---
title: "Live flight status and tracking."
method: GET
path: "/api/flight/status"
tags: ["flight"]
---

# Live flight status and tracking.

`GET /api/flight/status`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://2s.io`
- URL: `https://2s.io/api/flight/status`
- Auth: API key in header `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`

Live flight status and tracking. Pass ident as an airline flight designator (ICAO "UAL1" or IATA "UA1") or an aircraft tail number; returns recent and upcoming instances of that flight with origin/destination airports (ICAO/IATA/name/city/timezone), status, cancellation/diversion flags, scheduled vs estimated vs actual gate and runway times (out/off/on/in), departure and arrival delays, en-route progress percent, aircraft type and registration, and route distance. limit controls how many instances return (default 5, newest first by scheduled departure). Real-time operational data — answer "where is this flight, is it delayed, when does it land" with live values. For airport metadata see /api/airport/lookup. Billing: payment settles before this endpoint runs (paid upstream), so an error after settlement IS charged — the error response then carries the payment receipt (PAYMENT-RESPONSE) and `X-2s-Charged: true`.

## Query parameters

- `ident` string, required
- `identType` 'designator' | 'registration' | 'fa_flight_id'
- `limit` integer
- `trial` 1

## Other responses

- `200` (unresolved $ref)
- `400`: Invalid request. Parameter validation (BAD_REQUEST / INVALID_PARAM with error.details.issues, MALFORMED_JSON) runs before payment and is never charged; a request-specific 400 raised by the endpoint itself runs after settlement on this paid-upstream operation and IS charged (`X-2s-Charged: true` + PAYMENT-RESPONSE receipt).
- `402`: Payment required. Body is the x402 PaymentRequirements envelope with a multi-network accepts array; the per-call price is in accepts[].amount (and on the operation as x-2s-price). Sign for whichever rail you hold USDC on (EIP-3009 for Base, partial SPL transfer for Solana) and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (X-PAYMENT also accepted for v1 clients). Also PAYMENT_SETTLE_FAILED (error envelope) when a verified payment failed to settle: error.details.chargeStatus is "not_charged" (retry with a fresh payment) or "unknown" (the authorization may still settle before its deadline — check it before retrying).
- `404`: Not found — NOT_FOUND (or NO_SOURCES / NO_OPINIONS): the requested entity does not exist. On a paid-upstream operation (see its description) this can follow settlement: then the call WAS charged and the response carries `X-2s-Charged: true` plus the PAYMENT-RESPONSE receipt.
- `429`: Too many requests — RATE_LIMITED: our per-IP / per-payer limiter. Not charged; retry after Retry-After.
- `5XX`: Server-side failure. 500 INTERNAL: unexpected error; quote error.errorId (also the X-2s-Error-Id header). 502 UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE (or another UPSTREAM_* code): the data provider failed — composite endpoints refuse unbilled when every source fails. 503 SERVICE_PAUSED: endpoint paused by the operator kill switch, retry after Retry-After; 503 SPEND_CAP: daily upstream budget exhausted. 504 UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT. On a paid-upstream operation (see its description) this can follow settlement: then the call WAS charged and the response carries `X-2s-Charged: true` plus the PAYMENT-RESPONSE receipt. SERVICE_PAUSED and SPEND_CAP are never charged.

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