OpenFlights, the free flight logging/mapping/stats tool I announced a while back, has completed its closed beta stage and is now open to the public:

http://www.openflights.org

And it even works on Internet Explorer and Safari now. Brief recap of what it's all about:

• OpenFlights has a way cool map. You can pan, zoom, select, scroll and explore all you like!
• OpenFlights is user-friendly and efficient. Everything's on the same page!
• OpenFlights works in realtime. Make any change, and you'll see it right then and there.
• OpenFlights supports "trips". You can join up any flights together into a trip, which you can then display on its own page and even share with friends.
• OpenFlights is free, period. No need to pay for "premium" access, although heavy users may be asked to chip to pay for the upkeep.
• OpenFlights is free in spirit. No lock-in: importing your data and export copies for safekeeping is easy.
• OpenFlights is free software. All our source code and (public) data is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License and can be downloaded from SourceForge, so you can set up your own copy or just use the bits you like.

While all core features are there, the site is still being actively developed further, so any feedback and suggestions are more than welcome. Features in the immediate pipeline include importing and exporting, tools for quickly entering many flights and lots more graphical razzmatazz.

Special thanks to FTers FCYTravis, KiwiFlyer, marc, sbm12 and trsqr for taking the time to shake out the bugs and the worst interface warts!

So is it an alternative to flightmemory? Or a graphical version of BA97?

At first glance it seems to be an alternative to Flightmemory/Flugstatistik. Which raises the question - what has it got to make it worth the effort of transferring data over from Flightmemory? Just zooming?

PS I hate the phrase 'way cool map'. Sound like somebody trying too hard to sound hip and cool. YMMV!

Wow! Quite a response from FT, over 1000 new flights have been added in the last 24 hours. ^

If the bulleted list above isn't enough for you, here's a partial list of existing features unique to OpenFlights:

• Easier input. Return flights and copies of flights can be both generated with a click of a button. You can even click on any two airports on the map to add a flight between them.
• Per-airline maps and stats. Choose an airline in the filter, and you can see that airline's flights, your top airports and routes on that airline, total mileage flown on it, etc.
• Trips. You can select any flights to form a "trip", for which you can calculate stats separately and which can be shared on its own. Perfect for trip reports! (Which is why I created it ) Example: http://openflights.org/trip/3
• Privacy control. You can choose to share nothing at all, your map and stats, or everything... and not just for all your flights, but individually for each trip as well.

But most importantly, it's open source and being actively developed, so if there's something you'd like to see, you can suggest it, or even plunge forward and implement it yourself.

Also, if you're planning to migrate your flights from Flightmemory, I suggest you hold on for a while: I'm currently working on an import feature that will let you copy flights more or less automatically.

lets give it a try

Can I import from FM, and easily import later flights as not to get duplicates? I'd like to continue using both.

I like the multi-colored airports (even though the icons are a bit cluttering I guess...) and different width of frequent flight paths... Any reason for using an extra-old map of Poland (the voivodeships changed like 10 years ago)?

Looks great so far! Keep up the good work.

Custom date ranges (or at least yearly reports) would be nice as well..

probably not for long, but if you filter out JetBlue most of those flights are mine.... and I don't even fly that much!

--Russ

Wow, just realized that when you share the flights with others (the middle "privacy" choice) everyone can see your notes for the flights....

Not so -- it's just that if you look at your own public map (/user/tamcap) while still logged in as you, it knows you're you and lets you see everything. If you log out and try again, or if somebody else looks at your map, they can only see what you let them see. But yes, this is a little confusing, and I'll see if I can fix it.

And the rest:

• The maps and any Polish voivodships within them are from Metacarta, not me. Switch to the purely geographic NASA map (top right "+" button) if you don't like 'em
• Yearly/custom date range filters are Coming Soon(tm).
• True to the name, the "Recently added flights" map you see when not logged in shows recently added flights. It's updated daily, so while you may see your flights today, they probably won't be around tomorrow anymore...

Yeah, this tool doesnt replace FM, but compliments it nicely

phew. I m finished putting flights in, it was a much easier process than FM,
by year statistics would be nice, I love the zooming and the by airline stats.

Perhaps expanding the lists beyond top 10?

I can't signup. The "Sign up" button doesn't seem to do anything. Evidently some of you have gotten it done. Any trick?

I suspect that your pop-up blocker is being too enthusiastic? Please add "openflights.org" to the list of allowed sites and try again.

I think that about 500 of those were mine. Actually I just looked and most of the 131 EWR flights actually are mine (http://openflights.org/user/sbm12).
I am particularly enjoying this feature, including the ability to link out from the trip to a different website. RTW trips are particularly fun to do this way (http://openflights.org/trip/13). One interesting effect of the "Trips" feature is that it seems that you can actually see all the trips/airlines for the user in question. If you click on the link above and then go to the right column in the filters area you'll see the four different trips I have in the system and all the airlines I have. Dunno if that is on purpose or not.

DOH! I just manually copied over my FM. On the plus side, I did get to add a few new airports to the system.

I don't think that either this or FM are 100% solutions. There are parts of both I like.