What to do with your App in the Air export file
The short answer: keep the file exactly as it is, then import it into an app that reads it. Flighty, MyFlight.Life, AirTrail and LogMy.World all say on their own sites that they take App in the Air exports. Details below, checked on 4 October 2026.
What happened to App in the Air
App in the Air left the App Store, Google Play and the Galaxy Store on 19 September 2024, and exporting data stayed possible until 19 October 2024, according to heise online and AlternativeTo. Flighty's own comparison page also refers to the closure on 19 October 2024. Flighty
What is in the file
The export arrived by email as a plain text file, usually called data.txt. It is not a spreadsheet: it is semicolon-separated rows grouped under section headings for your account, then for each trip its flights, hotels, car hire and expenses. Each flight row carries the airline code, flight number, aircraft type, departure and arrival airports and times. There is no official field list; this description comes from an open-source converter's sample file and MyFlight.Life's help page.
Do not open and re-save it in Excel or Numbers: importers expect the original file, and Flighty says it only accepts unmodified files.
Apps that import it
- Flighty (iPhone): Settings, Import Flights. The past year imports free; older flights need Flighty Pro. Flighty: importing flights
- MyFlight.Life: upload the .txt as it is. It keeps trips together and shows a preview first; free, up to 1,000 flights or 10 files. MyFlight.Life
- AirTrail (open source, run it yourself): choose App in the Air as the source, with an option to import only flights marked as yours. AirTrail
- LogMy.World lists App in the Air among the services it imports from. LogMy.World
We found no official App in the Air import for myFlightradar24, OpenFlights, Tripsy, LogMyFlight or JetLovers. A third-party tool converts the file into a CSV for myFlightradar24, but it is not made by Flightradar24. myfr24-converter
Keeping the history going
App in the Air did two jobs: a lifetime log of where you had flown, and help on the day. For the log, any of the apps above will do. If you also want new trips to fill themselves in from your booking emails, with your flights, countries and the planes you flew on adding up over time, that is what TripStow does. TripStow does not read App in the Air files yet; it imports LogMyFlight, myFlightradar24 and OpenFlights files.
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