Data sources
Where the data on this site comes from, how often it is refreshed, and what we generate editorially.
Primary airport data
Source: OpenFlights airports.dat (raw.githubusercontent.com/jpatokal/openflights)
Airport metadata — IATA codes, ICAO codes, names, cities, latitude and longitude, and time zones — is loaded from the OpenFlights airports.dat file maintained on GitHub. OpenFlights has been an open-data reference for the aviation community for over a decade and remains the most accessible single source for global airport metadata.
The dataset is fetched at build time by our seed script and persisted as JSON on disk. Page templates read this file at request time and render server-side HTML — there is no client-side rendering and no live API call from a browser.
Editorial content
FlightPath Map lists airport identifiers, location and time zone from the OpenFlights dataset. Templated parking, hotel, terminal and transport pages were removed on 2026-09-12 because they had no source.
What we do not store
Flight Path Map does not store live flight status, gate assignments, or TSA wait times. For live operational data, the operating airline's app and the airport's official website are the most reliable sources.
Refresh policy
The OpenFlights metadata is re-fetched whenever we update the site. Last data refresh: 2026-05-03.