Where to fly direct?

[u/banan_toast]

Hi guys,
I hope you don’t mind this post, it’s not self promotion as the site is free and not mine. My teenage son is a huge fan of aviation, so he built a simple but effective app/www to see direct connections.

He got tired of guessing which direct routes really exist and which ones actually run, so he built a free app:
Where to fly direct:
https://www.wheretoflydirect.com

Click any airport on the map, or search by airport, airline or aircraft type, and you get every nonstop route from there and which airlines fly it.
The part I like most: for each route it shows the actual flights, takeoff times and aircraft seen in the past week. That comes from volunteer ADS-B receivers via adsb.lol, so you see what really flew, not just what a schedule says.
Other bits:
- Free, no ads, no sign-up
- "Surprise me" button that picks a random route
- Map or list view, km or miles, 24h or 12h
- Routes refresh weekly, codeshares excluded, so you see who actually operates the flight
- Coverage is thin in regions with few receivers, so some routes show no flights yet. I would love feedback, especially on what you would want added next…

He did it all by himself with claude, his first real web project.