Where can I get a reliable and a updated Airport API or Airport Database, and I also want to know the charges for the API?

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Kindly guide me where can I get a reliable and updated airport Master API. The airport API should have all the information about all the airports in the world and I also want to know how much do they charge for the API.

what does how would be the plans and pricing for the Airport master mean? — Federico, Sep 05 '14 at 08:53
I just want to know where can i get the airport API and how much does it costs. — Nivin Abraham, Sep 05 '14 at 09:27
I've voted to reopen this question. It's clear what the person is asking for, the fact that it's out of his price range doesn't mean the question can't help future visitors. — Steve V., Sep 06 '14 at 05:28
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because resource location is specifically off-topic defined in the help center. — Gerry, Nov 13 '19 at 13:27
@gerry do you think it would be better suited in opendata.SE — Manu H, Nov 13 '19 at 15:47

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 17 '20 at 08:28

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Location Identifiers & Airline Designators data files available with daily updates

The perfect solution to feeding your coding database. These files (more information in right hand column) are available as a 12 month subscription or a one-time web download. For the subscription, you will be granted access to the password protected extranet site upon purchase where you can retrieve the data files update daily.

http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/coding.aspx

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Thanks for the information RedGrittyBrick, but the price for the data is to high are there any other sites where i could get the data at a lower cost.Since we are a startup company we cant afford such high price. – Nivin Abraham Sep 05 '14 at 12:06
@NivinAbraham If you can't afford IATA, check out ourairports.org. Also see http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2644/can-two-airports-have-a-different-icao-code-but-share-the-same-iata-code – Danny Beckett Sep 06 '14 at 14:05
Thanks a lot Danny Bekett, the URL you provided was very helpful.The data are very accurate and the also it is up to date. – Nivin Abraham Sep 08 '14 at 05:42

Zeus · Answer 2 · 2019-11-13T00:21:30.750

Navigraph and Aerosoft provide relatively cheap (~€25/yr) subscription to regular AIRAC updates for the simulation community. The databases include all the airport information that is required for FMS (navigation).

In both cases, the databases are plain-text files which are rather trivial to parse without any special API. For example:

A,YMML,MELBOURNE INTL,-37.673333,144.843333,434,10000,11000,11900,0
R,09,83,7500,148,0,0.000,0,-37.660756,144.822247,395,3.00,50,1,0
R,16,161,11998,197,1,109.700,160,-37.653192,144.834911,432,3.00,50,1,0
R,27,263,7500,148,1,109.300,263,-37.662261,144.848089,407,3.00,50,1,0
R,34,341,11998,197,0,0.000,0,-37.685789,144.840994,330,3.00,50,1,0

IMS,YMML ILS/CAT III,109.700,0,1,195,-37.656667,144.833611,434,YM,0,0,11.5,0.0
IMW,YMML ILS/CAT I,109.300,0,0,195,-37.660000,144.810000,434,YM,0,0,0.0,0.0

One can get a free sample of the whole database (at some point in the past) with a demo version of some software packages that use such database; for example, this one.

Where can I get a reliable and a updated Airport API or Airport Database, and I also want to know the charges for the API?

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