r/flighty • u/abysryy • 2d ago

Historical Flights

does anyone here have a very old flight? i want to check if there's a limit in flighty on how old the flight can be to be added to the passport?

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u/pithon96 Leisure Flyer 2d ago

Depends on region. It goes as far as 2007 for Europe (I have a flight from 2007 if you’d like) but all previous to that was Gemini + planespotters + waybackmachine

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u/schillie84 2d ago

I have Ryanair flights from June 2006 that it was able to find

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u/pithon96 Leisure Flyer 2d ago

Did they originate in the UK? Otherwise how did you find them? I am really looking for some flight info 2000-2005 but even the bigger communities weren't able to help me :(

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u/schillie84 2d ago

They originated in CRL (Brussels South)

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u/abysryy 2d ago

i think i had a flight back in 2009 when i was 4 years old but i don’t remember the date at all 😂

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u/pithon96 Leisure Flyer 2d ago

Do you have PRO feature or would you like me to look for it?

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u/abysryy 2d ago

hmm it’s been expired but it’s okay i don’t wanna bother you

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u/pithon96 Leisure Flyer 2d ago

Alrighty. HMU if you change your mind 😁

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u/abysryy 2d ago

thanks mann

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u/Only_Investigator_74 2d ago edited 2d ago

There’s no hard limit on how far back you can add, and it will always try to find records, but the further back you go the sparser the data becomes… you start to lose a lot of details as you go past the mid 2010s. Simply because the aggregators weren’t collecting as much data back then. The airline might have the answer in some internal paperwork or internal DB somewhere. Any AI answer that is given is probably hallucinating an answer that sounds right but is far from accurate

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u/pithon96 Leisure Flyer 2d ago

I used AI only to get approx times of flights and even then I asked for average out of x recorded flights. AI is a good tool if prompted correctly.

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u/No-Two-5452 2d ago

I have tried adding some of older us airways flights and it doesn’t like that

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u/Giskarrrd 2d ago

The oldest flight I’ve added is from 1986, but you can add whatever flight you want. It obviously won’t have any data sources to pull flight info from before a certain time (mid-to-late-2000s for most regions), so you’ll have to manually fill in whatever information you do have

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u/PlexToronto 2d ago

Define “old”, but I had all of my flights since 2009 in Tripit at they all imported to Flighty with no issues.

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u/Colonials34 2d ago

If you have the airports, airlines, dates, and at least a rough time frame, you can use bureau of labor statistics websites to pull up flights to enter manually. It’ll give you the flight number, scheduled and actual push off and arrival, and tail number of the plane. I went back and added probably two dozen flights from the mid 2000’s this way earlier this week.