Laravel Airports — Over 10,000 IATA airport codes (LHR, JFK, DXB, …) for Laravel 12 and 13.

• No database required. Look airports up through a facade backed by an in-memory dataset.
• Typed results. Every lookup returns readonly Airport objects in Laravel collections keyed by code.
• Validation rule. new AirportCode accepts known codes only.
• Optional table. Publish a migration and seed an airports table when other tables need to reference airports.

📦 Installation

composer require flairuk/laravel-airports

Requires PHP 8.2 or later with Laravel 12, or PHP 8.3 or later with Laravel 13.

Laravel discovers the service provider and the Airports facade automatically.

🚀 Usage

use FLAIRUK\Airports\Facades\Airports;

Airports::find('lhr');           // Airport { id: 4329, code: "LHR", name: "Heathrow", countryCode: "GB" }
Airports::findOrFail('LHR');     // throws ItemNotFoundException for unknown codes
Airports::exists('JFK');         // true
Airports::findById(4329);

Airports::all();                 // Collection<string, Airport> keyed by code
Airports::inCountry('GB');       // airports in the UK
Airports::search('heathrow');    // matches on name or exact code
Airports::codes();               // ['AAA', 'AAB', ...]

Select options

Airports::options();             // ['LHR' => 'Heathrow', ...] sorted by name
Airports::options('id');         // [4329 => 'Heathrow', ...]

Validation

use FLAIRUK\Airports\Rules\AirportCode;

$request->validate([
    'origin' => ['required', new AirportCode],
    'destination' => ['required', new AirportCode, 'different:origin'],
]);

AirportCode ignores case but different does not, so LHR and lhr would pass as different airports. Uppercase both fields first (for example in a form request's prepareForValidation()) when that matters.

Dependency injection

The facade resolves a singleton FLAIRUK\Airports\Airports, which you can type-hint instead.

💾 Database table (optional)

php artisan airports:install             # publish config + migration, then ask to migrate and seed
php artisan airports:install --migrate   # migrate and seed without asking
php artisan airports:seed            # insert / update (safe to re-run)
php artisan airports:seed --prune    # also delete rows no longer in the dataset

You can also call the seeder from your own DatabaseSeeder:

$this->call(\FLAIRUK\Airports\Database\AirportsSeeder::class);

Query the table through the bundled Eloquent model:

use FLAIRUK\Airports\Models\Airport;

Airport::code('LHR')->first();
Airport::inCountry('GB')->orderBy('name')->get();

The table name and connection come from AIRPORTS_TABLE and AIRPORTS_DB_CONNECTION, or from the published config.

🔄 Upgrading from dev-master

Version 1.0 is a rewrite. Breaking changes:

Row ids and columns (code, name, country_code) are unchanged, so existing tables and foreign keys stay valid.

🧪 Testing

composer test

📄 License

MIT. See LICENSE.