App in the Air Alternative After the Shutdown

App in the Air is gone, and many people are still looking for a place to keep their flight history. This page covers what happened, what to look for in a replacement, the options, and how to bring an old export file into FlightLog.

Why do people look for an App in the Air alternative?

Because the app closed. App in the Air announced that it would cease operations on September 19, 2024, and that day it was pulled from the Apple App Store, Google Play and the Samsung Galaxy Store. Users could access and export their data until October 19, 2024, and support by email ran until the same date. The company suggested TripIt as an alternative.

If you used the app to log your flights, that history lived in an account that no longer exists. What survives is the export file the app emailed you, if you requested one. For the full picture, see how to recover your App in the Air flights.

What should you look for in a replacement?

• An import that reads your old file. Retyping years of flights is the real cost of switching.
• A file you control. Choose an app that exports to CSV or JSON, so the next move is not a crisis.
• Offline use. You use a flight log in airport queues and in the air.
• Ways to add flights. Flight number lookup, boarding pass scanning, email forwarding and calendar import.
• Statistics and maps. Distance, time in the air, countries, airports, airlines and aircraft types.
• Longevity signals. Check the app’s update history, and whether your data can leave the app.

Which options exist?

• TripIt. The option App in the Air itself pointed to. Its help center says you add a trip by forwarding a booking confirmation email to plans@tripit.com, and TripIt builds the itinerary. It is a trip organizer first.
• FlightLog. A flight diary for iPhone, iPad and Android, built around the history of the flights you have taken. It can read the export file App in the Air emailed to its users.

For a feature-by-feature view, see FlightLog vs App in the Air and the comparison hub.

What does FlightLog offer?

• Adding flights: type a flight number and date, scan a boarding pass with the camera or from a photo, photograph a booking confirmation, forward booking emails to your personal import address, or import trips from the phone calendar.
• Statistics: distance, time in the air, flights, countries, airports, airlines, routes and aircraft types, year by year, with a carbon estimate based on DEFRA factors.
• Maps: an interactive 3D globe, a 2D map and a map of visited countries.
• Aircraft: type and registration on each flight, an aircraft collection and seat maps.
• Passport and achievements: passport-style entry stamps per country, plus achievements and shareable cards.
• Export: PDF, CSV and JSON.

It is available in 33 languages and works offline, with optional account sync. Every feature is free with your 10 most recent flights active, and Premium unlocks the complete history: $4.99 per month, $29.99 per year or $99.99 once.

How do you import your App in the Air export into FlightLog?

The App in the Air import guide has the full steps. In short:

1. Find the email App in the Air sent you before it closed. The export came as a file called data.txt. Search your mailbox, spam and archive, and your cloud drives.
2. Open the email on your phone and save data.txt to Files.
3. In FlightLog, open the import screen and pick the file.
4. Review the list. Flights already in your journal are flagged and unchecked by default. Confirm the rest.

The official export window ended on October 19, 2024. If you never requested an export, you cannot get a new one from the app. In that case, rebuild your history from booking emails, your calendar and old boarding passes. See import booking emails and import your calendar.

What do you keep and what do you lose?

FlightLog imports the flight number and airline, the date and local times, the departure and arrival airports, the aircraft type, the cabin class and the seat. Times are read in the local time of each airport, as the app showed them.

Not everything in the file comes across, by design. Booking references and ticket numbers are never imported. The export also lists trips that were not marked as yours, and only the trips marked as yours are imported. Distances and carbon figures are computed by FlightLog rather than copied.

What if I have no export file?

Rebuild from the records that still exist. Search your mailbox for itineraries and e-tickets, import trips from your phone calendar, and scan any boarding passes you kept. If you also used TripIt, your trips may still be in that account. FlightLog reads booking confirmations you photograph, and booking emails you forward to your personal import address arrive as pending flights that you confirm one by one.

Will I end up with duplicates?

No. FlightLog compares each row with your journal and flags anything already there, unchecked by default. You can repeat an import safely.

Do I need Premium to import?

Importing is free while you are under the free limit of 10 flights. The import that takes you past it still goes through in full: the extra flights stay visible but locked, and nothing is ever deleted. Once you are over the limit, further imports need Premium.