Normalizing Flight Statuses Across 7 Languages...

When you scrape flight data from airport websites across 85+ countries, you quickly discover that nobody agrees on anything. Not the data format, not the field names, not the status strings. "Departed" is SAL, FLY, CER, AIR, DEP, DEPARTED, Departed, Отправлен, Väljunud, DESPEGADO, gestartet, or partito, depending on which airport website you're looking at. Building MyAirports meant writing a status normalizer that handles all of these — and maps them to a single, predictable enum. Here's how it