_bags_allowedmax_weight_kgextra_bag_pricewifi_availablemeal_includedlounge_access_price
baggage_& ancillaries
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "KL601",
"fare_type": "Light",
"checked_bags_allowed": 0,
"cabin_bags_allowed": 1,
"extra_bag_price": 60.0,
"wifi_available": true
# flight_numberfare_typechecked_bags_allowedcabin_bags_allowedmax_weight_kgextra_bag_price
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Capabilities

Everything you need from KLM — nothing you don't

Our KLM scraper handles the entire booking flow: dynamic pricing matrices, multi-city route networks, and seat availability — bypassing Akamai bot protection and complex session states.

Flight Schedule Extraction

Departure, arrival, block time, aircraft equipment, and operating carrier data across the entire KLM and SkyTeam network.

Dynamic Fare Tracking

Capture Light, Standard, and Flex fare tiers across Economy, Premium Comfort, and World Business Class. Timestamped per crawl.

Flying Blue Integration

Extract miles required for reward flights and miles earned per cash fare, mapping loyalty program value against standard pricing.

Seat Map Parsing

Determine load factors by scraping available vs occupied seats, including Economy Comfort and extra legroom upgrade fees.

Code-Share Resolution

Identify true operating carriers for Air France, Delta, and Virgin Atlantic code-shares sold through the KLM storefront.

Multi-Currency & POS Support

Set Point of Sale (POS) parameters to extract localised pricing in EUR, USD, GBP, and other currencies to detect geo-arbitrage.

Baggage & Ancillary Fees

Track extra baggage costs, lounge access fees, and paid meal options tied to specific fare classes.

Aircraft & Fleet Data

Map specific tail numbers or equipment types (e.g., Boeing 777-300ER, Embraer 195-E2) to specific routes and schedules.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

Run batch extractions 90 days out, or configure continuous pipelines for high-frequency price monitoring on competitive routes.

// engagement pipeline

From route list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide O&D (Origin & Destination) pairs, date ranges, and cabin classes. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

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

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and schedule verification 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 KLM pipeline handles the hard parts

Airlines employ aggressive bot mitigation to protect pricing data. Here's how our infrastructure maintains continuous access.

pipeline-monitor · klm.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
Bot Mitigation
Bypassing Akamai and strict WAFs

KLM relies on Akamai to block automated traffic. We use residential European proxies, clean TLS fingerprints, and humanised interaction delays to bypass rate limits and maintain high success rates.

Session State
Managing complex booking flows

Flight searches require maintaining stateful sessions across multiple XHR requests. Our Playwright orchestrator manages cookies, local storage, and hidden tokens to progress through the search funnel without dropping context.

Dynamic Rendering
Hydrating SPA pricing matrices

Fare calendars and multi-tier pricing grids are rendered client-side. We execute JavaScript fully to capture the final DOM state, ensuring we extract the exact prices displayed to users.

Change Detection
Only alert on fare class changes

Airlines adjust inventory constantly. We maintain a state hash of previously seen fare classes and prices, emitting diffs only when inventory buckets open or close, saving you downstream processing.

Observability
Real-time anomaly detection

If KLM alters its search API or DOM structure, our Prometheus and Grafana stack flags the schema drift immediately. We deploy selector updates before your downstream models consume bad data.

Applications

Who uses KLM data — and how

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

01
Price Intelligence

OTAs and competing airlines monitor KLM's fare buckets and dynamic pricing to adjust their own revenue management algorithms.

02
Route Network Analysis

Aviation analysts track schedule changes, frequency adjustments, and equipment downgrades to gauge route profitability.

03
Loyalty Program Tracking

Points aggregators extract Flying Blue redemption rates to calculate cent-per-mile valuations and alert users to reward availability.

04
Travel Aggregation

Metasearch engines enrich their caching layers with direct-from-carrier pricing to reduce GDS query costs.

05
Demand Forecasting

Hedge funds and PE firms correlate seat map load factors with macroeconomic trends to forecast airline quarterly revenue.

06
Competitive Benchmarking

Ancillary revenue teams analyse KLM's pricing for extra baggage, seat selection, and Wi-Fi to optimise their own fee structures.

Why DataFlirt

"Airline pricing is the original dynamic market. Without programmatic access to fare buckets and seat maps, revenue management is just guesswork."

Extracting data from major airlines requires navigating complex booking flows, aggressive bot mitigation, and highly dynamic frontend architectures. DataFlirt manages the residential proxy rotation, session handling, and selector maintenance so your data science team can focus on yield analysis — not infrastructure troubleshooting.

Technical Spec

KLM scraper — technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required to hydrate fare matrices and seat maps
Supported
Akamai bypass
TLS fingerprinting and residential IP rotation to avoid WAF blocks
Supported
Multi-currency POS
Extract fares in EUR, USD, GBP, and local currencies based on proxy location
Supported
Seat map extraction
Parse SVG/JSON seat maps to calculate available vs occupied inventory
Supported
Flying Blue reward pricing
Extract miles required and cash surcharges for reward bookings
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diffing to emit records only when prices or availability shift
Supported
User profile / booking history
Extraction of past flights or PNR data from authenticated accounts
Partial
Post-login Flying Blue tier data
Elite-specific pricing or hidden inventory requiring Platinum/Gold login
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the KLM pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusFastAPITerraform
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy manages request queues and concurrency. Playwright executes the complex XHR sequences required to generate KLM flight search results and seat maps.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We route requests through ISP-grade residential IP pools in the EU to match expected Point of Sale behaviour and bypass Akamai rate limits.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines are deployed on Kubernetes with Airflow managing schedule dependencies. Postgres stores state hashes for incremental diff delivery.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

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

JSON
Nested schema containing full flight, fare, and segment details
CSV
Flattened files for immediate analysis in pandas or Excel
XLS
Formatted spreadsheet exports for non-technical revenue teams
Parquet
Columnar storage optimised for Athena, BigQuery, and Snowflake
AWS S3
Direct delivery to your bucket with automated partition management
Webhook
HTTP POST callbacks for real-time price drop alerting
API
RESTful endpoints to query cached pricing and availability data
BigQuery
Direct streaming inserts into your analytical data warehouse
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping KLM legal?

Extracting public fare and schedule data is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only unauthenticated, publicly accessible search flows. We do not bypass login gates or extract personally identifiable information (PII). Clients should consult their legal counsel regarding specific commercial use cases.

How do you bypass Akamai bot protection?

We utilise residential proxies, TLS fingerprint spoofing, and human-like interaction patterns via Playwright to ensure our requests resemble legitimate user traffic, preventing IP bans and CAPTCHA loops.

Can you extract Flying Blue reward availability?

Yes. We can extract the miles required and associated cash taxes for reward flights, allowing you to monitor redemption availability across specific routes.

How frequently can you update prices?

For targeted O&D pairs, we can run continuous pipelines achieving sub-hourly updates. Broader network scans are typically executed daily to balance compute costs with data freshness.

Do you extract seat map data?

Yes. We parse the seat selection flow to determine total capacity, occupied seats, and available seats, including premium options like Economy Comfort.

Can you handle multi-city or complex itineraries?

Our schema fully supports multi-segment flights, capturing stopovers, connection times, and operating carriers for each leg of the journey.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=klm.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 daily schedule updates or high-frequency fare monitoring across key routes — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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