---
title: "List airlines"
method: GET
path: "/data/flights/airlines"
tags: ["Airlines"]
---

# List airlines

`GET /data/flights/airlines`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0`
- URL: `https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0/data/flights/airlines`
- Auth: API key in header `X-API-Key`

## Overview

Retrieve a list of airlines with optional filtering by name, alliance, and active status.

## When to Use

- **Airline directory** - Build a searchable list of airlines for display or filtering
- **Alliance filtering** - Filter airlines by alliance membership (Star Alliance, oneworld, SkyTeam)
- **Active airlines** - Retrieve only currently operating airlines

## What You Get

- **Full airline records** including name, IATA/ICAO codes, country, alliance, and logo URL
- **Alliance membership** for each airline
- **Active status** to identify currently operating carriers
- **Filtered results** based on query, alliance, and active status parameters

## Quick Start

Call with no parameters to get all airlines. Use `q` to search by name, `alliance` to filter by alliance, and `activeOnly=true` to exclude inactive carriers.

## Query parameters

- `q` string
- `limit` integer
- `activeOnly` boolean
- `alliance` 'star_alliance' | 'oneworld' | 'skyteam' | 'vanilla_alliance'

## Response `200`

Successful response

- object
  - `data` object[]: List of airline result sets
    - `airlines` Airline[]: List of airlines matching the query
      - `active` boolean: Whether the airline is currently active
      - `alliance` string: Airline alliance membership (star_alliance, oneworld, skyteam, vanilla_alliance)
      - `callsign` string: Airline callsign
      - `country` string: Country of origin
      - `iata` string: 2-letter IATA airline code
      - `icao` string: 3-letter ICAO airline code
      - `logo` string: URL to airline logo
      - `name` string: Airline name

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized
- `500`: Server error

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/liteapi/apis/api-flights.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/liteapi/apis/api-flights/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/liteapi/apis/api-flights/revisions/7ccb4b3a8bde?raw)