Originally Posted by wannaflyaway

I have been trying to figure out whether there is a tool or method to search for direct flights in a much broader and more flexible way than typical flight search engines allow.

What I am looking for is something like this: the ability to input one or multiple origin airports, and then retrieve all direct flights to a country or even a list of countries. Ideally, this could be filtered for a specific date, but even having a general overview of direct routes would already be very helpful.

To give a bit of context, I fly standby, on intercontinental routes, for example between the US and Europe. In those situations, my main goal is not a specific city, but rather getting onto any flight that gets me across the ocean. Once I arrive, it is usually much easier for me to connect within the region to my final destination.

Because of that, I would love to explore a wider range of options, understand which airlines operate direct routes between certain regions, and generally have a more complete picture of available connections.

So my question to the community is: does such a tool or website exist? And if not, is there a way to build something similar using more advanced approaches, for example with Python or available aviation data sources?

Any ideas, tools, or workflows you can share would be greatly appreciated.