Dominant Airline

The dominant marketing or operating airline is determined based on all flight segments a passenger takes during a trip. It represents the airline that contributes most significantly to the itinerary. For example, consider a passenger traveling from SYR to SYD

Directionality

Directionality refers to which directions to include on a report: only origin to dest (“directional”); both origin to dest and dest to origin, independently (“bidirectional”); both added up (“bidirectional total”); or both averaged (“non-directional”)

Leakage

A measure of local passengers’ propensity to use an alternate airport in the general vicinity of a given airport.

QSI – Quality of Service Index

QSI is an analytical method used to allocate estimated demand across multiple competing itineraries on a given origin–destination (O&D) pair. The process involves identifying all viable routing options from the flight schedule—considering carriers, flight numbers, times of day, aircraft types,

Parent Airline

In some cases, flights are operated by a partner airline under a wet lease agreement. In these situations, the airline operating the flight is referred to as the ‘metal operator,’ while the marketing or ticketing airline is the ‘parent operator.’

Operating Airline

The operating airline is the carrier that physically operates the flight—it’s the logo on the aircraft you’re flying on. The ticket number typically begins with a 3-digit prefix known as the plating or validating carrier code, such as 016 for

Marketing Airline

Airlines often sell tickets under one brand that are really for another airline’s services. The seller is known as the “marketing airline”. It’s the airline whose flight number and 2-letter code are on your ticket.

WAC

WAC stands for “World Area Code”. It is a 3-digit code defined by the US Department of Transportation. For example, 450 = Italy. WAC codes are grouped by region, as indicated by the first digit, as follows: 0=USA, 1=Central America

POO – point of origin

It refers to the airport or city from which a passenger originated, on their first trip. For example, if a passenger flies JFK-LHR, then a week later, LHR-JFK, the point of origin, for both trips, is JFK. Normally, the POO

Catchment Area

Catchment Area is defined as a group of ZIP codes (or CSDs in Canada) surrounding an airport where, all things being equal, it is expected that passengers will select that airport as their point of origin for travel.

Host Airport

The Host Airport refers to the IATA code of the airport being studied. In most cases, it is either the origin or destination airport in the OD record. However, on the leakage dashboard, the Host Airport and a specified Drive

Pax

Pax refers to the number of passenger trips. For example, if one person traveled from A to B five times during the selected period, the Pax count would be 5. A round trip from A to B and back to

Visitors

Visitors are travelers originated from other cities than the host city, i.e., the POO (point of origin) field doesn’t equal to the host airport or city.

Residents

Residents are travelers originated from the host airport, i.e., the POO (point of origin) field equals to the host airport or city.

O&D

True O&D is where a passenger is really coming from and going to, without regard to the connecting points along the way. Almost all Fligence ZIP-OD reports and dashboards are based on O&D data.

Fligence

FlightBI’s product brand, short for Flight Intelligence.

What should I do if my dashboards appear blank?

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How does TSA data differ from T100 or DB1b data?

The TSA throughput number includes everyone going through the screening machines at each airport security checkpoint. The majority of this traffic is passengers who depart from an airport with a domestic or international flight. The number includes airline crew members

How do TSA collect the throughput numbers?

The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employs about 43,000 transportation security officers (TSOs) who screen over 2 million passengers and their accessible and checked baggage each day at airports in the United States. At the airport level,

What is minimum connecting time?

Minimum Connecting time is the amount of transfer time, agreed upon in advance between airlines and airport authorities, that is considered sufficient for a passenger to make a connection between an arriving flight and a departing flight.

What is the difference between codeshare and interline?

An interline flight is an agreement between airlines to coordinate passengers with an itinerary that uses multiple airlines, without having to check in again or deal with their baggage at the stopover. The interline relationship is between different legs that

Do you provide passenger traffic data by airport terminal?

The most granular level of traffic data we present is at the airport security checkpoint level. In many airports, each terminal has one security checkpoint. However, in some airports, multiple terminals may share one security checkpoint.

Navigators

Persons employed by the air operator primarily for the purpose of exercising the privileges of an FAA flight navigator certificate issued under FAR 63, Subpart C. Flight navigators are responsible for locating the position of an aircraft and direct its

Aircrew Program Designees

Air operator employees authorized to conduct airman certification under aircrew designated examiner program authorized under the provisions of FAR 183.  Do not include persons at a training center authorized under the provisions of FAR 142.55(a). An Aircrew Program Designee (APD)

Pilot Examiners

Persons employed by the air operator designated by the FAA under the provisions of FAR 183, Subpart C, with privileges to conduct practical tests under FAR 61 to qualified  applicants of pilots.

Flight Engineers

Persons employed by the air operator primarily for the purpose of exercising the privileges of an FAA flight engineer certificate issued under FAR 63, Subpart B. A flight engineer, also sometimes called an air engineer, is the member of an

Flight Engineer Examiners

Persons employed by the air operator designated by the FAA under the provisions of FAR 183, Subpart C, with privileges to conduct practical tests under FAR 63, Subpart B, for qualified applicants of airman qualification.

Repairmen

Persons employed by the air operator who have been certificated by the FAA under the provisions of FAR 65, Subpart E, to perform or supervise the maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alteration of aircraft or aircraft components appropriate to the job

Certificated Mechanics

Persons employed by the air operator who have been certificated by the FAA under the provisions of FAR 65, Subpart D, to inspect and perform or supervise maintenance, preventive maintenance, repairs and alternation of aircraft and aircraft systems. The US

Non-certificated Mechanics

Aircraft mechanics employed by the air operator who have not been certificated by the FAA under the provisions of FAR 65, Subpart D.  A non-certificated mechanic must be working under the supervision of a certificated mechanic or repairman as authorized

Designated Inspectors

Persons employed by the FAR 121 or 135 air carrier who are not full time inspection employees, but have specific inspection authority, and who derive their inspection authority through the continuous airworthiness maintenance program of the air carrier under the provisions of FAR

Inspectors

Persons employed by the air operator who either (1) hold an inspection authorization issued under FAR 65.91, but are not working under the provisions of a continuous airworthiness maintenance program of the FAR 121 or 135 air carrier; or (2) have been employed to

Check Airmen

Persons designated by the Administrator as check airman for the air operator under the provisions of FAR 121.401(a)(4), FAR 135.323(a)(4) or FAR 125.295.  Do not include persons in a training center authorized under the provisions of FAR 142.55(a). A check airman is a

Dispatchers

Persons employed by the air operator primarily for the purpose of exercising the privileges of an FAA aircraft dispatcher certificate issued under FAR 65, Subpart C. A flight dispatcher (also known as an airline dispatcher or flight operations officer) assists

Flight Attendants

Persons employed by the air operator primarily to perform duties required by FAR 91.533, FAR 121.391, FAR 125.269 or FAR 135.107. A flight attendant is an individual who works in the cabin of an aircraft that has 20 or more seats and is used by

Other Pilots

Persons employed by the air operator primarily for the purpose of exercising the privileges of an FAA pilot certificate issued under FAR 61.  This person may or may not be qualified and trained as a PIC by the air operator

PIC Captains

Persons employed by the air operator primarily for the purpose of exercising the privileges of an FAA pilot certificate issued under FAR 61 and assigned primary responsibilities for operation and safety of an aircraft during flight.  These persons will be