# FlightAware Canonical Flight Identifier Lookup

> FlightAware Canonical Flight Identifier Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from StableTravel at stabletravel.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-09).

Retrieves the canonical identifier for a flight, returning standardized IATA, ICAO, and FlightAware identifiers for a given flight ID

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://stabletravel.dev/api/flightaware/flights/:id/canonical?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-09
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: StableTravel
- Docs: https://stabletravel.dev
- Website: https://stabletravel.dev
- Tags: amadeus, flightaware, flights, hotels, activities, transfers, travel, data, web
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/stabletravel-canonical-014221e8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tRHO2OzetNdBNF6Bjor4F

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability stabletravel-canonical-014221e8
```

Example prompt: What is the canonical FlightAware identifier for flight AA100 — I need the IATA, ICAO, and fa_flight_id for that designator.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to normalize or resolve a flight identifier to its canonical form across multiple identifier systems (IATA, ICAO, FlightAware). Ideal when downstream systems require a specific identifier type and you only have a different type, or when you need to confirm a flight's official designator before making further API calls like tracking or delay lookups.

## Known failure modes

- Flight ID not found — returns null fields or 404 if flight does not exist
- Invalid ident_type enum value causes validation error
- Malformed flight ID format results in error response
- Flight exists but identifiers are unavailable, returning null for some fields

## How this service works

Get canonical ident for a flight

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the canonical flight ident (string or null), IATA identifier (ident_iata), ICAO identifier (ident_icao), and FlightAware flight ID (fa_flight_id) for the requested flight.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "properties": {
      "ident_type": {
       "enum": [
        "fa_flight_id",
        "designator",
        "registration"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Type of flight identifier"
      },
      "country_code": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Country code filter"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "properties": {
      "ident": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string"
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ]
      },
      "ident_iata": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string"
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ]
      },
      "ident_icao": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string"
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ]
      },
      "fa_flight_id": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string"
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ]
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": {}
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/stabletravel-canonical-014221e8/health.json
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