Originally Posted by
TravelBySuitcases
Very interesting tool, i'm actually jut looking for the data (by typing a flight number, fetching details like source, destination, equipment and such. We would need the data to be 'recent'. Do you know if an API or other form of data provider that provides this 'real time'?
I am not aware of any publicly available API.
Commercial providers of airline schedules include
OAG and
Innovata. Maybe you can inquire them.
For actual flight times, check out flightstats.com or flightaware.com. Maybe they offer a data API, you'll have to contact them for that.
If you are looking for free data, Star Alliance and OneWorld publish a timetable in the PDF format. It can be downloaded from alliance websites, and you can extract the data in text format using Copy&Paste.