Earlier I wrote about Google Flights, probably the most useful tool for comparing airfare. In this post, I’d like to cover another website I constantly use when planning air travel, which is perhaps a little less obvious.
On a near daily basis I’m curious to see what nonstop flights exist out of an airport, and on what airlines. Sometimes I do this for trips I’m actually planning, while other times I sort of fake plan trips that I hope to take at some point (as one does!).
So whether you’re looking at planning travel out of a major airport that has service to just about everywhere, or are planning travel out of a smaller airport with limited service, it helps to know what your options are. And that brings me to an often overlooked website for these purposes.
Wikipedia’s airport pages list nonstop flight destinations
Typically if you Google something like “nonstop flights from Tampa Airport,” most of the results won’t actually be particularly useful, easy to understand, or accurate. You’ll often see ads for online travel agencies, which are simply looking to have you book tickets with them, rather than actually giving you the information you need.
If you want to see what nonstop flights are available out of a particular airport, your best bet is to go to the airport’s Wikipedia page. Scroll down to the section for “Airlines and destinations,” and you’ll get an awesome chart listing all the destinations from the airport, by airline. For example, here’s the page for Tampa Airport (TPA).
Since this is Wikipedia, the information might not be 100% accurate (that’s true of just about anything on the internet), but I find it to be pretty spot on a vast majority of the time.
Now, some might wonder if this is actually useful for a major airport that has service to a lot of destinations. I think it is, and you can always just use the page search function to specifically check on the destination you’re interested in.
Personally I find this most useful for smaller airports that I’m less familiar with. For example, I really want to visit Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and keep trying to figure out ways I can do this with a creative aviation angle. Going to the Wikipedia page for Manas International Airport (BSZ) is a great place to start.
Several other websites show nonstop flight details as well
While Wikipedia does the trick for me, in the interest of being thorough, I should mention that several other websites also try to make it easy to search the details of nonstop flights from a particular airport. For example:
- FlightsFrom lets you search nonstop flights, as you can just enter your origin airport, and then you’ll see the airlines that fly to each destination from there, along with frequencies
- FlightConnections shows all nonstop flights from an airport, with a high level of accuracy, information on frequencies, and nice visuals
- FlightAware has a Flight Finder feature, whereby you can enter an origin and destination, and it will show you all nonstop flights between the airports (which is a bit different than seeing all the nonstop destinations from a particular airport)
- Kayak has a page about nonstop flights, where you can enter the origin airport, and it’ll show you all the nonstop flight destinations, including the airlines, frequencies, etc.
Why am I not more enthusiastic about these websites, given that they offer more information than Wikipedia? Well, I appreciate how Wikipedia consolidates the information so nicely. And really finding out nonstop flights from an airport is just the very first phase of my research when booking a flight.
Once I’ve figured out the basics about air service to an airport, I head over to Google Flights, and continue the search there. So frankly I find a lot of the information displayed on these other sites to just be unnecessary, at least for my purposes.
Bottom line
Sometimes it can be useful to figure out the nonstop flights available from a particular airport, especially with the number of new point-to-point routes we see nowadays. While there are lots of websites that will show you this information, I find Wikipedia to be the best and easiest to use resource for this. Along with Google Flights, this is one of the tools I use a majority of the time when planning flights.
Anyone else love the Wikipedia airport pages for figuring out nonstop flights, or do you prefer another resource?
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