http://www.theairdb.com: the new aviation resource

vitoque · Post by **vitoque** » 29 Mar 2007, 16:29

Hello All,
this is my first post, I hope I'm not going OT here.

I just put on-line my website, after a lot of research and corner work. The best way to describe it would be a World Wide database for Airlines, Airports & Routes:

http://www.theairdb.com

It has a comprehensive page for each airline with detailed information about destinations together with a Map. For example Ryanair:

http://www.theairdb.com/airline/FR.html

Or per each airport, for example Amsterdam:

http://www.theairdb.com/airport/AMS.html

or New York JFK:

http://www.theairdb.com/airport/JFK.html

Another report is the one based on countries. For example, all the UK airports of a country on the map:

http://www.theairdb.com/country/GBR.html

The strongest point of the project is its high frequency news support for new routes. The DB keeps his Routes archive up to date every 5 minutes so it is able to generate a news for each route an airline make available on its booking engine:

http://www.theairdb.com/sub/News.html

I'm starting adding the routes of other airlines, so far the one I monitor the routes are the one in bold in this page. I'm open to suggestion, feedback, etc from who at the end is the target of this project: the people like me that are passionate about aviation: you.

Thanks and sorry for the semi OT

Vito

Gate-A1 · Post by **Gate-A1** » 29 Mar 2007, 19:41

That really a good job that you achieved with this website.

I have only one question about it. The airports are divided as Airport (red baloon) and Other airports (Yellow baloon) What is the distiction between both types?

jan_olieslagers · Post by **jan_olieslagers** » 29 Mar 2007, 20:07

hm. some details remain to be settled, for one example check the location of

http://www.theairdb.com/airport/DUD.html

, I do not believe NZ territory expands to the Aloetian (sp?) islands...

that being said, your efforts for documenting air travel are much appreciated!

vitoque · Post by **vitoque** » 30 Mar 2007, 00:28

Gate-A1 wrote:That really a good job that you achieved with this website.

I have only one question about it. The airports are divided as Airport (red baloon) and Other airports (Yellow baloon) What is the distiction between both types?

Good point.

This is not a distinction that I do, but that IATA does. IATA divides its airport in:

code2 = Airports
code4 = Heliports
code5 = Bus Services
code6 = Rail Station
code8 = Heliports (but no idea which difference with code4)
code9 = Airports, again

I've been asking in forum of experts what was the meaning of this code9 airports, but after I gave up, and just labeled them as "Other airports" as they were mostly obviously smaller than the airport tagged with code2.

If anybody can spread some light I would be more than happy to set a better description for those

vitoque · Post by **vitoque** » 30 Mar 2007, 00:32

jan_olieslagers wrote:hm. some details remain to be settled, for one example check the location of
http://www.theairdb.com/airport/DUD.html
, I do not believe NZ territory expands to the Aloetian (sp?) islands...

that being said, your efforts for documenting air travel are much appreciated!

Many details need to be...

Indeed I've tryed to put all the airport in location that are correct but as tehre are more than 10000 in the DB it is somehow difficult, especially for airport that are outside the Europe (i.e. that I don't know much about).

If any knows the location of an aiport not correctly reported and pass it, I'm more than welcome to modify it.

In a later future the website should be more iteractive with a way for user to edit content.

Also I plan to have RSS feed and personalized alert based on preference ("gimme news for any of these: airport=BRU, country = "BE", airline = "VLM")