Import your flight history into FlightDex

From another flight app

FlightDex imports the export file from these apps:

• Flighty. Step-by-step: bringing a Flighty history to Android.
• byAir. Step-by-step: moving a byAir history to FlightDex.
• myFlightradar24. Download your flights as a CSV file at my.flightradar24.com/settings/export.
• OpenFlights. Export your flights as a CSV file from OpenFlights.
• App in the Air. The app closed in 2024. If you saved its export, a file called data.txt, FlightDex can read it. Step-by-step: importing an App in the Air export.

In FlightDex, every one starts from the same place: Bring your flights from another app, on the You tab. You pick which app the file came from, say whether you were on all of the flights, and choose the file.

Every flight is accounted for

Before anything is saved, you see what will happen to each flight listed in the file. It becomes a new flight, or it matches a flight already in your Passport (or an earlier line of the same file), or it is not imported. A match can fill in details the existing flight was missing, when the file has them, and says exactly what it added. A flight that is not imported is listed with its line number and the reason. A blank line is counted as skipped. Nothing goes missing quietly.

What an import is, and is not

Imported flights become history in your Passport. They are not tracked live, so an import costs nothing. A file can be up to 1 MB, or 5,000 flights, whichever comes first; a longer history can be split into several files. Importing is free; it does not need Pro. The file is read on our server and is not stored; only the flights in it are kept.

If you used App in the Air

App in the Air closed in 2024. If you saved the data.txt export it sent you, FlightDex imports the flights in it like any other file. Flights that old are too far back for the ways below to add one at a time, so the file is the way in. What to do with an App in the Air export.

Every other way to add a flight

1. By flight number and date. Type the number, and FlightDex lists its recent and upcoming departures, each with its departure time, so you can see it is the right one before you add it. If search cannot find it, you can enter the number and date by hand.
2. By route and date, in the next app update. Enter the two airports and the date, and FlightDex lists that day’s flights on the route, one page of them; tap yours to add it. The free plan has 1 route search a day and Pro has 10.
3. From a confirmation email. Paste the text of a booking confirmation, and FlightDex picks out the flights for you to review and correct. You are shown what will be sent first: the text is read once on our server and not stored.
4. From your calendar. FlightDex looks for flights in your device calendar. You untick anything you would rather keep on your phone before it is sent. The calendar permission is asked for only if you choose this or, from the next app update, if you turn on adding your flights to your calendar.
5. From a boarding pass. If you attach a pass that belongs to a different flight, FlightDex shows you the difference and offers to add the flight on the pass and attach it there. How boarding passes are stored.
6. A sample flight. Before you have any flights of your own, you can add an invented one to see how the app works. It is labelled as a sample everywhere it appears.