flight-tables 1.0

Save (Heathrow) Airport Arrivals and Departures to CSV.

Flight Tables: Arrivals and Departures Parsing Toolkit

What is It?

Flight Tables lets you save public Arrivals and Departures infomation to a standardised CSV file.

Current version is for Heathrow Airport.

Installation

$ pip install flight_tables

Command Line Execution

Save yesterday's Arrivals and Departures to CSV:

python -m flight_tables.main

If you want to specify a date, add "yyyy-mm-dd" to the command. It will only work for the past few days, where data is still available from the airport API.

Script Execution

Run the script below, but replace "yyyy-mm-dd" with the date you want. It will only work for the past few days, where data is still available from the airport API.

from flight_tables.flight_tables import FlightTables

# Save Arrivals CSV
FlightTables.arrivals_csv("yyyy-mm-dd")

# Save Departures CSV
FlightTables.departures_csv("yyyy-mm-dd")

CSV Output Format

The output is a csv with these columns:

flight_id	origin	destination	status	scheduled_datetime	actual_datetime	delay_mins	code_share
BA028	HKG	LHR	Landed	03/04/2020 05:30	03/04/2020 05:39	9	No
VA5341	HKG	LHR	Landed	03/04/2020 05:30	03/04/2020 05:29	-1	Alt-Code
BA064	NBO	LHR	Cancelled	03/04/2020 06:20			Main-Code
...

Output is saved to your working directory.

Test Suite

Documentation here

Background:

The initial motivation was to analyse flight punctuality. When you google for this most results are not detailed enough to compare one flight ID against another.