Load Air France KLM Flight Status data to DuckDB

The Air France-KLM Flight Status API provides programmatic access to real-time flight schedules and status information for Air France and KLM operations. Everything needed to build a working Air France KLM Flight Status → DuckDB pipeline is on this page: the API's base URL, authentication, endpoints, pagination and incremental field — plus a prompt that hands the whole job to your coding agent.

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Build your Air France KLM Flight Status to DuckDB pipeline

Paste this prompt into Claude, Codex, or Cursor. The agent does the rest.

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Run uvx dlthub-init@latest to build a pipeline from Air France KLM Flight Status to DuckDB and run it on dltHub

That scaffolds a dltHub workspace and installs the dltHub AI harness — the project rules, the secrets-management skill, and the dlt MCP server your agent needs to work safely. From there it reads the Air France KLM Flight Status API, proposes the endpoints to load, then writes, runs and validates the pipeline while you review rather than type. Credentials are inspected through MCP tools, so your agent never reads secrets.toml itself. How the LLM-native workflow works →

Prefer to write it yourself? Every fact the agent uses is below.

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Air France KLM Flight Status API at a glance

These values come from the Air France KLM Flight Status API documentation. Check them against the vendor's current reference before relying on them in production.

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How do I authenticate with the Air France KLM Flight Status API?

Authentication is performed by passing an API key in the request header named 'API-Key'.

1. Get your credentials

To obtain API credentials, navigate to the official Air France-KLM Developer Portal at https://developer.airfranceklm.com/. Register for an account if you do not have one. Once logged in, browse the available API products—specifically the 'Open Data' or 'Flight Status' categories—and subscribe to the product(s) relevant to your project. After subscription, you can generate your API key (and optionally an API secret) from your account or application dashboard within the portal.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.air_france_klm_flight_status_source]
afkl_api_key = "your_api_key_here"
# Optional: afkl_api_secret = "your_api_secret_here"

dlt reads this file automatically at runtime. With the harness, the setup-secrets skill prompts you for the values and never handles the raw credential in chat. For production, see setting up credentials with dlt.

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What Air France KLM Flight Status data can I load into DuckDB?

These are the Air France KLM Flight Status endpoints dlt can load into DuckDB:

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How do I load only new Air France KLM Flight Status records?

The Air France KLM Flight Status API reference does not document a timestamp or sequence field for these endpoints, so there is nothing to advertise here as verified. Pick a field from the endpoints table above that increases with every write, then set it as the cursor_path.

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{"name": "flight_status", "endpoint": {
    "path": "opendata/flightstatus/",
    # Replace with a field that increases on every write.
    "incremental": {"cursor_path": "REPLACE_ME", "initial_value": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"},
}}

On the first run dlt loads everything from initial_value; on every run after that it requests only what changed and appends with write_disposition="merge" if you set a primary key. See incremental loading.

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What does the generated Air France KLM Flight Status pipeline look like?

A standard dlt REST API pipeline — the same code you would write by hand, loading flightstatus and opendata from the Air France KLM Flight Status API into DuckDB:

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import dlt
from dlt.sources.rest_api import RESTAPIConfig, rest_api_resources

@dlt.source
def air_france_klm_flight_status_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "https://api.airfranceklm.com/opendata/flightstatus/",
            "auth": {"type": "api_key", "api_key": api_key, "name": "API-Key", "location": "header"},
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "flight_status", "endpoint": {"path": "opendata/flightstatus/", "data_selector": "operationalFlights"}},
            {"name": "flight_details", "endpoint": {"path": "opendata/flightstatus/{flightId}"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def load_air_france_klm_flight_status_to_duckdb() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="air_france_klm_flight_status_pipeline",
        destination="duckdb",
        dataset_name="air_france_klm_flight_status_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(air_france_klm_flight_status_source())
    print(load_info)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    load_air_france_klm_flight_status_to_duckdb()

Run it with python air_france_klm_flight_status_pipeline.py. The agent iterates on this until it loads cleanly — you review and approve, rather than write it from scratch.

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How do I query Air France KLM Flight Status data in DuckDB?

dlt creates one table per resource. Query the loaded data with Python or SQL — or ask your agent to, through the MCP server's execute_sql_query tool.

Python (pandas DataFrame):

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import dlt

data = dlt.pipeline("air_france_klm_flight_status_pipeline").dataset()
df = data.flight_status.df()
print(df.head())

SQL:

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SELECT * FROM air_france_klm_flight_status_data.flight_status LIMIT 10;

See querying your data with dataset and exploring it in marimo notebooks.

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How do I deploy the Air France KLM Flight Status to DuckDB pipeline in production?

The pipeline runs locally, which is ideal for prototyping and one-off analysis. When you need it on a schedule, monitored on every load, and shared with your team, deploy the same dlt code on the dltHub platform — no infrastructure to maintain. The prompt above already ends with "run it on dltHub", so your agent can take it there directly.

• Deploy & schedule — run the pipeline as a managed job with automatic retries.
• Monitor — observable job queues, alerting, and load metrics for every run.
• Transform — promote raw Air France KLM Flight Status loads into governed, documented models.
• Visualize & share — explore data in notebooks and publish live dashboards instead of static screenshots.

Book a demo →

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What other destinations can I load Air France KLM Flight Status data to?

dlt loads into any of these — only the destination argument changes:

Set dlt.pipeline(destination="snowflake") and add credentials in .dlt/secrets.toml. On the dltHub platform the same pipeline runs against a managed Iceberg lakehouse. See the full destinations list.

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Next steps

• Ready for production? Book a demo of the dltHub platform →
• dlt LLM-native workflow docs
• REST API source reference
• Join the dlt community on Slack