Query current flight status (departure/arrival, delays, gate/terminal) for a specific flight via Cirium's FlightStats API on Cirium Developer Studio.
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Steps
Register for an Evaluation account at the Cirium FlightStats Developer Center (developer.flightstats.com) — approval is typically within one business day and grants a time-limited free trial.
Retrieve your appId and appKey credentials from the Developer Studio dashboard once the account is activated.
Call the Flight Status by Flight endpoint documented at developer.cirium.com/apis/flightstats-apis/flight-status, passing appId, appKey, carrier code, flight number, and date as parameters.
Set includeDeltas=true if you want flightStatusUpdates showing how the status changed over time.
Choose your response format — JSON, JSONP, XML, or SOAP are all supported.
For anything older than the live window, switch to the separate Historical Flight Status API rather than reusing this endpoint.
Known gotchas
Current flight information is only available from roughly a few days before departure to about a week after arrival — outside that window this endpoint returns nothing.
Flight Status by Flight is included on Evaluation/Commercial plans, but Flight Status by route and by airport are Contract-plan only — expect access errors on lower tiers.
Evaluation accounts are usage-capped and time-limited, so a demo built on a trial key can stop working mid-project.
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