Track flight status and get FlightAware links. Use when asked about flights, flight status, arrival times, or flight tracking. Trigger words - flight, flying, UA, AA, DL, landing, arriving, departure.
Track flights and get accurate FlightAware links.
uv run ~/.claude/skills/flight-tracker/scripts/track.py UA1372
uv run ~/.claude/skills/flight-tracker/scripts/track.py "UA 1372"
uv run ~/.claude/skills/flight-tracker/scripts/track.py DL405 --date 2026-01-30
uv run ~/.claude/skills/flight-tracker/scripts/track.py UA1372 --json
uv run ~/.claude/skills/flight-tracker/scripts/track.py UA1372 --all # show all dates, not just today
The script will:
trackpollBootstrap JSON from the pageFlightAware embeds all flight data as JSON in a trackpollBootstrap JavaScript variable on the page. The script fetches the HTML with a simple requests.get(), parses out the JSON with raw_decode, and extracts structured data including:
No Chrome or API key required.
| IATA | ICAO | Airline |
|---|---|---|
| UA | UAL | United Airlines |
| AA | AAL | American Airlines |
| DL | DAL | Delta Air Lines |
| WN | SWA | Southwest Airlines |
| B6 | JBU | JetBlue Airways |
| AS | ASA | Alaska Airlines |
| NK | NKS | Spirit Airlines |
| F9 | FFT | Frontier Airlines |
| HA | HAL | Hawaiian Airlines |
--json flag outputs structured data for programmatic usezoneinfo (e.g., America/Los_Angeles, America/New_York). Never use hardcoded UTC offset arithmetic — use proper timezone objects so times automatically shift during DST transitions.--json output before posting in group chats or SMS. DST edge cases can cause displayed times to be off by 1 hour. To verify: run with --json and confirm the human-readable time matches datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_ts, tz=timezone) for the destination airport's timezone.