Audience
Developers, travel apps, airport transfer services, hotels and businesses that need real-time flight status updates.
About FlightByte
FlightByte is a hosted flight-status API for developers building travel apps, airport-transfer and hotel services. Look up a flight by carrier, number, and date for its status, gates, terminals, scheduled and actual times, aircraft, baggage belts, and codeshares. Subscribe up to 90 days ahead to receive signed webhooks for 23 typed changes, including delays, gate changes, departures, arrivals, cancellations, and baggage updates. HMAC-SHA256 signatures, stable event IDs for deduplication, up to eight retries with backoff, delivery logs, and signed test events support webhook handling. Adaptive polling tightens from every 12 hours a week out to every three minutes near departure. Ambiguous flight numbers return all legs instead of guessing. FlightByte includes OpenAPI documentation, a live API playground, an MCP server, and an n8n workflow template. The free tier includes three watched flights per month; paid plans start at $9/month for 100 watched flights and 4,000 lookups.
