How to get your flights out of myFlightradar24, FlightMemory and TripIt

In September 2024, App in the Air shut down. Users had until 19 October to export a decade of flight logs. Plenty never saw the announcement, and their history is simply gone — there is no archive, no support address, nothing to appeal to.

That is the whole argument for this article. Export your flight history now, from wherever it lives, while the export button still exists. Not because any particular service looks shaky, but because the cost of doing it is ten minutes and the cost of not doing it is everything.

myFlightradar24

The best-behaved of the three, and the one to copy.

1. Sign in at my.flightradar24.com and open your flight diary.
2. Find the export option in your account settings.
3. You get a CSV — one row per flight, with dates and airport codes.

Keep the file somewhere that is not a browser download folder. It is a complete record of everything you logged and it is genuinely yours.

FlightMemory

The oldest service in this category and the least convenient to leave, which is not a coincidence — it was built before anyone thought of data portability as a feature.

There is an export, but it is awkward, and depending on how much you logged you may find it easier to page through your flight list and copy the table into a spreadsheet by hand. Tedious, but bounded: even a large logbook is an hour.

Do it anyway. FlightMemory has run since the 2000s, which is impressive and is not a guarantee.

TripIt

TripIt is an itinerary organiser rather than a logbook, so it does not really have a "flight history" to export — it has trips, and the flights are inside them.

There is no first-party bulk flight export. What people generally do instead:

• Work down the trips list by hand. Every trip has its flights with dates and routes. It is slower than a CSV, but TripIt's data is unusually clean because it was parsed from confirmation emails rather than typed.
• Use the calendar feed. TripIt can publish your trips as a calendar subscription, and a calendar file is a dated list of flights that most tools can read.
• Go back to the source. Everything in TripIt arrived as an email. If you still have the mailbox it was forwarded from, searching your inbox recovers the same flights in a form you fully control.

Flighty

Flighty exports, and it is an Apple-only app, so this matters mainly if you are moving to Android. Export before you switch phones rather than after — an app you can no longer open is an app you can no longer export from. See the full comparison for what does and does not carry across.

What you can do with the file afterwards

Here is the honest part, and it applies to Orbit as much as to anyone.

Orbit cannot import any of these files. There is no importer yet. A CSV from myFlightradar24 is a list to work down, not a file to upload.

That sounds worse than it is in practice, because a flight only needs three fields:

• Where from
• Where to
• When

Distance, flying time, countries, continents and every milestone are computed from those. So "importing" a 200-flight history by hand is 200 short rows, not 200 forms — and if you sort your export longest-first, the first twenty entries carry most of the distance and most of the milestones.

Why the export still matters even if nothing can read it

Two reasons.

It outlives the service. A CSV on your own disk is readable in thirty years by anything. A logbook inside a company's database is readable for exactly as long as that company chooses.

It is the reference you type from. Rebuilding a history from memory is miserable and inaccurate. Rebuilding it from a file you exported is transcription — a completely different task, and one you can do in front of the television.

The rule worth adopting

Whatever you use next, including Orbit, apply the same test: can you get your data out today, in a format you could read without the app?

If yes, you are a guest with your coat on. If no, you are storing something irreplaceable in a building you do not own — which is, precisely, what App in the Air's users found out in October 2024.

Orbit exports your whole logbook as CSV, and stores it on your device in the meantime. Download now.