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DOT/BTS Domestic Airfare (Airline Origin/Destination Survey)

Quarterly average domestic airfare by route, plus DB1B 10% ticket sample

Feed detail
Measures
Quarterly average domestic airfare by route, plus DB1B 10% ticket sample
Source
transtats.bts.gov (Bureau of Transportation Statistics), free public database/CSV
Access
csv
Cadence
monthlyupdates roughly monthly
Thesis
Official ground-truth government airfare data; use to calibrate faster commercial airfare-scrape signals and catch route-level fare inflation the CPI airfare index (a national aggregate) smooths over
Maps to
CPI Airline Fares component
Crowdedness
commodity
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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