Airport & Airline Code API: IATA, ICAO, Distance

Use when: an AI agent or app needs to turn an airport or airline code into details (name, city, country, ICAO, time zone), find the nearest airports to a point, or get the great-circle distance and rough flight time between two airports.

Try this input (also the default, just click Start)

{"requests": [{"code": "LHR"}, {"from": "LHR", "to": "JFK"}, {"airline": "BA"}, {"lat": 51.5, "lon": -0.12, "action": "nearest"}]}

Sample output (real run, 2 Nov 2026, trimmed)

{"action": "airport", "query": "LHR", "name": "London Heathrow Airport", "iata": "LHR", "icao": "EGLL", "city": "London", "country": "United Kingdom", "timezone": "Europe/London", "error": null}
{"action": "distance", "from": {"iata": "LHR"}, "to": {"iata": "JFK"}, "distance_km": 5540, "distance_miles": 3442, "approx_flight_time_hours": 7.4, "co2_kg_per_passenger_est": 609, "error": null}
{"action": "airline", "query": "BA", "results": [{"name": "British Airways", "icao": "BAW", "callsign": "SPEEDBIRD", "active": true}], "error": null}
{"action": "nearest", "results": [{"name": "London City Airport", "iata": "LCY", "distance_km": 12.1}, {"iata": "LHR", "distance_km": 23.8}, "..."], "error": null}

Options

• {"code": "LHR"}: IATA or ICAO airport code (a plain string works too).
• {"from": "LHR", "to": "JFK"}: distance, flight time and CO2 estimate.
• {"airline": "BA"}: airline by IATA/ICAO code or name.
• {"lat": .., "lon": .., "action": "nearest"}: closest airports.

Up to 5000 items per run; no API key needed.

Pricing: pay per event, $0.001 per airport/airline lookup (one airport, airline, nearest-airport or distance lookup). Rows with errors are not charged. No subscription.

Limits & failure modes

• Flight time and CO2 are rough great-circle estimates, not schedules.
• Airline data (OpenFlights, ODbL 1.0) is community-maintained and can be out of date for new or merged airlines.
• No live flight status, schedules or prices.
• Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Time zones: timezonefinder (MIT).

Last tested: 2 Nov 2026.

Use from AI agents (MCP)

• Apify MCP server: add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=tudorlane/airport-airline-lookup to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, VS Code or any MCP client.
• REST: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/tudorlane~airport-airline-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN with the input JSON.