Questions
Short, precise answers to the questions travelers and aviation fans ask most: where to find your past flights, what the codes on a boarding pass mean, which plane you flew on, and how to bring your history from another app.
Four ways to see every flight you have taken on one map: rebuild the list from your records, then plot it in a flight-log app or by hand.
Add up the great-circle distance of each flight you have taken. Here is the formula, a worked example and why airline miles are a different number.
Where your past flights are recorded: airline accounts, booking emails, your calendar and card statements, with search queries you can paste.
App in the Air closed in 2024 and its export window ended on October 19, 2024. Here is what you can still recover and how to rebuild your history.
In Flighty, open Profile, Settings, Account Data, then Export Your Flights. The file is emailed to you. Here are the steps and what to do next.
Sign in at my.flightradar24.com, open Settings, then the Export tab and download the CSV. Here are the steps and how to use the file elsewhere.
SEQ is the check-in sequence number: the order in which you were checked in for the flight. Here is what it affects, and what it does not.
SSSS means Secondary Security Screening Selection: extra TSA screening on US-related flights. What happens, why it repeats and how to ask for redress.
A PNR is the booking record behind your flight, and its code is the booking reference. Here is where to find it and how it differs from a ticket number.
The letter on your ticket is a booking class that sets price and rules inside a cabin. What Y, J and F usually mean, and why each airline differs.
There is no single official way to count countries. Compare the UN list with traveler clubs, decide how layovers count, and track your total.
Find the aircraft type of a flight before or after you fly: booking page, airline app, seat map, flight trackers, and how to read codes like 32N and 359.
The registration identifies one aircraft. Find it from a flight tracker by flight number and date, from photos of the plane, and decode its country prefix.
Forward airline confirmation emails to an import address or set up an automatic forwarding rule in Gmail, Outlook or iCloud, and review the flights found.
What to record for each flight, how a paper logbook, a spreadsheet and an app compare, and the habits that keep a flight diary going for years.
The FlightLog flight passport turns your logged flights into passport-style entry stamps, one for every country you have flown to, in the order you went.
Looking for a Flighty alternative, or one that runs on Android? Compare what to look for, see your options, and move your flight history over.
App in the Air closed in 2024. See what to look for in a replacement, your options, and how to import your old export file into FlightLog.
Want more than myFlightradar24 offers as a flight log? See what to look for, your options, and how to move your CSV export into FlightLog.
Want your OpenFlights logbook in a phone app? See what to look for, your options, and how to move your CSV backup into FlightLog.