Flight Search from anywhere to a specific destination

Flight Search from anywhere to a specific destination

2/15/2018 7:45:21 PM

Most airlines fly to a destination and back again. Pretend you are flying the other way to get a feel for the airlines and their fares. This way you will narrow it down to few routings. Then do a few specific searches for your actual direction of travel.

The other way is to not be so obsessed with cost. For example, consider if it is worthwhile spending an extra €10 on the bus, plus an extra night’s accommodation, and getting to the airport at 5am, just to save €30 on the airfare.

3/18/2019 9:02:27 AM

It’s not exactly what you want, but in google flights you can enter multiple airports for both departure and arrival airport, separating the airport codes with commas. You can use it to restrict your search to a reasonable list of airports you may be interested in. The results can be filtered and sorted in the usual way. Example: find all flights from all airports in New York, plus Boston and Houston to a few locations in Europe. Image

4/14/2022 9:25:30 AM

This is one of the reasons I liked the Airline Route Mapper data.

Say I want to find out all the routes with a destination of IOM:

$ awk '$3=="IOM"' routes.dat
BA  LCY IOM *   0   S20
BE  BHX IOM     0   DH4
BE  LPL IOM     0   DH4
BE  MAN IOM     0   DH4 E75
EI  DUB IOM *   0   AT4
U2  LGW IOM     0   319
U2  LPL IOM     0   319
V9  BHD IOM     0   L4T
V9  BLK IOM     0   L4T
V9  GLO IOM     0   L4T
V9  NCL IOM     0   J31

Only problem is that the data is infrequently updated. However it’s a good pointer to what is likely to be available. The other data sets will allow you to import data into something like SQLITE and then filter based on country, distance, proximity to somewhere else, etc.

Edit: As mentioned in comments this only allows routes to be found and potential origins would have to be fed into another flight search engine for pricing.

Alternatively, skyscanner allows origins at a country level, e.g. UK to IOM or France to MAD.

skyscanner screenshot

7/17/2016 5:36:55 PM

Of all the search engines known to me, it can be done with Kiwi.

Say I want to fly to Madrid from anywhere in Central + Eastern Europe, I can choose Madrid as my destination and a circle encompassing approximately my suitable departure airports as shown below.

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Only look to the list on the left as I could not make out any sense in the prices shown on the map.

Kiwi has plenty of options, you can

  • move and expand the departure circle freely
  • choose a specific date, date range or anytime
  • make your destination a set of nearby destinations via another circle

I suggest you to search for direct flights only, as they have a weird option of connecting two separate tickets on low-cost carriers with a “Kiwi-guarantee”, read more in their FAQ if tempted.
Further warning: I have no idea what flights/airlines are covered by kiwi, in this example it shows both low-cost and full-service airlines but I would not bet on it at all times.

Further reading:
I touched upon Kiwi in this answer of mine.

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