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Lufthansa flight data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract flight schedules, dynamic pricing, fare classes, routing options, and availability from lufthansa.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Flights tracked
142K /day
Price updates
1.2M /24h
Routes monitored
4,192
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

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

flight_numberorigindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timedurationaircraft_typeoperating_airlinecodesharestops
flight_schedules
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "LH400",
"origin": "FRA",
"destination": "JFK",
"departure_time": "2024-10-12T10:50:00Z",
"arrival_time": "2024-10-12T13:40:00Z",
"duration": "8h 50m",
"aircraft_type": "Boeing 747-8",
"operating_airline": "Lufthansa"
# flight_numberorigindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timeduration
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Fares objects from lufthansa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numbercabin_classfare_typebase_faretaxestotal_pricecurrencymiles_requiredbooking_classprice_timestamp
pricing_& fares
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "LH400",
"cabin_class": "Economy",
"fare_type": "Economy Classic",
"total_price": 492.5,
"currency": "EUR",
"miles_required": 25000,
"booking_class": "K",
"price_timestamp": "2024-05-12T09:14:00Z"
# flight_numbercabin_classfare_typebase_faretaxestotal_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Routing & Layovers objects from lufthansa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

itinerary_idorigindestinationtotal_durationsegment_countsegmentslayover_airportslayover_durationstotal_pricecurrency
routing_& layovers
● 200 OK
"itinerary_id": "FRA-JFK-LH400",
"origin": "FRA",
"destination": "JFK",
"total_duration": "8h 50m",
"segment_count": 1,
"layover_airports": "[]",
"layover_durations": "[]",
"total_price": 492.5
# itinerary_idorigindestinationtotal_durationsegment_countsegments
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Complete list of extractable fields for Availability & Seats objects from lufthansa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberdatecabin_classseats_remainingwaitlist_availableseat_map_urlpitchwidthpower_outletswifi_available
availability_& seats
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "LH400",
"date": "2024-10-12",
"cabin_class": "Business",
"seats_remaining": 4,
"wifi_available": true,
"pitch": "78 inch",
"width": "20 inch",
"power_outlets": true
# flight_numberdatecabin_classseats_remainingwaitlist_availableseat_map_url
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Complete list of extractable fields for Baggage & Ancillaries objects from lufthansa.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

fare_typecabin_baggage_allowancechecked_baggage_allowanceextra_bag_feeseat_selection_feerefund_policychange_feepriority_boardinglounge_access
baggage_& ancillaries
● 200 OK
"fare_type": "Economy Light",
"cabin_baggage_allowance": "1 x 8kg",
"checked_baggage_allowance": "0",
"extra_bag_fee": 65.0,
"seat_selection_fee": 25.0,
"refund_policy": "Non-refundable",
"change_fee": 150.0,
"lounge_access": false
# fare_typecabin_baggage_allowancechecked_baggage_allowanceextra_bag_feeseat_selection_feerefund_policy
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Lufthansa - nothing you do not

Our Lufthansa scraper handles complex booking flows, multi-leg routing, dynamic pricing, and fare class variations with full session management and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Schedule & Route Extraction

Extract direct flights, multi-city itineraries, codeshares, and layover durations across the entire Lufthansa network.

Dynamic Fare Tracking

Capture real-time pricing across Economy Light, Classic, Flex, Business, and First Class tiers.

Seat Availability Monitoring

Track remaining seats per cabin class to model demand and pricing algorithms.

Ancillary Fees & Baggage

Extract checked baggage allowances, seat selection fees, and cancellation policies per fare type.

Miles & More Pricing

Capture award flight availability and point requirements alongside cash prices.

Geographic Price Localisation

Rotate IP origins to capture point-of-sale specific pricing and currency conversions.

High-Frequency Polling

Run scheduled extractions at hourly or daily cadences to track fare volatility leading up to departure.

Aircraft & Cabin Details

Extract equipment types, seat pitch, Wi-Fi availability, and in-flight service indicators.

Change Detection

Maintain hash indexes of last-seen fares and only push diffs to reduce downstream processing load.

// engagement pipeline

From route list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide origin-destination pairs, date ranges, and required fare 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 lufthansa.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 Lufthansa pipeline handles the hard parts

Airlines invest heavily in scraping detection to protect pricing data. Here is how we stay resilient.

pipeline-monitor · lufthansa.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
Bypassing Akamai and Datadome

Lufthansa uses advanced bot mitigation. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full TLS spoofing.

Session management
Navigating complex booking SPAs

Flight searches require multi-step stateful interactions. We maintain persistent cookie sessions and execute JavaScript flows exactly like a human user.

IP localisation
Point-of-sale pricing accuracy

Airlines change prices based on user geography. We route requests through region-specific residential proxies to capture the exact local fare.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors for dynamic DOMs

Lufthansa frequently updates its booking interface. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains so layout changes do not break your data pipeline.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs. We alert on null-rate spikes, fare outliers, and coverage drops. SLA uptime is contractual.

Applications

Who uses Lufthansa data - and how

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

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

Rival airlines and OTAs track Lufthansa fares across key routes to adjust their own dynamic pricing algorithms.

02
Corporate Travel Optimisation

Enterprise procurement teams monitor historical fare trends to negotiate better corporate rates and optimise booking windows.

03
Demand Forecasting

Analysts correlate seat availability drops and fare increases to model passenger demand on specific European and transatlantic routes.

04
Market Research

Aviation consultants track capacity, frequency changes, and route expansion to evaluate market share and network strategy.

05
Award Flight Aggregation

Frequent flyer platforms aggregate Miles & More availability to alert users when premium cabin award seats open up.

06
Investment Due Diligence

Hedge funds and PE firms extract real-time booking velocity signals to forecast quarterly revenue performance.

Why DataFlirt

"Airlines treat pricing data as highly confidential IP. Extracting it at scale requires bypassing military-grade bot protection and complex stateful booking flows."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Lufthansa scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA handling, daily selector maintenance, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis - not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Lufthansa scraper - technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for flight search SPAs
Supported
Bot mitigation bypass
Handles Akamai and custom WAF challenges
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs for point-of-sale pricing
Supported
Multi-currency extraction
Captures base fares, taxes, and totals in local currency
Supported
Award availability
Extracts Miles & More point requirements for flights
Supported
Seat map parsing
Extracts remaining seats per cabin class
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fares
Supported
Private passenger profiles
Extracting saved payment methods or passport details
Partial
Booked itinerary retrieval
Accessing specific PNRs without user consent
Partial
Miles & More account balances
Scraping private user loyalty account totals
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Lufthansa 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. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and multi-step booking flows.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across European regions to ensure accurate point-of-sale pricing and bypass IP bans.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. State stored in 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
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
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 extracted fares
XLS
Legacy Excel format for offline analysis
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping lufthansa.com legal?

Scraping publicly available flight schedules and pricing is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated data. We do not extract personal passenger data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review Terms of Service and consult legal counsel.

How do you handle airline bot protection?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. We monitor for CAPTCHA rate spikes and trigger solver queues automatically.

Can you capture dynamic pricing based on point-of-sale?

Yes. We route requests through region-specific proxies to simulate users searching from specific countries, capturing the exact local fare and currency.

How fresh is the flight data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-60-minute latency for pricing on defined routes. Full schedule refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 6-12 hour window.

Can you track seat availability?

Yes. We monitor remaining seat indicators across different cabin classes to help model demand and capacity.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined route list (typically 1,000-10,000 routes) with weekly delivery. For larger networks, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 100 routes as part of the pre-engagement scoping process so you can validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=lufthansa.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 schedule dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across 5,000 routes - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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