Where does the data come from?

The FAA National Airspace System status feed, the same air traffic control source the FAA publishes, parsed into clean JSON.

What does a status include?

Airport closures with start and reopen times, ground stops with end times, ground delay programs with average and maximum delay, general arrival and departure delays with minimum, maximum and trend, and the airspace flow programs and CTOPs behind en-route holding.

The feed is fetched per request and cached at the edge for two minutes, so a status is never more than a couple of minutes old.

Does it cover airports outside the US?

No. The FAA feed covers US airports. For airport reference data worldwide, see the Airports API.

What does a call cost?

2 tokens, whether you ask for one airport or the whole national picture with per-category counts.

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Airport Status API

Live FAA delays for US airports: closures, ground stops, ground delay programs and arrival and departure delays

Live US airport delays, straight from FAA air traffic control. Real-time National Airspace System status parsed into clean JSON: airport closures (with start and reopen times), ground stops (departures to an airport held on the ground), ground delay programs (with average and maximum delay), general arrival/departure delays (min/max and whether the delay is increasing or decreasing), plus the airspace flow programs and CTOPs that explain en-route holding. Ask for the whole national picture with per-category counts, just the list of currently affected airports, or one airport by code — FAA/IATA 3-letter or ICAO K-prefixed (KLAX works) — and a quiet airport answers with an explicit "normal" status rather than an empty object. Responses are edge-cached for 2 minutes, so you get near-real-time data at API speed without hammering the FAA. The delay layer for flight trackers, travel apps, airport pickup timing, ops dashboards and "should I leave for the airport yet" features — pairs with our Airports, Airlines and Aircraft APIs. US airports only (FAA coverage).

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response.json

{
  "ok": true,
  "airport": "LAX",
  "update_time": "Sun Sep 13 06:28:01 2026 GMT",
  "status": "impacted",
  "closures": [
    {
      "airport": "LAX",
      "reason": "!LAX 05/277 LAX AD AP CLSD TO NON SKED TRANSIENT GA ACFT EXC 24HR PPR CTC ATLANTIC AVIATION 310-258-9884 OR SIGNATURE AVIATION 310-410-9605 2605271826-2705281600",
      "start": "May 27 at 18:26 UTC.",
      "reopen": "May 28 at 16:00 UTC."
    }
  ],
  "ground_stops": [],
  "ground_delays": [],
  "arrival_departure_delays": []
}

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Use cases for Airport Status API

Show a delay banner on a flight-tracking or travel app the moment the FAA reports one for an airport.
Alert operations teams to ground stops and ground delay programs at the airports they serve.
Explain en-route holding with the airspace flow programs and CTOPs in the national picture.
Log the national delay picture every few minutes for analysis and reporting.

Airport Status API endpoints

Every endpoint with its parameters and a real example response.

OpenAPI definition Postman workspace

GETAffected Airports
GETAirport Status
GETData Sources
GETNational Status

GETAffected Airports

https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/airport-status/delays

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl "https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/airport-status/delays" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "update_time": "Sun Sep 13 06:28:01 2026 GMT",
  "affected_airports": 5,
  "airports": [
    {
      "airport": "ALO",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "airport": "ASE",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "airport": "GSP",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "airport": "LAX",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
…

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{
  "ok": true,
  "update_time": "Sun Sep 13 06:28:01 2026 GMT",
  "affected_airports": 5,
  "airports": [
    {
      "airport": "ALO",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "airport": "ASE",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "airport": "GSP",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "airport": "LAX",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "airport": "SAN",
      "events": [
        "closure"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

GETAirport Status

https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/airport-status/{code}

Path parameters

Parameter	Example
code	LAX	Required

Example request

curl "https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/airport-status/LAX" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "airport": "LAX",
  "update_time": "Sun Sep 13 06:28:01 2026 GMT",
  "status": "impacted",
  "closures": [
    {
      "airport": "LAX",
      "reason": "!LAX 05/277 LAX AD AP CLSD TO NON SKED TRANSIENT GA ACFT EXC 24HR PPR CTC ATLANTIC AVIATION 310-258-9884 OR SIGNATURE AVIATION 310-410-9605 2605271826-2705281600",
      "start": "May 27 at 18:26 UTC.",
      "reopen": "May 28 at 16:00 UTC."
    }
  ],
  "ground_stops": [],
  "ground_delays": [],
  "arrival_departure_delays": []
}

GETData Sources

https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/sources

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl "https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/sources" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "sources": [
    {
      "slug": "faa-nas-status",
      "name": "FAA National Airspace System status",
      "publisher": "US Federal Aviation Administration",
      "licence": "US government work (public domain)",
      "source_url": "https://nasstatus.faa.gov/",
      "file_url": "https://nasstatus.faa.gov/api/airport-status-information",
      "cadence": "live feed; responses edge-cached 2 minutes"
    }
  ]
}

GETNational Status

https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/airport-status

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl "https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/airport-status" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "update_time": "Sun Sep 13 06:28:01 2026 GMT",
  "counts": {
    "closures": 5,
    "ground_stops": 0,
    "ground_delays": 0,
    "arrival_departure_delays": 0,
    "airspace_flow_programs": 0,
    "ctops": 0
  },
  "closures": [
    {
      "airport": "ALO",
      "reason": "!ALO 09/001 ALO AD AP CLSD EXC HEL 2609080900-2609230300",
      "start": "Sep 08 at 09:00 UTC.",
      "reopen": "Sep 23 at 03:00 UTC."
    },
    {
      "airport": "GSP",
      "reason": "!GSP 09/009 GSP AD AP CLSD 2609120000-2609141200",
      "start": "Sep 12 at 00:00 UTC.",
      "reopen": "Sep 14 at 12:00 UTC."
    },
    {
      "airport": "ASE",
      "reason": "!ASE 09/019 ASE AD AP CLSD EXC LIFE FLT HEL AND SAR HEL 30MIN PPR 970-379-8406 2609130500-2609131300",
      "start": "Sep 13 at 05:00 UTC.",
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{
  "ok": true,
  "update_time": "Sun Sep 13 06:28:01 2026 GMT",
  "counts": {
    "closures": 5,
    "ground_stops": 0,
    "ground_delays": 0,
    "arrival_departure_delays": 0,
    "airspace_flow_programs": 0,
    "ctops": 0
  },
  "closures": [
    {
      "airport": "ALO",
      "reason": "!ALO 09/001 ALO AD AP CLSD EXC HEL 2609080900-2609230300",
      "start": "Sep 08 at 09:00 UTC.",
      "reopen": "Sep 23 at 03:00 UTC."
    },
    {
      "airport": "GSP",
      "reason": "!GSP 09/009 GSP AD AP CLSD 2609120000-2609141200",
      "start": "Sep 12 at 00:00 UTC.",
      "reopen": "Sep 14 at 12:00 UTC."
    },
    {
      "airport": "ASE",
      "reason": "!ASE 09/019 ASE AD AP CLSD EXC LIFE FLT HEL AND SAR HEL 30MIN PPR 970-379-8406 2609130500-2609131300",
      "start": "Sep 13 at 05:00 UTC.",
      "reopen": "Sep 13 at 13:00 UTC."
    },
    {
      "airport": "LAX",
      "reason": "!LAX 05/277 LAX AD AP CLSD TO NON SKED TRANSIENT GA ACFT EXC 24HR PPR CTC ATLANTIC AVIATION 310-258-9884 OR SIGNATURE AVIATION 310-410-9605 2605271826-2705281600",
      "start": "May 27 at 18:26 UTC.",
      "reopen": "May 28 at 16:00 UTC."
    },
    {
      "airport": "SAN",
      "reason": "!SAN 03/071 SAN AD AP CLSD TO NON SKED TRANSIENT GA ACFT EXC PPR 619-298-7704 2603181300-2610010800",
      "start": "Mar 18 at 13:00 UTC.",
      "reopen": "Oct 01 at 08:00 UTC."
    }
  ],
  "ground_stops": [],
  "ground_delays": [],
  "arrival_departure_delays": [],
  "airspace_flow_programs": [],
  "ctops": [],
  "coverage": "US airports (FAA National Airspace System)"
}

Where the data comes from

Source: FAA National Airspace System status feed (public domain), parsed live.
Freshness: Fetched per request, edge-cached for two minutes.

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import axios from 'axios';

const { data } = await axios.get(
  'https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/airport-status/delays',
  { headers: { 'X-Api-Key': process.env.API_KEY } }
);

Airport Status API · X-Api-Key

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Available Endpoints

Request Parameters

API URL

Headers

X-Api-Key

Target:

Client:

import axios from 'axios';

const url = 'https://api-airport-status.dataandapis.com/v1/airport-status/delays';
const { data } = await axios.get(url, {
  headers: { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' }
});