{"id":39143,"date":"2026-02-22T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/flight-tracking-api-for-small-scale-commercial-use-whats-actually-worth-it\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:27:11","slug":"flight-tracking-api-for-small-scale-commercial-use-whats-actually-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/flight-tracking-api-for-small-scale-commercial-use-whats-actually-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Flight Tracking API For Small-scale Commercial Use&#8230;what&#8217;s Actually Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hey all &#8211; working on a dispatch system for a small airport shuttle service. One of the components is adjusting pickup times based on flight delays\/early arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been researching flight tracking APIs and so far I&#8217;ve come across:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; AeroDataBox (~$15-30\/mo on RapidAPI)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Airlabs ($49\/mo for 25K queries)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; FlightAware AeroAPI ($100\/mo minimum)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; FlightStats\/Cirium (enterprise pricing, way out of budget)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re only tracking maybe 30-40 domestic arrivals per day at one airport (PHX). Not looking for anything fancy &#8211; just arrival ETAs, delay notifications, and maybe gate\/terminal info if available.<\/p>\n<p>Push notifications\/webhooks would be awesome so we&#8217;re not wasting API queries polling, but polling would be doable if the price is right.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else working with flight data at a small scale? Something cheaper\/better that I&#8217;m missing? Open to scrappy solutions too &#8211; just needs to be stable enough for a real business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/zues8\"> \/u\/zues8 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1rb4n5x\/flight_tracking_api_for_smallscale_commercial\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1rb4n5x\/flight_tracking_api_for_smallscale_commercial\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39143 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39143' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-39143 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39143 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all &#8211; working on a dispatch system for a small airport shuttle service. One of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}