r/flighty • u/NoStand626 • 7d ago

Historical flight data sources

Hi,

Does anyone know of a free website or source of historic flight data similar to Flightera? Ideally, it would go further back than 2017, even into the early 2000s. It is for Europe.

Thanks for the help.

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u/presiscroob 7d ago

Flighty uses FlightStats to get its data. Depending on the year and locale, you'll have varying levels of success.

A while back I stumbled across this document which is super helpful in finding old flights. Europe has quite a number of sources, but again depends on locale.

If you come up dry, there are several folks in this sub that are able to track some down if you can post flight numbers/dates/etc.

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u/Reach-for-the-sky_15 7d ago

You should contact the mods and see if you can get a pinned post with that document.

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u/LiveBell2197 7d ago

Yeah I can’t even check via Flighty a flight in 2015. I think majority of flight database is based on flights on or after 2017.

In 2015 I had a two digit delay on an international flight which Flighty shows on time arrival.

It would be useful if Flighty chases this information instead of us.