AirTrail

AirTrail is an open-source personal flight journal that transforms your aviation history into an interactive visual experience. Whether you are a frequent business traveler, an aviation enthusiast, or someone who simply wants to remember every place a flight has taken them, AirTrail provides a private, self-hosted platform to record, visualize, and analyze every journey. It runs as a web application backed by PostgreSQL, deployable on any VPS with Docker, and puts your travel data entirely under your control.

Common Use Cases

Frequent flyers use AirTrail as a definitive logbook — capturing airline, flight number, aircraft type, seat position, and departure and arrival times for every trip. Aviation enthusiasts log each unique aircraft they fly, building a catalog of tail numbers and fleet types over time. Families share a single AirTrail instance so every member can maintain an independent flight journal without paying for multiple accounts on a commercial service. Travel bloggers embed their public flight map into posts to show readers exactly where their journeys have taken them. Travelers who have accumulated years of history on platforms like MyFlightRadar24 or Flighty migrate their full archive into AirTrail with a single import and gain a self-hosted home for all future flights.

Key Features

• Interactive world map: Every flight appears as an arc on a global map, building a visual record of all the routes you have flown and destinations you have reached.
• Detailed flight logging: Capture airline, flight number, aircraft type, seat class and number, departure and arrival airports, and times for each individual flight.
• Travel statistics: Aggregate analytics covering total distance, countries and airports visited, airlines and aircraft encountered, and cumulative time in the air.
• Multi-source imports: Bring in existing flight history from MyFlightRadar24, Flighty, App in the Air, TripIt, JetLog, and byAir formats.
• Multi-user support: Each registered user maintains a private flight log and statistics; owner and admin roles provide full instance management.
• Public sharing: Shareable links let anyone view your flight map without registering, useful for sharing travel milestones.
• OAuth and OpenID Connect: Integrate with any OIDC provider for single-sign-on login, with optional auto-registration and auto-login.
• Light and dark mode: Responsive design with theme toggle works across desktop and mobile browsers.
• Airline icon uploads: Attach custom airline logos to flight entries for a polished, visually rich personal logbook experience that goes beyond plain text records.

Why deploy AirTrail on Hostinger VPS

Commercial flight tracking services collect your travel history and tie it to a subscription. Hosting AirTrail on a Hostinger VPS means your entire aviation logbook stays on infrastructure you own — no third party retains your routes, timestamps, or travel patterns. A single VPS handles AirTrail and its PostgreSQL database comfortably, and the named Docker volumes ensure both your upload files and flight records survive container restarts and future updates without any data loss. Traefik provides automatic HTTPS certificate provisioning so your logbook is encrypted in transit from the moment deployment completes. As your history grows over the years, upgrading VPS resources keeps the experience fast without any changes to your configuration or existing flight data.