airinfoguide
An airport and travel guide: live departures and arrivals, getting into town, cars, parking and stays, day-by-day itineraries, plus a traveller passport, flight log and trip planner.
- Type
- Travel and airport guide
- Content
- 1,372 airports in 91 countries
- Flights
- Live from 93 official sources
- Stack
- Astro + React, Hono on Lambda, AWS CDK
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, German and Italian
Design decisions
Content from data
Distances, terminals, transport and sights live in YAML, and each country, city and airport’s texts and FAQs are generated from per-language templates. If a translation is missing, the build fails.
Live flights without a paid API
A Lambda queries each airport’s official source only when someone asks, keeps the answer 5 minutes in S3 and CloudFront caches it for 60 s. If the source is down, the last copy is served.
Alerts when a source changes
Each query records the airport’s health. Five failures in a row over 24 h, or 72 h without flights where there used to be some, send an alert, and a daily sweep covers airports nobody visits.
Growing through the long tail
Big airports compete with official websites; small ones and specific destinations do reach the top 10. The site grows in steps measured in Search Console, without publishing thousands of thin pages at once.
- Astro
- React
- Hono
- AWS Lambda
- CloudFront
- AWS CDK
- SEO
- PWA
Architecture
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