Closest Airport Finder

Given a list of airports, this program is able to find the closest airport to the location provided.

This script is primarily for the output of Scott's Cheaps Flights emails. SCF, by default sends ALL the FROM locations of a certain deal and it can be hard to decipher which airport is the closest to you.

Up and Running

1. Download this repository

2. Find your latitude and longitude

3. Change in finder.py to reflect these values here:

    LAT_ORIGIN = radians(39.103119) # YOUR LOCATION LATITUDE IN ( )
    LON_ORIGIN = radians(-84.512016) # YOUR LOCATION LONGITUDE IN ( )
   

4. Using the default latitude and longitude reading from list.txt

    list.txt
        Chicago (ORD) - $380
        Los Angeles (LAX) - $377
        Miami (MIA) - $363
        Orlando (MCO) - $467
        Philadelphia (PHL) - $357
        San Francisco (SFO) - $367
        Washington DC (IAD) - $363
   
    The output of python ./finder.py (distance in miles):
   
    {'name': "Chicago O'Hare International Airport", 'distance': 266.8845815350654}
    {'name': 'Washington Dulles International Airport', 'distance': 378.94208318180785}
    {'name': 'Philadelphia International Airport', 'distance': 497.1326007927064}
    {'name': 'Orlando International Airport', 'distance': 760.169505154458}
    {'name': 'Miami International Airport', 'distance': 951.9721985156232}
    {'name': 'Los Angeles International Airport', 'distance': 1904.7198994898595}
    {'name': 'San Francisco International Airport', 'distance': 2039.6227934846734}