Airlines

Name: Airlines
Creator: staticdata.dev
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

Airlines from the OpenFlights open dataset that OpenFlights marks as active and that hold a valid IATA (2-character) or ICAO (3-letter) airline designator. Each record includes the airline name, country of registration, ATC callsign, both codes where available, and an `active` flag that we have corrected for well-known carriers that have since ceased operating.

v1.0.0 ODbL-1.0 1,189 records Updated 2026-10-05 stable Source: OpenFlights Airlines Database

Quick fetch

Stable URL. CORS-enabled. No auth.

bash

curl https://staticdata.dev/v1/airlines.json

Or use as a typed import: import { airlines } from "https://staticdata.dev/v1/airlines.ts"

Formats

JSON 174.2 KB

/v1/airlines.json

Open

min: 125.5 KB · /v1/airlines.min.json
CSV 52.2 KB

/v1/airlines.csv

Open
TypeScript 174.4 KB

/v1/airlines.ts

export const airlines

type Airline = (typeof airlines)[number]

Open

Schema

Each record in the dataset has the following shape.

Schema
Field	Type	Description	Example
iata?	string \| null	IATA 2-character airline designator	AA
icao?	string \| null	ICAO 3-letter airline designator	AAL
name	string \| null	Airline name	American Airlines
country?	string \| null	Country of registration	United States
callsign?	string \| null	ATC radio callsign	AMERICAN
active	boolean	Whether the airline is active (OpenFlights flag, corrected for well-known defunct carriers as of October 2026)	true

Preview

First 10 records.

Data preview
iata	icao	name	country	callsign	active
1T	RNX	1Time Airline	South Africa	NEXTIME	false
Q5	MLA	40-Mile Air	United States	MILE-AIR	true
47	VVN	88	Cyprus		true
1B		Abacus International	Singapore		true
M3	TUS	ABSA - Aerolinhas Brasileiras	Brazil	ABSA Cargo	true
MO	AUH	Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight	United Arab Emirates	SULTAN	true
ZA	CYD	Access Air	United States	CYCLONE	true
	AES	ACES Colombia	Colombia	ACES	true
	VUE	AD Aviation	United Kingdom	FLIGHTVUE	true
ZY	ADE	Ada Air	Albania	ADA AIR	true

Showing 10 of 1,189. View full data: JSON · CSV

Fetch examples

Drop-in snippets in five languages.

curl

curl -sSL https://staticdata.dev/v1/airlines.json | jq '.[0]'

JavaScript

import type { Airline } from "https://staticdata.dev/v1/airlines.ts";

const res = await fetch("https://staticdata.dev/v1/airlines.min.json");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Fetch failed: ${res.status}`);
const airlines: Airline[] = await res.json();
console.log(airlines[0]);

Python

import urllib.request, json

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://staticdata.dev/v1/airlines.min.json") as r:
    airlines = json.load(r)

print(airlines[0])

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	resp, err := http.Get("https://staticdata.dev/v1/airlines.min.json")
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data []map[string]any
	if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(data[0])
}

Rust

use serde_json::Value;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let body = ureq::get("https://staticdata.dev/v1/airlines.min.json").call()?.into_string()?;
    let data: Vec<Value> = serde_json::from_str(&body)?;
    println!("{:?}", data.first());
    Ok(())
}

Sources and methodology

The dataset is derived from the OpenFlights airlines database, a community-maintained open data project covering commercial and general aviation carriers worldwide. The source file is a headerless CSV with fields: id, name, alias, iata, icao, callsign, country, active.

Only airlines that OpenFlights marks as active (active = Y) and that have a well-formed IATA designator (2 alphanumeric characters) or ICAO designator (3 letters) are included; 54 user-submitted “virtual airline” entries with invalid designators (such as 12/N12 or ICAO codes containing digits) were removed in the October 2026 review. Placeholder values such as \N, -, and N/A are normalised to null. The result is 1,189 carriers including major commercial airlines, regional operators, and charter carriers.

Note that the OpenFlights airline data is a community snapshot that has not been substantially updated since the late 2010s, so it lags real-world changes such as airline mergers, rebranding, suspensions and new carriers. As of October 2026 we have set active: false on about 110 entries for well-known carriers that have ceased operating or been merged away (for example Air Berlin, Alitalia, Jet Airways, Thomas Cook Airlines, Flybe, Jetstar Asia), but other entries flagged true may also be defunct, and IATA codes of defunct carriers are often reassigned (e.g. AZ is now used by ITA Airways). For authoritative current data consult IATA or ICAO official registries.

This dataset is derived from the OpenFlights airline database, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; attribute OpenFlights when you use it, and share derived databases under the same licence.

Versioning

URLs under /v1/ are stable: field names and types will not change in a way that breaks consumers. Values can be corrected or records added when the upstream source changes; schema-incompatible updates ship under a new version path. See the airlines changelog for this dataset's history.

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