theAirDB, the global aviation database with integrated maps!

[vitoque]

Dear Aviation friends,
I just want to introduce 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 London Heathrow:

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

or New York JFK:

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

Another report is the one based on countries. For example, all the British airportson 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

Also all the news are displayed in a graphical way:




Since few day, there are also two big news on theairdb, filtered RSS feed and a cool Google gadget!

  1) News filtered for  country, airport, airline.

On top of the standard RSS feed (http://www.theairdb.com/rss/theairdb.rss), we are now proud to announce the availability of filtered feeds for country, airport, airline.

- Airports

The specific address for an airport news feed is:

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airport_<3 LETTERS IATA CODE, UPPER CASE>.rss

So, for example the feed for the Gatwick news is

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airport_LGW.rss

or Amsterdam, New Castle

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airport_AMS.rss
http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airport_NCL.rss


- Countries

The specific news for a country (all the airports in a country ) is

http://www.theairdb.com//rss/country_<2 LETTERS COUNTRY CODE, UPPER CASE>.rss

So foe example United Kingdom and the Netherlands:

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/country_GB.rss 
http://www.theairdb.com//rss/country_NL.rss 

- Airlines

The rss feed for airlines is only available for airlines that are currently active in our DB (the ones in bold in http://www.theairdb.com/sub/Airlines.html)

The specific news for an airline is more tricky:

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airline_<TheairDBAirlineCode-Lowcase>.rss

TheairDBAirlineCode is for all the airlines made of one word(Ryanair,Easyjet, etc), just their low case name (ryanair, easyjet). For airlines names made of few words you will substitute the dash to the space (air-berlin,atlantic-airways, etc). To find the name, just go to theAirDb page and go to the airline you wnat page check the address and take the .html off. For example theairdb.com/airline/aegean-airlines.html the airline code is "aegean-airlines" without quotes. Some examples:

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airline_ryanair.rss
http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airline_easyjet.rss
http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airline_alpi-eagles.rss
 
  2) Google Gadget

This is a very cool gadget that you can add to your iGoogle page or to your website/blog. It reports all the news in gadgetized way for your airport, airline or country.
You can check the the HTML code out (or have a preview) at:

theAirDB Gadget

Or you can add to your iGoogle, using:

Add to iGoogle

When in your page it will look like this (example filtered for Stansted news):



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.

Vito

[casper]

Hi Vito
and welcome to the forum. What can I say about your site? Only wow, fantastic. How long has it taken you to get this up and running? I don't think I've seen as much comprehesive coverage of airline activities done in such a unique way before.

It's going to take me days to go though it

Well done.

[vitoque]

I work on it on the weekends and on the evening. I deal with something totally different for work, but I have the passion, as you guys, for aviation, planes and everything that stays in the sky.

Nice forum BTW, I found a lot of interesting info here!

V>

[casper]

Nice forum BTW, I found a lot of interesting info here!

Many thanks It's not used as much as I'd like it to butmaybe one day

I know what you mean about the passion. I only have to hear an aircraft go over my house and I'm looking to see what it is. I live about 20 miles from Belfast International Airport, but it lies under the flight path