About Taya Flights

Taya tracks every kind of flight — commercial, charter, helicopter tours, bush planes, glacier landings, the seaplane you took once on vacation. The more you log, the more your map comes alive.

Enriched flight data (scheduled & actual times, flight track, aircraft type & registration, etc.) is automatically available for flights starting January 1st, 2011, including most commercial flights and certain non-commercial flights. Older flights and other unusual flights can be added manually as custom flights (see below).

Personal flight data— class of service, seat, booking code, notes — can be tracked for each flight. Costs & upgrades are coming in a future release.

Taya currently supports up to 5,000 flights per user. The underlying infrastructure can support substantially more; we'll raise the limit if and when needed.

Taya supports flight data in three types of flights: standard flights, custom flights, and override flights.

Standard flights: Standard flights (the default) are automatically enriched with data on flight schedule, flight route, etc. Once you add a standard flight to your flight log (e.g., by searching for a flight number and date), the app will add the available flight details, and the data will be updated (e.g., with delay information and aircraft registration) when the flight ends. All app users see the same flight data for standard flights (but not your personal data, such as seat number).

Custom flights: Custom flights are flights that you add manually to your flight log (e.g., in cases where the flight is not found in Taya's database). All of the flight data — airline, flight number, schedule, aircraft, etc. — is set manually, and will not be updated automatically. Your custom flight data is private to you, and not shared with other app users.

Override flights: Override flights combine a standard flight with custom data. They are branched from a standard flight, and then allow you to override specific fields — e.g., if our data shows a flight as marketed & operated by SkyWest but it was actually marketed by United and operated by SkyWest, you can specifically override the marketing airline to United. Non-overridden fields will continue to be updated automatically, e.g., the overridden United/SkyWest flight will be automatically updated with actual time of departure and aircraft registration.

There are four fast ways to log a flight, and none of them involve filling out a 15-field form.

Type it.Open Add Flight and type something like “United 2664 last Tuesday” — Taya figures out the rest, filling in departure time, aircraft type, actual flight path, and more.

Import it. Bring years of existing history at once via CSV. Taya supports exports from Flighty, myFlightradar24, OpenFlights.org, Alaska Airlines, and United Airlines. You can also build your own using Taya's CSV format, or import a CSV aligned with the FlightMemory.comdata model (contact me for an export script — FlightMemory doesn't offer one directly). More CSV formats are on the way, and Apple Wallet & Google Wallet pass import is on the roadmap.

Chat it. Connect an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT to Taya and let it add flights on your behalf — or search and summarize your flight history in conversation. See AI Assistants (MCP) below for setup.

The importer will occasionally not find certain flights in the enriched database (codeshares, ADS-B blocking, pre-2011 flights, etc.). In that case, it falls back to creating a custom flight from the data provided in the CSV or email.

Airline metrics are primarily calculated by marketing airline, with breakdowns by operating airline available on the airline detail page. E.g., a flight operated by SkyWest but marketed by United will be counted as a United flight, but you can also see how much of your travel on United was operated by SkyWest.

Note that marketing airline detection is not perfect; some flights (particularly older flights) will show up solely under the operating airline. You can manually override the marketing airline for a given flight if desired.

Some less common airlines won't yet show up in the "Add Flight" airline dropdown. If you instead search by route or aircraft registration, you should be able to find your flight, and that airline will subsequently show up in the airline dropdown.

Taya supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting you connect AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to your flight log. Ask questions like “how many countries did I visit last year?” or “list every date I entered and exited the UK in the past 5 years” — useful for visa applications, tax residency, or just satisfying curiosity.

Your assistant can view travel stats, search and filter your flights, and add new flights to your log on your behalf. Just say something like “log my United flight from SFO to JFK yesterday” and Taya handles the lookup and confirmation.

To connect, add Taya as a custom MCP server in your AI assistant using this URL:

Sign in with your Taya account. Many modern AI assistants — including Claude.ai on the web and Claude Desktop — let you add a custom MCP server by URL and then sign you in through a browser. In Claude, go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL above, and complete the Taya sign-in prompt that opens in a new tab.

Or connect with an access token. Some MCP clients (like Claude Code) don't yet support browser sign-in and authenticate with a token instead. Generate an API access token in your User Settings and pass it as a bearer token when registering the MCP server.

Taya has primarily been tested on Safari to date, and should run well on both Safari desktop and Safari mobile (including as an iOS web app). There has been some testing on Chrome. Your mileage may vary on other browsers; please send feedback if you run into compatibility issues.

The app currently needs an internet connection to be used. Offline browser support may be added in the future.

User authentication is currently available via email & password or Google account. Other single-sign on account types will be supported in a future release.