AirLabs Data API

Name: AirLabs Data API
Brand: AirLabs Data API
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For Agents

Look up live flights, airport and airline reference data, schedules, delays, and routes from the AirLabs aviation database.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the AirLabs Data API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the AirLabs Data API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with AirLabs Data API.

Pull real-time flight positions and tracking data via /flights

Fetch flight-level details (status, schedule, aircraft) via /flight

Look up airport, airline, city, country, and aircraft fleet reference data

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use AirLabs Data API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Live Flight Tracking Dashboard

Power a flight tracking dashboard with live aircraft positions and per-flight detail. GET /flights returns the active aircraft set with bounding-box and airline filters, and GET /flight returns full status, route, and aircraft information for a specific flight identifier.

Fetch all flights operating between LHR and JFK right now, then for each flight return its current altitude, speed, and estimated arrival time

Airport and Schedule Reference

Build a travel-planning experience that lets users search airports, view schedules, and check delays. /suggest powers airport autocomplete, /schedules returns scheduled departures and arrivals filtered by airport, and /delays surfaces problem flights for an airport on a given day.

Search airports matching 'San Francisco', then list scheduled departures from SFO for the next 6 hours along with any current delays

Flight Status Alerts

Notify users when a tracked flight's status changes. POST /alert registers an alert against a flight identifier and contact channel, and the alerting service pushes an update when the flight is delayed, cancelled, or arrives.

Create a flight alert for flight UA1234 on 2026-06-15 with email recipient ops@example.com so any delay or gate change triggers a notification

AI Agent Travel Concierge

An agent embedded in a travel concierge product can pull live flight status, suggest airports, and trigger alerts on the user's behalf - all through Jentic. The api_key query parameter stays in the vault and only scoped operations are exposed.

Search Jentic for 'get flight status', load the GET /flight schema, and return current status for flight LH404 including any delay reason

Key Endpoints

17 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for airlabs data api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/flights

Real-time flight positions

GET

/flight

Detailed information for a specific flight

GET

/schedules

Scheduled flights for an airport or airline

GET

/delays

Currently delayed flights

GET

/airports

Airport reference database

GET

/airlines

Airline reference database

GET

/nearby

Find airports near a geographic point

POST

/alert

Create a flight status alert

GET

/flights

Real-time flight positions

GET

/flight

Detailed information for a specific flight

GET

/schedules

Scheduled flights for an airport or airline

GET

/delays

Currently delayed flights

GET

/airports

Airport reference database

GET

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your AirLabs api_key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get flight status', and Jentic returns the matching AirLabs operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

Time to first call

FAQs

Specific to using AirLabs Data API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for AirLabs Data API?

AirLabs does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call AirLabs Data API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

What authentication does the AirLabs Data API use?

AirLabs uses an API key passed as the api_key query parameter on every request. Jentic stores the key encrypted in the vault and appends it at call time, so the raw key is never visible to the agent.

Can I get the live position of all flights with the AirLabs API?

Yes. GET /flights returns active flights with position, altitude, and speed; the response can be filtered by bounding box, airline, or aircraft type to keep payload sizes manageable.

What are the rate limits for the AirLabs Data API?

Rate limits are tied to the AirLabs subscription plan rather than declared in the spec. For high-frequency tracking, throttle /flights polling to once every 30-60 seconds and use /flight for on-demand detail rather than per-second polling.

How do I look up airport information with the AirLabs API through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, search Jentic for 'airlabs airport lookup', load the schema for GET /airports, then execute with the IATA or ICAO code. Jentic appends the api_key automatically.

Can I create alerts for flight delays via the AirLabs API?

Yes. POST /alert registers an alert tied to a flight identifier and contact channel; AirLabs notifies the recipient when the flight's status changes.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the AirLabs Data API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which AirLabs operations and credentials the agent can use. Since AirLabs is read-only aviation data driven by query-parameter filters, you can scope the agent to just the operations it needs, such as GET /flights or GET /schedules, and leave out POST /alert if it should not create flight alerts. The api_key is injected by your own instance at call time, so the agent only ever reaches the operations you expose.