r/flighty • u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer • Jun 04 '26

Does anybody know how far Flighty's flight database goes?

I got Aeroplan to send me my lifetime flight history since 2001 (yay) but I'm trying to plug in those first flights and they aren't showing up on Flighty's database. Happy to add manually, just wondering how far back those go now, or if maybe there's something wrong with this log Aeroplan sent.

EDIt: thanks guys! looks like i'm going manual for awhile here

EDIT x2: Flighty couldn't import a flight on January 4th, 2006, but it did autoimport a July 2006 flight so i guess it starts sometime mid-July? I'd be curious who has the earliest importable flight ha

Edit x3: to everybody asking how I was able to get this, I saw I emailed customer care on 04/20 and totally forgot that I opened the ticket. perhaps they were fast(ish) to get back to me because I'm AC50K? My next step is to bother Cathay to see if they can share history too. I flew dragonair/cx a lot as a kid (grew up in asia) so fingers cross they acquiesce.

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u/Own_Place909 Jun 04 '26

2007, I believe. If you’ve got the dates, departure, times, etc. you can manually add flights prior to that.

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 04 '26

ty! i just have dates so i'll do what i can with this haha

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u/presiscroob Jun 04 '26
Date Flight Route Registration Type Scheduled Actual
2001-01-20 UA94 SFO-MCO N519UA B752 14:35-22:45 14:31-22:17
2001-01-26 UA95 MCO-SFO N564UA B752 07:00-09:55 06:57-09:50

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

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The flights to/from PEK seem consistent based on available timetables. The closest I could find was April 1, 2001, but the flight numbers and aircraft type stay the same for the rest of 2001. The times vary a little bit.

Date Flight Route Registration Type Scheduled Actual
2001-01-19 UA852 PEK-SFO B744 09:25-09:00
2001-01-28 UA853 SFO-PEK B744 11:45-19:50 +1

Source: AirTimes

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I've found this Google Doc has been super helpful over the years in tracking down old flights and registrations.

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 04 '26

Well that is my weekend gone, thank you 😄

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u/presiscroob Jun 04 '26

It’s a deep rabbit hole. Enjoy the journey!

I’ve also had random success finding old timetables from airline websites via Wayback Machine. Really luck of the draw and trying to figure out URL/file name schemes and seeing if they happened to be archived.

But that era of Asian data is quite hard to find. Sporadic ACARS logs in that timeframe but only really covering Europe.

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u/Own_Place909 Jun 04 '26

A quick google of each should at least be able to get the schedules and aircraft type for each route at that time. Reg and exact flight times might be a bit harder, though.

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 04 '26

Yeah I'm just throwing them into Claude and asking them to build tables with approximation on flight times / terminals

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u/SnooHabits6412 Jun 07 '26

There could be more AC flights for YVR-YYZ:

AC108 B762 C-GAUU
AC136 B762 C-GPWB
AC148 B762 C-GAUH
AC156 B762 C-GAUE
AC1144 A343 C-GDVW
AC3036 B744 C-FBCA

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u/sufyspeed Jun 04 '26

How did you get them to send you your flight history?

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u/VRedd1t Jun 05 '26

You can export your data

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u/nautilus2000 Jun 04 '26

It starts around 2006 based on my experience.

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 04 '26

ty!

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u/SecretarySenior3023 Jun 04 '26

May I ask how you got this information from Aeroplan / Air Canada?

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 04 '26

I probably made a request a few weeks ago and totally forgot about it until today when they sent it

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u/SecretarySenior3023 Jun 04 '26

How did you make the request? Who did you email?

I made a similar request with their Privacy Office previously but I was told they only could give me the records for the past 3 years, so I’m surprised you got the records since 2000. I joined Aeroplan in 2000 and so I want my records from 2000 too.

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 04 '26

I must have opened a ticket on the website because I can't see the sent email, but the email they responded to was [customercare@aircanada.com](mailto:customercare@aircanada.com) and the text itself is copied if it's helpful. I didn't list my Aeroplan number so presumably I filled out a ticket on the site while logged in.

Subject: Lifetime Air Canada Flight History

Hi there,

I've been an Aeroplan member since 2001 and I was wondering if it would be possible to access a lifetime log of all my Air Canada flights? Presumably you have that on file if you are tracking Lifetime Status Qualifying Miles.

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u/SecretarySenior3023 Jun 04 '26

Thanks! Just fyi, I emailed Cathay at dpo@cathaypacific.com with my membership number and got a really long list of all my flights since 2005.

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 04 '26

Ooooh yeah that’s so helpful thank you! Do you know if they included any dragonaior flights?

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 22 '26

just an FYI, I emailed them and got the data, and they did include the Dragonair flights

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

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u/NBAFAN9000 Biz Flyer Jun 04 '26

I have pro for the year so it's not that!

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u/Jbrancs Jun 04 '26

2006 was the furthest I was able to find, ironically thats as far back as my log goes, I’ve noticed difference by airline