Airline Database

Airline database

As of January 2012, the OpenFlights Airlines Database contains 5888 airlines. Some of the information is public data and some is contributed by users.

Content

The data is ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) encoded.

Each entry contains the following information:

• Airline ID Unique OpenFlights identifier for this airline.
• Name Name of the airline.
• Alias Alias of the airline. For example, All Nippon Airways is commonly known as "ANA".
• IATA 2-letter IATA code, if available.
• ICAO 3-letter ICAO code, if available.
• Callsign Airline callsign.
• Country Country or territory where airline is incorporated.
• Active "Y" if the airline is or has until recently been operational, "N" if it is defunct. This field is not reliable: in particular, major airlines that stopped flying long ago, but have not had their IATA code reassigned (eg. Ansett/AN), will incorrectly show as "Y".

The special value \N is used for "NULL" to indicate that no value is available. This is from a MySQL database where \N is used for NULL.

Notes: Airlines with null codes/callsigns/countries generally represent user-added airlines. Since the data is intended primarily for current flights, defunct IATA codes are generally not included. For example, "Sabena" is not listed with a SN IATA code, since "SN" is presently used by its successor Brussels Airlines.

Acknowledgements

This dataset was downloaded from Openflights.org under the Open Database license. This is an excellent resource and there is a lot more on their website, so check them out!