FlightLabs API Blog: Discover Flight Data & Airport Info Anywhere

You need reliable arrivals and departures for Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO) that your app can query and cache. By the end of this guide you’ll call the FlightLabs schedules endpoint for MCO, parse the JSON for times and terminals, understand when to switch to real-time status, and design polling and caching that won’t spam your users or your quota. What “schedules at MCO” actually means Flight schedules are timetables: planned departure and arrival times, plus basic route and aircraft context. They answer “what’s expected at MCO and when.” They typically do not contain gate changes, rolling delays, or cancellations. For those events, combine schedules with real-time tracking....