Aviation Resources

How Amazon Air’s rapid growth threatens competition with FedEx and UPS

Amazon Air is still a newcomer to the air cargo space, but Spire’s aviation data shows how they have rapidly grown their operations over the last year. And other strategic decisions, such as transporting third party goods, suggests there is potential for it to compete with FedEx and UPS in future.

Leveraging data to tackle the challenges of the air cargo boom

Demand for air cargo has grown rapidly over the last two years, and this surge has created a number of challenges.

Geospatial intelligence goes global with air traffic data

Flight tracking data is a valuable resource that helps reveal insights about the global movement of people and cargo.

Spire Aviation welcomes Philip Plantholt

With a lifelong passion for aviation and space, Plantholt has a vision of the future. He brings expertise built at some of the world’s leading aviation organizations and a lifelong passion for the space industry.

Improving Transparency Through Air Domain Awareness

Discover how Spire is combining our global space-based ADS-B data with C4ADS’s Icarus Flights tool to bring greater transparency to the aviation domain. Our combined solution provides a premier analytics platform that enables investigators to query uncensored global aircraft registrations, photos, and flight movements.

Get information and insights more quickly through Spire’s knowledge base

At Spire, we want to make sure you have easy access to information that helps you work more effectively. That’s why we’ve set up this knowledge base, making our most important documentation more accessible for customers.

Beyond Flight Traffic: new Air Traffic Data unlocks valuable business opportunities

Discover how incorporating aviation data can boost your business. 7+ examples!

Reimagining Disruption & Tapping into Opportunities Using Air Traffic Data

Whatever industry you work in, the events since the pandemic have disrupted every data model and business operation as we knew it.

Airlines plan for the future of air travel: Better fuel economy and smaller capacity planes are leading the way

The changing landscape of passenger air travel combined with COVID-19 restrictions have left airlines scrambling to find profitable pathways to move forward. One casualty of the pandemic and reduced travelling is large commercial aircraft, like the A380. These large capacity planes have proven difficult to fill, costly to maintain, and carry with them environmental impacts that are challenging to mitigate. Is the future of passenger air travel smaller planes that are more fuel efficient?

How the B747F remains the undisputed workhorse of the global air cargo and logistics sector

Boeing 737 MAX flies again: Data reveals the timeline and pattern in the MAX groundings and relaunch

Air Traffic Data Reveals Flight Traffic Waves At Vital Tourist Destinations And Shift In Airline Strategy

How to get started with GRIB2 weather data and Python

Introduction to numerical weather prediction data. Learn how to work with Spire Weather’s global forecast data in GRIB2 format using Python.