About this site

A sample flight itinerary builder and a set of planning calculators, built around one rule: nothing here should ever be mistakable for a real airline booking.

Last updated 6 September 2026

What this is

This is a free browser tool that lays out a flight itinerary — routes, dates, times, cabin, passenger name — into a clean, printable document, alongside calculators for airport codes, great-circle distance, time zones and multi-city routings.

Everything runs in your browser. There is no account, no server-side storage of anything you type, and no database of generated documents. The airport reference data is baked into the site at build time from a public-domain dataset.

The position this site takes

"Dummy ticket" tools occupy an uncomfortable space. The underlying need is often legitimate — people planning trips, comparing routings, or trying to work out what a consulate actually wants. The tools that serve that need frequently blur into something else: documents designed to be mistaken for real bookings.

This site draws the line explicitly, and the design enforces it rather than merely stating it:

  • Every generated document carries a SAMPLE — NOT VALID FOR TRAVEL watermark that cannot be turned off
  • The booking reference and e-ticket number fields read SAMPLE — NOT ISSUED. No plausible codes are ever generated
  • There is no boarding pass output, no barcode, no QR code
  • No airline logos, letterheads or branding are reproduced
  • The guides say plainly, and repeatedly, where a sample itinerary is the wrong tool

The reasoning is set out in full in acceptable use and in the PNR guide. In short: a six-character code in a booking-reference box is the single element that converts a planning document into something that can be passed off, and it adds nothing at all if you are genuinely planning a trip.

Who it is for

  • Travellers sketching a routing before committing to a fare
  • Anyone trying to understand the difference between a reservation, a ticket, an itinerary and a boarding pass
  • Travel agents and trainers who need realistic layouts without exposing real passenger data
  • Developers and designers building or testing travel interfaces
  • People trying to work out what documentation a visa application or an airline actually requires — and who will find here that the answer usually comes from the consulate or the carrier, not from us

Where the data comes from

Airport names, codes, coordinates and elevations come from OurAirports, released into the public domain. This site pins a snapshot at build time and narrows it to airports with scheduled service — 4,133 of them as of the current build. Time zones are derived from each airport's coordinates. Distances are great-circle calculations.

The full picture, including known limitations, is in data sources and methodology.

How it is funded

The tools are free and there is no paid tier, because the obvious monetisation for a site like this — charging for documents that look more convincing — is precisely what it refuses to do.

Corrections

If something here is wrong — an airport record, a code, an explanation, or a description of a requirement that has changed — please tell us. Corrections to factual content are made promptly, and regulatory content is reviewed on the schedule described in methodology.