What our guides cover
Travel guides describe airports, routes between cities, destinations, the airports near a city or in a country, and comparisons between two airports. Research & data stories analyse the same data across the world. Our trip tools run the same calculations for the places you choose.
Guides help you decide before you search. They never show fares — live prices appear only when you run a search.
Where the data comes from
- OurAirports open data (OurAirports (David Megginson and contributors); Public Domain) — Community-maintained global airport database: names, IATA/ICAO codes, coordinates, elevation, runways and official links.
- Natural Earth 1:110m land (Natural Earth (via the world-atlas package); Public Domain) — Coastline geometry used to draw AMZBooking’s dotted world map.
- Natural Earth 1:50m admin-0 countries (Natural Earth; Public Domain) — Country outlines used to draw the maps on country airport pages.
- Natural Earth 1:10m populated places (Natural Earth; Public Domain) — Locations of about 7,300 populated places (a representative point, roughly the city centre), with time zones and Wikidata ids.
- AMZBooking editorial curation — groupings such as which airports serve a city and destination themes. These are flagged for human review before a page that relies on them can be indexed.
Our airport data currently covers 3,244 large and medium airports with scheduled passenger service and an IATA code, retrieved on . Full details are in Data & methodology.
Every fact keeps its source
Each changeable fact we store — an airport’s codes, its location, a distance — carries its provenance: the source, the publisher, the date it was retrieved or reviewed, the type of fact, and a confidence and status. Guide pages list their sources, and calculated findings say how they were worked out. A fact marked disputed or retracted, or held with low confidence, can’t appear on a page we ask search engines to index.
What we calculate
- Distances and bearings are great-circle values between airport reference points (method). They are not the distance flown or a flight time.
- Nearby airports are airports with scheduled service within a stated radius (method).
- Counts, rankings and findings state what was counted and over which set. A ranking orders one measurable attribute, such as elevation or runway length — never quality, service or popularity (method).
What we don’t publish
We don’t invent prices, schedules, baggage fees, entry requirements, ratings or endorsements. When we don’t have reliable data for part of a page, we leave it out and say so, rather than fill the gap.
Freshness
Every kind of fact has a refresh window, from a couple of days for fast-changing facts to years for ones that rarely change. A fact that passes its window without being re-checked is removed from indexable pages rather than presented as current (details).
Review before indexing
A page is published for visitors first and stays marked noindex until it qualifies. To qualify it must:
- score at least 80 out of 100 on our quality checks (or a stricter bar for its type) — data completeness, sourced and unique facts, original calculations, freshness, distinctiveness from similar pages, depth, links and metadata;
- have no blocking issue, such as a missing source or a near-duplicate of another page;
- be reviewed by a person. Each new type of page is reviewed page by page; once at least 20 pages are approved, a reviewer can approve the type as a whole. After that, a 2% sample is re-checked by a person, and the type falls back to noindex if more than 10% of those checks fail.
Only pages that qualify go into our sitemaps. Read more in our editorial policy and how pages qualify for search.
Commissions don’t change guides
Partners may pay us a commission when you book through our links. That never decides what a guide says, which airports it lists or how it ranks them (how we make money).
Spotted an error?
Tell us through the contact page and include the page address. We review reports, fix confirmed errors and update the page date (corrections policy).