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I try to minimise my flying, and have done all my travel without flying for the past couple of years, in order to minimise my environmental impact. I've decided to allow myself a holiday by flight next Christmas, but to still minimise environmental impact, I want to limit the flying to one leg (one leg down, one leg back). I will travel overland to and from the airports (even if this takes 1–2 days). Therefore, I'm looking for a flight search engine that will give me a reliable answer as to direct flights to a particular airport for a particular date. Where can I find such a search engine?

Case in question: flights to either Santa Cruz de La Palma or Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain on Friday 21 December. Googling gave me http://www.flyhere.com but I know the answer is incorrect, because I know both Berlin-Tegel and Amsterdam-Schiphol have direct flights to this airport on 2012-12-21, however neither are listed there. Either I travel a short distance by train and fly directly from Scandinavia to Tenerife and take a ferry from there, or I travel further south by train and fly directly to La Palma (probably from Germany).

So: where can I find a flight timetable for direct-flight arrivals at a particular airport at a particular date?

gerrit
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I don't know where to find a flights schedule, but for questions like this a flight matrix is also a good option.

For example on http://matrix.itasoftware.com, you can select multiple departures, for example in your case, all airports in Southern Sweden and also multiple possible destinations, such as Tenerife and Santa Cruz de la Palma. Then you can also limit the number of stops, the exact date of travel, etc. Using this search engine I was able to find at least the non-stop flight from Berlin to Santa Cruz. As an additional benefit, this search engine also caluclates your CO2 footprint.

Here you can see a screenshot:

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As you can see, there are direct flights from Hamburg, Berlin, Nuremburg, Frankfurt, etc.

RoflcoptrException
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Bear in mind that aggregators won't necessarily carry all providers or all flights. So the best way to get a definitive answer is to do the following:

  • First, assuming the destination airport is a reasonably well-known one, try Wikipedia to get a list of airlines and their destinations from that airport. E.g. Tenerife North, Tenerife South, Santa Cruz de La Palma. Often the airport's website also has this information, or at least a list of airlines servicing it.
  • Cross-reference those with where you want to travel from. In this case, Tenerife South shows a number of Scandavian flights with Norwegian Air Shuttle.
  • Use that airline's website to determine whether it meets your requirements.

It's not quite as nice as RoflcoptrException's answer (and I'd probably recommend using that myself as an initial step), but for a definitive answer for a general case this works well.

dlanod
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As per your question in terms of calculating and analyzing your flights I recommend using flightmapper.io. This tool is quite handy in analyzing your routes and mapping your flight which help in setting a limit for your travels annually

Mahmoud Desouky
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