airline-codes

Airline Codes

Airline codes (IATA) and information pulled from OpenFlights.org

Install

npm install airline-codes

Usage

The list of airline codes is wrapped in a Backbone Collection, so have access to all normal collection methods like findWhere, at, and sort.

var airlines = require('airline-codes');

console.log(airlines.findWhere({ iata: 'WS' }).get('name'));
//=> Westjet

If you'd like only the JSON list of airline codes, you can use either the Backbone Collection's toJSON method or import the json list directly:

require('airline-codes').toJSON();
require('airline-codes/airlines.json');

Update the list of Airline Codes

Data is synced automatically every week from jpatokal/openflights. To update manually:

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpatokal/openflights/master/data/airlines.dat
$ node normalize.js   # apply local corrections (country names, etc.)
$ node convert.js     # regenerate airlines.json from airlines.dat

Adding corrections

Upstream data uses different conventions for some country names and contains occasional data quality issues. normalize.js maintains a COUNTRY_CORRECTIONS map that is applied automatically after every upstream fetch. To add a new correction, edit the map in normalize.js:

var COUNTRY_CORRECTIONS = {
  'Macao': 'Macau',
  'Republic of Korea': 'South Korea',
  // add new entries here ...
};

After editing, re-run the pipeline above to apply the change.

Thanks

• Andrew Kennedy
• Ram Nadella
• Jani Patokallio