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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

A market’s daily directional passenger volume

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,

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

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”)

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

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.

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

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.’

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

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.

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

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.

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

FlightBI’s product brand, short for Flight Intelligence.

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.