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Old Mar 18, 2026 | 9:35 am
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Originally Posted by Skytrace
Gemini is, so far, the cheapest API I've found. The ones designed specifically for aviation are much more accurate, but they're also much more expensive. If I have 20 users, each with 50 flights, I'm already starting to pay, whereas with Gemini, I can cover more than 2,500 flights.
But can you tell me what was inaccurate?
After looking closer:

Time conversion mostly, it giving me times in UTC which make no sense for flights.

Logged AY42 (ICN-HEL), says it's 01:00 to 08:40 when it's 21:00 to 05:40
Various hour skews on intereuropean

Previous flights are probably somewhat close to real times than the theoritical
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