Airlabs
Aviation data REST API providing real-time flight status, schedules, routes, airports, airlines, aircraft data, and delays from 250+ airlines and 3,500+ airports worldwide. Built by Data Products LTD, the platform covers approximately 7,300 active flights at any given time.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Airlabs the way a machine reads it — 42 machine-readable artifacts across 23 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Airlabs scores 51.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Airlabs
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Airlabs. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 23
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Airlabs Real-Time Flights API
Track live aircraft positions worldwide with latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, direction, and flight identifiers. Supports filtering by bounding box, airline, airport, aircr...
Airlabs Airport Schedules API
Retrieve departure and arrival schedules for any airport including flight status, terminal and gate information, estimated and actual times, and delay information. Free tier lim...
Airlabs Flight Information API
Look up detailed information for a specific flight by IATA or ICAO code, combining schedule data, real-time position, and aircraft specifications into a single response for the ...
Airlabs Flight Delays API
Query flights exceeding a specified delay threshold (minimum 30 minutes) filtered by departure or arrival direction, designed for airport transfer services and flight delay comp...
Airlabs Airports Database API
Access a comprehensive global airport database with IATA and ICAO codes, coordinates, elevation, runway count, timezone, city and country data, and social media profiles. Filter...
Airlabs Airlines Database API
Look up airline information including IATA and ICAO codes, callsign, country, fleet size, average fleet age, safety data including accidents and crashes over the past 5 years, a...
Airlabs Routes Database API
Query airline routes between airports with departure and arrival times in local and UTC, operating days of week, terminal information, flight duration, and the last aircraft typ...
Airlabs Aircraft Fleet Database API
Access global aircraft fleet data with registration numbers, ICAO hex codes, manufacturer serial numbers, aircraft type, engine count and type, build year, age, and current airl...
Airlabs Cities Database API
Retrieve city data including IATA city codes, coordinates, country, timezone, population, and multilingual names. Enables destination mapping and grouping airports into city clu...
Airlabs NearBy Airports API
Find airports and cities closest to given latitude and longitude coordinates within a specified kilometer radius, sorted by distance. Used for nearest-airport lookup and smart a...
Airlabs Name Suggestion API
Autocomplete airport, city, and country search queries in any language and spelling variant. Returns matched airports, cities, and countries with IATA codes, coordinates, timezo...
Airlabs Airlines API
Airline reference data
Airlabs Airports API
Airport reference data
Airlabs Alert API
Flight monitoring
Airlabs Cities API
City reference data
Airlabs Delays API
Currently delayed flights
Airlabs Fleets API
Aircraft fleet records
Airlabs Flight API
Single flight information
Airlabs Flights API
Real-time flight positions
Airlabs Nearby API
Geographic airport lookup
Airlabs Routes API
Route reference data
Airlabs Schedules API
Airport departures and arrivals
Airlabs Suggest API
Autocomplete and search
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Plans
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
context Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Airlabs API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 6
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Examples 5
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Airlines Response
EXAMPLEAirports Response
EXAMPLEFlights Response
EXAMPLENearby Response
EXAMPLESchedules Response
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Airlabs — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
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