The chore of this article will focus on how to monitor flights with an API. We will focus on GoFirst, an important Indian airline.
GoFirst Flights
Go First, formerly known as GoAir, is an Indian low-cost carrier based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The Wadia Group, an Indian commercial giant, owns it. It was India’s fifth-largest airline in October 2017, with an 8.4% passenger market share. As you can see, this is a big airline in terms of its impact in India.
Therefore, if you own or work at a company whose one of its focal point is monitoring flights, it wouldn’t be a surprise that GoFirst is on your radar. This is not an easy task to carry out which is why I recommend Flight data APIs to provide the information about the flights.
In this particular job and field, being updated is one of the most important things. At the end of the day if you are monitoring flights you have to get real-time information/ live flight status. Hence, you must incorporate APIs that are fast, powerful, and accurate. For this I recommend Flightlabs.
Flightlabs
Flightlabs is an API that allows you to search for flights, airports, and airlines from all over the world. This API provides you with different types of data such as the current flight status (canceled, active, delayed, incident). It also allows you to search for flights on a certain date or filter by different parameters such as airports, airlines, IATA code, ICAO code, and flight number.
Flightlabs has worldwide coverage, so you don’t have to worry about not being able to find the airport and destination of your interest. Evidently, GoFirst is no exception. This flight data API guarantees that you will be able to track almost any flight on the globe!
Due to its wide compatibility with all major programming languages, including PHP, Python, Node.js, jQuery, Go, and Ruby. FlightLabs is easy to integrate into nearly any app or platform. For maximum utility in any use case, requests return JSON, XML, or any geocode-specific GeoJSON files. The API is incredibly fast, typically responding to requests in 10 to 100 milliseconds.
More of Flightlabs Features
-256-bit HTTPS Encrypt: There’s a straightforward approach to changing your API request. Simply change HTTP with HTTPS in the base API URL, such as https://api.goflightlabs.com. Your communication with Flightlabs‘ server will then be encased in unbreakable 256-bit SSL encryption, which is the industry standard for a reason.
-JSONP Callbacks: Cross-domain rules can make it difficult to receive a response to your API request. Invoking JSONP callbacks will get around this problem by asking for an external script. In layman’s words, this is a tool you can use to get over hurdles that could stymie data transfer.
-Autocomplete: This function is evoked by adding the “search” parameter to your request. Simply put, if you don’t know the exact term for a specific aircraft, airport, or anything else, you can ask Flightlabs and the Application Programming Interface will help you find what you are looking for. I know, it is incredible!
Now you are ready to monitor the flights of GoFirst with no restrictions! Good luck and see how easy and rich Flightlabs is.