FlightAware API
AeroAPI is a self-serve public REST API with 60+ endpoints across flights, airports, operators, alerts, and history, keyed via an x-apikey header. Tiers run from a Personal plan with $5 monthly free credit to Premium at $1,000 per month minimum; pricing is per 15-record result set.
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FlightAware scores D+ on Supergood's API Report Card. AeroAPI is a self-serve public REST API with 60+ endpoints across flights, airports, operators, alerts, and history, keyed via an x-apikey header. Tiers run from a Personal plan with $5 monthly free credit to Premium at $1,000 per month minimum; pricing is per 15-record result set.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
FlightAware is the leading global digital aviation company and the canonical source of real-time and historical flight tracking data. The company operates two flagship commercial data products.
Primary vertical: Fleet / Trucking / Logistics, specifically the aviation logistics, dispatch, and freight-visibility slice. A freight forwarder integrates AeroAPI into its TMS to pull live position and predicted-arrival data for inbound air-cargo AWBs.
Very high in the aviation data ecosystem.
FlightAware sits in the operational path of every aviation-adjacent system that depends on knowing where a plane is and when it will arrive.
Founded in 2005 in Houston, Texas by Daniel Baker. FlightAware pioneered free consumer flight tracking online and built the PiAware community ADS-B receiver network starting in 2014, growing to ~41,000 receivers worldwide.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
FlightAware has partial MCP support. FlightAware publishes no official MCP server, but maintained community servers wrap its AeroAPI, including an npm-installable server listed in the official MCP registry with activity in August 2026. Users must supply their own AeroAPI key.
Partially. MCP support for FlightAware exists but is incomplete, so what MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can reach depends on what the available server covers.