Heathrow Flight Board Scraper

Heathrow Flight Board Scraper exports the full-day departures and arrivals board from the official London Heathrow (LHR) website. Pick a date, choose departures, arrivals, or both, and download every scheduled movement with airline, terminal, gate, and live status — no login and no API key.

Run it on the Apify platform to schedule daily board snapshots, export JSON/CSV/Excel, monitor delays, and integrate flight rows via API.

What can Heathrow Flight Board Scraper do?

• Full-day boards — Export every departure or arrival listed for a calendar day at Heathrow.
• Live status — Capture On Time, Delayed, Cancelled, Departed, Landed, and other statuses as shown on the official board.
• Revised times — Get both scheduled and revised departure/arrival times when the airport publishes updates.
• Gate and terminal — Pull terminal and gate assignments for pickup planning and airport operations tools.
• Departures, arrivals, or both — Run one direction or scrape both boards in a single Actor run.
• Date selection — Target today or any future/past date the airport board still lists (Europe/London local date).
• Disruption filter — Optionally export only Delayed or Cancelled flights.
• Codeshare deduplication — Optionally collapse duplicate codeshare rows that share the same time, route, terminal, and gate.
• No-code export — Download JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the dataset tab, or call the Actor via API.
• Apify platform — Schedule hourly runs, set webhooks on delayed flights, and keep a historical archive of board snapshots.

Why scrape the Heathrow airport flight board?

• Pickup and meeting tools — Show travelers the latest gate, terminal, and revised time for the flight they are meeting.
• On-time performance analytics — Build OTP dashboards from official airport status snapshots over time.
• Travel apps — Enrich itinerary screens with live airport-board data without negotiating airline feeds.
• Operations monitoring — Track cancellation and delay spikes across a full day of LHR movements.
• Competitive intelligence — Compare airline punctuality on specific routes using public board data.
• Historical archives — Schedule daily runs to build a time series of how a flight's status evolved.

What data can you extract from the Heathrow flight board?

Field	Description
airport	Airport IATA code (LHR)
direction	departures or arrivals
localDate	Board date in Europe/London (YYYY-MM-DD)
timeScheduled	Scheduled local time as shown on the board
timeRevised	Revised local time when published; null if unchanged
airlineCode	IATA airline code
airlineName	Marketing airline name
flightNumber	Flight number
counterpartAirport	Destination IATA (departures) or origin IATA (arrivals)
counterpartName	Destination or origin city/name
terminal	Terminal identifier
gate	Gate assignment; null when not published
status	Board status (e.g. On time, Delayed, Cancelled, Landed)
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp when the row was collected

How to scrape Heathrow airport departures and arrivals

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Choose Direction — departures, arrivals, or both.
3. Optionally set Date (YYYY-MM-DD in London local time); leave blank for today.
4. Set Max Items per Direction — use a high number (e.g. 3000) for a full-day export, or keep the default 5 for a quick test.
5. Run the Actor and download results from the Dataset tab.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
direction	string	departures	departures, arrivals, or both
date	string	today (London)	Local board date YYYY-MM-DD
maxItems	integer	5	Max rows per direction
onlyDisrupted	boolean	false	Export only Delayed or Cancelled rows
deduplicateCodeshares	boolean	false	Dedupe codeshare rows by time, route, terminal, and gate
proxyConfiguration	object	no proxy	Optional Apify Proxy settings

Output

Each dataset row is one flight movement on the official airport board:

{
  "airport": "LHR",
  "direction": "departures",
  "localDate": "2026-09-09",
  "timeScheduled": "06:00",
  "timeRevised": null,
  "airlineCode": "BA",
  "airlineName": "British Airways",
  "flightNumber": 123,
  "counterpartAirport": "JFK",
  "counterpartName": "New York JFK",
  "terminal": "5",
  "gate": "A10",
  "status": "On time",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per flight row exported to the dataset. Status, gate, and terminal data are included with each row — there is no separate status charge.

FAQ

How many flights does Heathrow publish per day?
A typical day lists roughly 2,600+ departures and a similar volume of arrivals. Set maxItems high enough to capture the full board, or schedule daily runs and store snapshots over time.

Does this scrape airline websites?
No. Data comes from the official Heathrow airport flight board — the same public board travelers see on heathrow.com.

Are codeshares deduplicated?
By default, each marketing flight listed on the board is exported as its own row. Enable Deduplicate Codeshares to keep one row per scheduled movement (same time, route, terminal, and gate).

Do I need a proxy?
No. The official board is reachable with direct HTTP requests; proxy defaults to off.

Integrations

Export dataset items via the Apify API, connect webhooks for automated alerts, or schedule recurring runs to build a historical flight-board archive.

Image Credit

Image credit: heathrow.com