Importing Your Past App in the Air Flights into Flighty Without Manual Entry

Importing Your Past App in the Air Flights into Flighty Without Manual Entry

Tracking flights in Flighty is great, but adding years of past flights manually? Not so much. If you missed the chance to export from Up in the Air when that was an option, you might be stuck entering everything by hand.

I had a PDF with my entire flight history but no way to import it easily. After testing different approaches, I found a simple way to extract and format the data properly for Flighty, without needing to code or mess with spreadsheets. Here’s how I did it.

What You’ll Need

  1. DeepSeek – An AI tool that extracts structured data from text files and PDFs.
  2. Flighty – The app where you’ll import the data.
  3. Your Flight History – A PDF, document, or email containing your past flights.

Step 1: Extracting the Flight Data

Since Flighty doesn’t support direct imports from most sources, I needed a way to pull my flight details from the PDF. Here’s how I did it:

  1. Upload the PDF to DeepSeek

    • Open DeepSeek and upload your file.
    • Ask it to extract flight details like departure, arrival, date, flight number, and times.

  2. Review the Output

    • DeepSeek provided a clean list of all my flights.
    • It handled multi-leg trips well and didn’t drop any details.

I initially tried ChatGPT for this, but it missed flights and scrambled some data. DeepSeek kept everything intact, so it was the better option.

Step 2: Formatting the Data for Flighty

Flighty requires a specific format for imported flights. Using DeepSeek, I structured my data into a .txt file using this format:

None;Seat;None;None;None;None;search;Airline;FlightNumber;Aircraft;Origin;Destination;DepartureTime;ArrivalTime;DepartureTimeActual;ArrivalTimeActual;CreatedDate

Example Entry:

None;14C;None;None;None;None;search;EY;1261;None;CPT;JNB;2022-11-11T13:35:00;2022-11-11T15:35:00;2022-11-11T13:35:00;2022-11-11T15:35:00;2023-07-10T12:30:28

I used placeholders for fields like seat numbers when I didn’t have them. Once all flights were formatted, I saved the file as .txt.

Step 3: Importing the Data into Flighty

  1. Open Flighty and go to the import feature.
  2. Upload the formatted .txt file.
  3. Check the imported flights to make sure all details are correct.
  4. Save the changes, and that’s it—your full flight history is now in Flighty.

Final Thoughts

This method saved me hours of manual entry. If you have years of flights to import, it’s an easy way to get them into Flighty with minimal effort.

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