I'm a software engineer and have been recently stuck on the problem of trying to predict what flights I might get upgrades on. The easiest way to solve this problem was to start collecting flight load data (available/sold seats per cabin/plane), and I've somehow been rather successful at scraping this data from a major legacy carrier.

Now I have a ton of data that I don't fully know what to do with. I'm hesitant to link this to me because of any possible legal implications of the massive amount of scraping I'm doing; I'm pulling flight data from tens of thousands of flights every hour, including available seats in every cabin with (what seems) a high degree of accuracy. Over time, this will generate a great time-series dataset to track how fast every flight sells.

I imagine there are some pretty interesting applications in terms of finding easy upgrade availability but I'm curious what else I can do with this data. Would other airlines buy it? How does one even sell this? Would others want me to release it?

As Google is doing the same thing, I'm pretty sure there's already a market (and customers) for this stuff IMO. (Hope you're rotating thru multiple IPs!)

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