Flight Passport: An Entry Stamp for Every Country You Fly To

A paper passport fills with stamps only when a border officer takes the time to press one, and fewer borders do. The flight passport in FlightLog does the opposite: it builds the stamps for you, from the flights in your logbook. Fly to a new country, log the flight, and the stamp is there.

What is the flight passport?

It is a page of passport-style entry stamps inside FlightLog, a flight diary for iPhone, iPad and Android. Each country you have visited gets exactly one stamp, so ten flights to Japan still give one Japanese stamp. The stamps are laid out on chronological pages, in the order you first flew to each country. Your first trip is on the first page, and the newest country is the last stamp.

What does a stamp look like?

The stamps imitate the look of real entry stamps. A Schengen stamp, for example, shows the country letter and the airport name, as the real ones do. Each stamp also carries a flight number and the number of flights you have taken to that country, so a stamp tells a small story: where, how, and how often.

How does the passport fill up?

You do not stamp anything yourself. The passport is built from your flights, and it grows each time you add one. Any way of adding a flight counts:

• type a flight number and a date, and the schedule lookup fills airports and times
• scan a paper or digital boarding pass with the camera or from a photo
• take a photo of a booking confirmation or e-ticket, and all its flights are read at once
• forward booking emails to your personal import address and confirm the pending flights
• import the trips from your calendar
• import a file exported from another app, such as Flighty, myFlightradar24, OpenFlights or FlightMemory

If you already have years of flights somewhere else, an import fills the passport in one go, with the stamps in the right order. Flights that are already in your logbook are flagged during an import, so nothing is added twice.

Which countries get a stamp?

The passport uses the same definition of a visited country as the countries counter in your statistics. A country counts when an airport in that country is the departure or the arrival of a flight in your logbook, and each country counts once. The number of stamps is therefore the number of countries you see in your statistics. For the general problem of what counts as a country, read how to count the countries you have visited.

FlightLog works from flights. A country you reached by train, car or boat has no stamp, because no flight in your logbook lands there.

Is it a flight passport app or a travel passport stamps app?

If you are looking for a flight passport app or a travel passport stamps app, this is the idea: your stamps come from what you have actually flown, so they are never typed by hand and never out of date. FlightLog is a complete flight diary, so the passport sits next to the rest of your travel record: the journal, the statistics and the maps.

• Statistics. Total distance (in km or miles), time in the air, number of flights, countries, airports, airlines, routes and aircraft types, year by year.
• Maps. All your routes on an interactive 3D globe and on a 2D map, and a map of visited countries.
• Aircraft. The aircraft type and registration of each flight, and a collection of every type you have flown.
• Achievements. Milestones you unlock as you fly.

Ideas for using your passport

• Rebuild a past life of travel. Import an old app, scan a box of boarding passes and watch your first stamps appear in the order you traveled. See how to find your flight history.
• Set a goal. Pick a number of countries for the year and check the passport to see how far you have come.
• Show it. Take a screenshot of your stamps, or share a statistics card to show your totals. You can also export your data to PDF, CSV and JSON.
• Mark an anniversary. The chronological order makes it easy to look back at your first trip abroad, or at the year you flew the most.
• Keep the memory. Stamps are rarer than they used to be, because many countries now record entries digitally. The European Union’s Entry/Exit System, for example, replaces the stamping of passports for eligible non-EU travelers. A flight passport keeps the souvenir.

Privacy and price

FlightLog works offline, and an account is optional if you want your logbook synced. Boarding passes and tickets (passenger name, booking reference) stay on your phone and are never synced to the server. FlightLog is free to download, every feature is free with the 10 most recent flights active, and Premium unlocks the complete history. Premium costs $4.99 per month, $29.99 per year or $99.99 once. See pricing and all features.

To keep going, read how to keep a flight diary and how to see all your flights on a map.