Aviation Intelligence

Flight Data Scraped in Real-Time

Extract live and historical flight fares, schedules, seat availability, ancillary pricing, and route data from 500+ airlines and all major OTAs. The data backbone for travel tech platforms, revenue management systems, and flight price intelligence products.

500+
Airlines Covered
10M+
Daily Fare Queries
180+
Countries
≀5min
Data Latency
β—† Enterprise Readyβ—† SOC 2 Awareβ—† GDPR Compliantβ—† 99.9% Uptimeβ—† Global Coverageβ—† 24/7 Monitoringβ—† API-Firstβ—† Managed Serviceβ—† Real-Time Dataβ—† Custom Schemasβ—† Bengaluru HQβ—† Enterprise Readyβ—† SOC 2 Awareβ—† GDPR Compliantβ—† 99.9% Uptimeβ—† Global Coverageβ—† 24/7 Monitoringβ—† API-Firstβ—† Managed Serviceβ—† Real-Time Dataβ—† Custom Schemasβ—† Bengaluru HQ
What & Why

What is Aviation & Flight Data Scraping?

Aviation data scraping is the automated collection of structured flight information from airline websites, online travel agencies (OTAs), global distribution systems (GDS), and flight comparison platforms. A single route query surface an enormous amount of structured data: itinerary options across multiple airlines, fares broken down by base price and tax, seat availability at the fare class level, baggage allowances, refund conditions, codeshare relationships, and ancillary product pricing for seat selection, meals, and priority boarding. Scraping this data programmatically β€” across hundreds of routes and booking windows simultaneously β€” gives travel businesses the market intelligence they need to compete effectively.

Airline pricing is one of the most complex dynamic pricing problems in any industry. Fares change thousands of times a day per route, driven by demand signals, competitor pricing, inventory management rules, and revenue optimisation algorithms. The gap between the best and worst fare on a given route at a given moment can be enormous β€” and it collapses or widens within minutes. For revenue managers, travel tech developers, and fare intelligence platforms, having a continuous, accurate feed of this data is not a nice-to-have: it is the product.

DataFlirt's aviation scraping infrastructure is built for this environment. We handle the significant technical challenges that airline and OTA sites present: JavaScript-rendered booking engines with multi-step search flows, CAPTCHA systems, session management, bot detection based on search pattern analysis, and geo-restricted pricing that differs by the apparent location of the searcher. Our infrastructure simulates authentic booking sessions across multiple origin countries to retrieve geo-accurate fare data.

Beyond point-in-time fare queries, we provide historical fare archives β€” critical for revenue management modelling, booking curve analysis, and seasonality research. We also collect schedule data, including timetable information, codeshare arrangements, aircraft types, and on-time performance signals. Whether you need a live fare feed for a travel metasearch engine or a deep historical dataset for yield management model training, DataFlirt's aviation data infrastructure covers both.

Why Travel Businesses Scrape Aviation Data
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Fare Intelligence & Revenue Management
Monitor competitor pricing in real time to calibrate your own yield management system and respond to market moves.
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Rate Parity Monitoring
Ensure your published fares are represented consistently and accurately across every OTA distribution channel.
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Travel Metasearch Engines
Power consumer-facing flight search and comparison products with live, multi-source fare data across all routes.
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Corporate Travel Management
Build employee travel booking tools with live availability and fare data that respects corporate travel policies.
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Demand & Booking Curve Modelling
Use historical fare and availability data to train ML models that forecast demand and optimise pricing strategies.
Capabilities

Everything You Need

Comprehensive extraction built for reliability, accuracy, and scale.

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Live Fare Scraping

Continuous fare collection across cabin classes, booking windows, and routing options β€” capturing every price point across airline direct and OTA channels simultaneously.

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Schedule & Timetable Data

Extract departure and arrival times, codeshare flights, alliance memberships, layover details, aircraft type, and schedule change notifications.

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Seat Availability & Inventory

Monitor seat availability at the fare class level β€” revealing not just whether seats exist, but how many remain in each booking class.

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Ancillary Pricing

Capture baggage fee structures, seat selection pricing, meal options, priority boarding, lounge access, and in-flight upgrade pricing from each carrier.

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Historical Fare Archives

Access to deep historical fare records for route-level trend analysis, booking curve modelling, and seasonal pricing pattern research.

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OTA Price Comparison

Aggregate fares from Expedia, Kayak, Google Flights, MakeMyTrip, Cleartrip, Booking.com, Skyscanner, and 50+ more into a single normalised dataset.

Data Fields

What We Extract

Every field you need, structured and ready to use downstream.

OriginDestinationFlight NumberAirlineAllianceCodeshareDeparture TimeArrival TimeDurationStopsLayover AirportCabin ClassFare ClassBase FareTaxesTotal PriceCurrencySeats LeftBaggage AllowanceHand BaggageRefundableChange FeeFare RulesAircraft TypeOTA SourceSearch DateTravel DateBooking Window
Process

How Our Aviation Data Scraping Service Works

A proven process that turns any source into clean structured data β€” reliably.

01
Define Routes & Parameters
Specify origin-destination pairs, date ranges, cabin classes, airlines, and booking window depths to monitor.
02
Geo-Aware Fare Queries
Sessions simulated from country-specific IP addresses to retrieve geo-accurate fares that reflect true market pricing.
03
Multi-Source Collection
Each route queried against airline direct sites and all major OTAs simultaneously, with results deduped and normalised.
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Ancillary Extraction
Baggage fees, seat pricing, and add-on product costs collected alongside base fares for total cost of travel visibility.
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Deliver to Your Stack
Structured fare data delivered via REST API, WebSocket stream, S3, or database connector on your defined schedule.
Sample Output
response.json
{
  "status": "success",
  "source": "ota_aggregated",
  "queried_at": "2025-03-18T11:42:00Z",
  "route": {
    "origin": "BOM",
    "destination": "LHR",
    "depart_date": "2025-04-10",
    "cabin": "economy"
  },
  "itineraries": [
    {
      "airline": "Air India",
      "flight": "AI 131",
      "departs": "02:10",
      "arrives": "07:25+1",
      "stops": 0,
      "duration_min": 555,
      "base_fare": 38200,
      "total_price": 51490,
      "currency": "INR",
      "seats_left": 4,
      "fare_class": "V",
      "baggage_kg": 23,
      "refundable": false
    }
  ],
  "sources_checked": ["airline_direct","expedia","kayak"]
}
Technical Stack

Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure

Built on proven open-source tools and cloud infrastructure β€” no vendor lock-in.

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Geo-Targeted Proxy Sessions

Country-specific residential proxies simulate authentic search sessions from each target market for geo-accurate fare retrieval.

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Multi-Step Booking Engine Automation

Playwright automates complex multi-page search flows on airline and OTA sites that cannot be accessed via simple HTTP requests.

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Parallel Route Monitoring

Distributed workers query hundreds of routes simultaneously, maintaining near real-time fare coverage across your defined network.

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Fare Change Detection

Intelligent diff engine flags price changes, class closures, and new inventory openings with timestamps for change-driven alerting.

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Booking Curve Tracking

Automated forward-looking queries across multiple booking windows capture how fares evolve from 365 days out to day-of-departure.

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Normalised Aviation Schema

All fares normalised to a consistent schema regardless of source β€” IATA codes, standardised cabin classes, and unified currency conversion.

Tools & Technologies
PythonPlaywrightPuppeteerScrapyaiohttpAsyncioNode.jsRedisPostgreSQLTimescaleDBBigQuerySnowflakeAWS LambdaDockerResidential ProxiesBright DataParquetKafka
Use Cases

Built for Every Team

From solo analysts to enterprise data teams β€” here's how organizations use this data.

01
Revenue Management Systems
Feed competitor fare data into your yield management platform to trigger real-time pricing responses to market moves.
02
Flight Metasearch Platforms
Power consumer flight comparison engines with live, multi-source fare data across all routes, airlines, and booking classes.
03
OTA Rate Parity Monitoring
Verify that your published fares appear consistently and correctly across all distribution channels and OTA partners.
04
Corporate Travel Tools
Build managed travel platforms with real-time availability and policy-compliant fare options for business travellers.
05
Booking Curve & Demand Analysis
Use historical fare and availability snapshots to model demand patterns, forecast load factors, and identify pricing opportunities.
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Ancillary Revenue Benchmarking
Compare baggage fees, seat selection pricing, and add-on revenue strategies across carriers to optimise your own ancillary mix.

Aviation Pricing Is the Most Complex Data Problem in Travel

Airline fares change thousands of times daily per route, driven by inventory rules, demand signals, and competitor moves that interact in real time. Getting this data reliably β€” at scale, with geo-accuracy, across both airline direct and OTA channels β€” requires infrastructure purpose-built for the aviation environment. DataFlirt delivers structured, continuously updated flight data that travel tech companies, revenue managers, and intelligence platforms use to compete on price and insight.

Pricing

Simple, Scalable Pricing

Start free and scale as your data needs grow.

Starter
$99/mo

For small teams and projects getting started with data.

  • 50,000 records/month
  • 5 data sources
  • Daily refresh
  • JSON & CSV export
  • Email support
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Enterprise
Custom

For large organizations with custom requirements.

  • Unlimited records
  • Dedicated infrastructure
  • Real-time delivery
  • SLA guarantees
  • Account manager
  • Custom integrations
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FAQ

Common Questions

Everything you need to know before getting started.

Do you cover low-cost carriers as well as full-service airlines?
Yes. We cover the full carrier spectrum β€” full-service legacy carriers, low-cost carriers (IndiGo, Ryanair, EasyJet, Spirit, AirAsia), ultra-low-cost, and regional operators. Direct LCC website scraping is available for carriers that don't distribute through OTAs.
How do you handle geo-restricted pricing differences?
We use residential proxies in the origin country of each search to retrieve fares as a local user would see them. This captures market-specific pricing, local currency display, and geo-restricted promotional fares that are invisible from other locations.
Can you scrape historical fare data for backtesting?
Yes. We maintain historical fare archives for major routes going back 24+ months. We can also structure ongoing collection to build custom historical datasets for your specific route network or booking window requirements.
What is your data latency for live fare monitoring?
For active route monitoring, fares are refreshed at intervals you define β€” from every 15 minutes to hourly or daily. For demand-driven live querying via API, results are returned within seconds per route.
Do you support multi-city and open-jaw itinerary queries?
Yes. We support one-way, return, multi-city, and open-jaw itinerary queries. Fare collection can be configured for specific routing structures depending on your product requirements.
Can you collect data from GDS systems?
We can collect publicly visible GDS-sourced pricing through OTA front-ends. Direct GDS API access requires carrier-specific authorisation which we can help evaluate for your use case.
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