Air Canada Flight Scraper ✈️ — cash fares, fare families across cabins, and a dated low-fare calendar

Air Canada Flight Scraper — Scrapes Air Canada flight search with cash fares and fare families across cabins, a dated low-fare calendar, an optional seat layout and flight status, straight from the Air Canada mobile API. Read-only public travel data. It reads Air Canada's own API directly, so it's fast, reliable and complete — no flaky HTML parsing, no headless browser. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or an API.

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Two modes

schedules (default) — search flights for a route and date: schedules, cash fares and fare families across cabins, plus the optional low-fare calendar and seat layout.

flightStatus — live operational status, one record per flight segment: on-time/delayed status, scheduled and estimated departure/arrival times, gate, terminal and aircraft type. Set origin + destination + departureDate for every flight on that route/date, or set flightNumber (e.g. AC187) to track a single flight. An empty date means today, which is what you usually want for status.

// every YYZ->YVR flight today
{ "mode": "flightStatus", "origin": "YYZ", "destination": "YVR" }

// one specific flight
{ "mode": "flightStatus", "flightNumber": "AC187", "departureDate": "2026-09-08" }

Every row — flight, calendar and status — shares one schema, so a mixed export stays a single flat table; fields that don't apply to a row type are null.

Optional extras

• includeCalendar — adds one record per date from Air Canada's low-fare calendar. Calendar rows are capped at half of maxItems so flight results always appear alongside them.
• includeSeatMap — a secondary, nice-to-have extra, off by default. It attaches the cabin seat layout (row, column, seat number). Air Canada's seat map carries no per-seat price and no availability, so this tells you the aircraft's seating grid, not what a seat costs or whether it is free. A seat-map failure never fails the run — the flight record is still emitted.

Timestamps

Departure and arrival times keep their original UTC offsets (e.g. 2026-09-24T07:00:00-04:00), so local times are unambiguous and no timezone is assumed on your behalf.

✨ Why use this Air Canada Flight Scraper?

• 🟢 No code required — set your input, click Start, download your data.
• ⚡ Fast & accurate — reads Air Canada's own private API and returns structured JSON, not scraped HTML.
• 🧾 Rich, structured data — every field below, clean and ready to use.
• 🎟️ Fare families across cabins — economy, premium economy and business cheapest fares on every itinerary, plus booking class and fare basis codes.
• 📅 Dated low-fare calendar — real dates with a full price breakdown (base fare, taxes, surcharges), not a guessed offset.
• 💸 Transparent pay-per-result pricing — pay only for the rows you get.
• 📤 Export anywhere — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or pull it live via the Apify API.

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🎯 What can you do with Air Canada data?

• Market & competitor research — analyse Air Canada records at scale.
• Price & availability monitoring — track changes over time.
• Data science & trend analysis — build clean datasets.
• Lead generation & enrichment — feed Air Canada data into your own tools.

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📥 What data does the Air Canada Flight Scraper extract?

Each row includes: type, origin, destination, departure_date, departure_time, arrival_time, duration_minutes, stops, offer_type, flight_numbers, marketing_airline, operating_airline, aircraft, departure_terminal …and more. See the full Data table below.

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🚀 How to scrape Air Canada (3 steps)

1. Set your input — provide origin or destination (see the table below; defaults work out of the box).
2. Pick options — filters, a proxyConfiguration, and a maxItems cap.
3. Run & export — click Start, then download the dataset as JSON/CSV/Excel or fetch it via the API.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	schedules	schedules = search flights with fares. flightStatus = live status for a route/date or a single flight.
origin	string	YYZ	Origin airport IATA code, e.g. YYZ.
destination	string	YVR	Destination airport IATA code, e.g. YVR.
departureDate	string	–	Outbound date. Pick a date or use a relative value like "30 days". Empty = 30 days from today.
adults	integer	1	Number of adult passengers.
flightNumber	string	–	Flight-status mode only. One flight, e.g. AC187 or 187. Empty = every flight on the route/date.
includeCalendar	boolean	false	Schedules mode only. Also emit one record per date from Air Canada's dated low-fare calendar around your departure date.
includeSeatMap	boolean	false	Schedules mode only. Attach the cabin seat LAYOUT (rows, columns, seat numbers) to each flight. Note: Air Canada's seat map carries no per-seat price or availability.
maxItems	integer	100	0 = all results.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy	Route requests through a proxy (Apify Proxy by default).

Example input

{
  "origin": "YYZ",
  "destination": "YVR",
  "adults": 1,
  "includeCalendar": false,
  "includeSeatMap": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

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📤 Output

Each result is a JSON object like this:

{
  "type": "flight",
  "origin": "YYZ",
  "destination": "YVR",
  "departure_date": "2026-09-24",
  "departure_time": "2026-09-24T07:00:00-04:00",
  "arrival_time": "2026-09-24T08:52:00-07:00",
  "duration_minutes": 292,
  "stops": 0,
  "offer_type": "NonStop",
  "flight_numbers": [
    "AC181"
  ],
  "marketing_airline": "AC",
  "operating_airline": "AC",
  "aircraft": "Boeing 787-9",
  "departure_terminal": "1",
  "arrival_terminal": "M",
  "has_wifi": false,
  "cheapest_fare_economy": 239,
  "cheapest_fare_premium_economy": 1380,
  "cheapest_fare_business": 2020,
  "cheapest_fare_first": null,
  "currency": "CAD",
  "fare_options": [
    {
      "cabin_code": "Y",
      "cheapest_fare": 239,
      "booking_class": "G",
      "fare_basis_code": "GU2NZCBA",
      "has_lie_flat_seats": false
    },
    {
      "cabin_code": "Y",
      "cheapest_fare": 239,
      "booking_class": "G",
      "fare_basis_code": "GU2NZCTG",
      "has_lie_flat_seats": false
    },
    "…+7 more"
  ],
  "is_cheapest": true,
  "ranking": 1,
  "segments": [
    {
      "origin": "YYZ",
      "destination": "YVR",
      "departure_time": "2026-09-24T07:00:00-04:00",
      "arrival_time": "2026-09-24T08:52:00-07:00",
      "departure_terminal": "1",
      "arrival_terminal": "M",
      "aircraft": "Boeing 787-9",
      "flight_number": "AC181",
      "has_wifi": false
    }
  ],
  "seat_map": null,
  "seat_count": null,
  "calendar_date": null,
  "calendar_total_fare": null,
  "calendar_base_fare": null,
  "calendar_taxes": null,
  "calendar_is_lowest": null
}

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🧾 Data table

Field	Type	Description
type	text	Record type
origin	text	Origin
destination	text	Destination
departure_date	text	Departure date
departure_time	text	Departs
arrival_time	text	Arrives
duration_minutes	number	Duration (min)
stops	number	Stops
offer_type	text	Offer type
flight_numbers	array	Flight numbers
marketing_airline	text	Marketing airline
operating_airline	text	Operating airline
aircraft	text	Aircraft
departure_terminal	text	Dep terminal
arrival_terminal	text	Arr terminal
has_wifi	boolean	Wi-Fi
cheapest_fare_economy	number	Economy
cheapest_fare_premium_economy	number	Premium economy
cheapest_fare_business	number	Business
cheapest_fare_first	number	First
currency	text	Currency
fare_options	array	Fare options
is_cheapest	boolean	Cheapest
ranking	number	Ranking
segments	array	Segments
seat_map	array	Seat map
seat_count	number	Seats in map
calendar_date	text	Calendar date
calendar_total_fare	number	Calendar fare
calendar_base_fare	number	Calendar base fare
calendar_taxes	number	Calendar taxes
calendar_is_lowest	boolean	Lowest in window

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💰 Pricing — pay per result

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay only for the rows it delivers.

You scrape	Price
Flight option	$2.00 per 1,000 rows

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🔌 Use the Air Canada Flight Scraper via API

Run it programmatically with the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/aircanada-api-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "origin": "YYZ",
  "destination": "YVR",
  "adults": 1,
  "includeCalendar": false,
  "includeSeatMap": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}'

Or with the Apify CLI: apify call aircanada-api-scraper -i input.json -o.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need an account or API key for Air Canada Flight?

No. The actor talks to Air Canada's public/mobile API for you — you only need an Apify account.

Do I need a proxy?

A proxy is recommended for reliable runs; set proxyConfiguration (Residential is safest for geo-restricted or bot-protected sites).

What export formats are supported?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, JSONL, RSS, or live via the Apify API and dataset endpoints.

Is scraping this legal?

You are responsible for how you use the data. Scrape only public record data and comply with Air Canada's Terms and applicable law (e.g. GDPR/CCPA for personal data).

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🛠️ How it works

The actor impersonates Air Canada's official app/site and calls its private API the same way the app does, then normalises each response into the flat record above. No browser, no HTML scraping — just clean, structured data.

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📌 Good to know

• Scrape only public record data and respect Air Canada's Terms of Service and robots policy.
• For personal data, comply with GDPR/CCPA and applicable law — you are the data controller.
• Fields can be null when Air Canada doesn't expose them for a given record.

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