Originally Posted by
CanadianMike
Was listening to a podcast recently on Jetblue... I think there was mention of some mandatory data sharing requirements about ticket sales?
Could just be US domestic data though. I imagine global data sharing would be complex and fraught with privacy limitations etc...
that's US domestic, via a dataset called DB1B, administered by the FAA's Bureau of Transportation Statistics. freely available online. if you have US citizenship, you can request to the same dataset, but for international destinations.
there is limited transborder stuff for AC and other Canadian airlines in the dataset, if I recall correctly. It's not reliable and is considered useless noise
there are other flyertalkers who sometimes dive into the DB1B dataset and post about the previous quarter's trends in other subforums. on occasion, some blogger from bloomberg or business insider who thinks it'll be cool to dissect the data will massage their own narrative and post about it but then never really do more analyses afterward.
and of course, there's better proprietary data out there!