{"id":1738990,"date":"2021-05-15T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1016567-4521551.cloudwaysapps.com\/?post_type=station&p=1738990"},"modified":"2021-05-15T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:28:00","slug":"how-to-calculate-flight-delays-with-an-api-2","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/plato-data\/how-to-calculate-flight-delays-with-an-api-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Calculate Flight Delays with an API"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this article, we will explain \u201cHow to Calculate Flight Delays with an API\u201d which is a subject that triggers the interest of flight compensation claim agencies, flight insurance companies, airlines, travel agencies among many others in the aviation sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flight delays are subject to compensation on behalf of passengers. Considering there are literally thousands of flights that delay every day by tens of different airlines, flight delay data is hard to collect and maintain on your own. What we offer is the Aviation Edge Flight Delay API which collects, aggregates, and stores flight delay data for you, and returns you whenever you request, based on the parameters you specify.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Flight Delay API \u2013 How Does It Work Exactly?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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The Flight Delay API basically works as a historical flight schedule API. It stores the real-time airport schedule data globally and expands every day so that you can view these as historical data later on, whenever you want. How to calculate flight delays with an API depends on the ability of the data to return delay data in a way that you can correspond this to other details of the flight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The details for each flight in the response include:<\/p>\n