Monitor real-time flight status and disruptions using the FlightAware AeroAPI

Steps

1. Authenticate requests to the FlightAware AeroAPI (api.flightaware.com) using your API key in the x-apikey request header.
2. To retrieve live flight status, call the /flights/{ident} endpoint where ident is the ICAO-format flight identifier (e.g., UAL123); parse the status field and estimated times for departure and arrival.
3. Subscribe to flight events by polling the /flights/{ident}/track endpoint or by registering a push endpoint via the /push rules API to receive real-time position and status updates.
4. For proactive disruption monitoring across a set of bookings, iterate over your tracked flight IDs and compare estimated departure/arrival times against original scheduled times; flag delays exceeding a threshold (e.g., 45 minutes).
5. When a cancellation event is detected (status = 'cancelled'), trigger your rebooking workflow and notify the traveler via your preferred channel.
6. Normalize all timestamps to UTC on ingestion and store the IANA timezone for each airport separately for local-time display.