Look up any flight, route or airport, and embed the result

“Is this flight usually late?” is one of the most common questions travellers ask, and the answer is normally buried in government spreadsheets. TripStow now answers it for free, for anyone, with no account needed. Search a flight number, a route or an airport in Flight stats.

Three kinds of page

• Flights: every flight number's on-time record, typical delay, cancellations, the routes it flies and the aircraft types behind it. Try DL2639.
• Routes: every airline on a route, how punctual each one is, and all their flight numbers, so you can pick the most reliable option before you book. Try New York to Los Angeles.
• Airports: departures, destinations, airlines and punctuality, plus where TripStow travellers fly from there. Try JFK.

Where the numbers come from

For flights by US airlines, the figures come from the US Department of Transportation, which publishes every domestic flight's scheduled and actual times. TripStow refreshes them every month. On top of that, TripStow adds anonymous totals from flights logged by its travellers, which covers flights all over the world, and only ever appears once enough different people have flown it. How we measure punctuality explains the details.

Embed a live badge

Every flight, route and airport page has an on-time badge you can put on your own site: a travel blog, a trip report, a forum post or a flight review. Copy the code from the bottom of the page and paste it in.

Here are three of them, live:

The badges are built for other people's sites:

• Always current: the figures update on their own as new months of data arrive, so a post you wrote last year still shows this year's numbers.
• Light and fast: each badge is a tiny image with no scripts and no tracking, so it will not slow your page down or need a cookie banner.
• A dark and a light version to suit your site, and Markdown for forums and README files that do not allow HTML.
• One click to the full picture: readers who want more can tap through to the whole page.

Why it matters

Choosing between two flights with the same price is easier when you know one is late a third of the time. And if you write about travel, a live badge backs up “this flight is always late” with real numbers. Look up your next flight.