Editorial policy
FlyerIntel publishes data-derived analysis. These are the rules it holds itself to.
What gets published
Before any page is published or indexed, it has to pass one test: what does FlyerIntel add that the original source does not? Acceptable answers are historical comparison, cross-source combination, normalization, proprietary scoring, time-of-day analysis, or aggregation nobody else has done. Rewriting an airport’s own description of itself is not an acceptable answer, and pages that can only offer that are not published.
Pages that do not clear the bar — insufficient sample, missing identity data, no calculated intelligence — are marked noindex, follow. They stay reachable for anyone who wants them without diluting the index with thin material.
How statistics are presented
- Every statistic states its source and the period it covers.
- Every derived figure is reproducible from published methodology and public source data.
- Sample sizes are shown, and conclusions below the published threshold are not drawn.
- Rates are always accompanied by the counts behind them.
- Comparisons use the same period, the same definition and the same source for every entity compared.
- Where a metric can mislead — an on-time rate flattered by cancellations, for instance — the counterweight is shown next to it.
Language
We write plainly and avoid inflation. An airport is not “bustling” and a route is not “notorious”. Where the data supports a strong statement we make it directly; where it does not, we say less. Risk is described as risk: “conditions of this kind are associated with a higher chance of delays”, not “your flight will be delayed”.
Correcting mistakes
When we get something wrong we fix it and, where the error was material, we say what changed. Reliability score methodology is versioned, so a change in method is visible rather than a silent shift in the numbers. Reports come in through Corrections and are reviewed.
Commercial content
FlyerIntel carries advertising through Google AdSense. Google selects what to show; FlyerIntel does not sell placement, and no advertiser is told what any reader looked at. Ads are kept out of operational modules — security waits, disruption alerts, parking rates — so that nothing a traveler acts on shares a frame with something sold.
No advertiser or affiliate has any influence over a score, a ranking, or the content of a profile, and none is given the opportunity to review anything before it is published. There is no paid placement anywhere on the site. Should that ever change, it would be labeled where it appears rather than described only here.
AI and automation
FlyerIntel’s statistics are computed by deterministic code from source records, not generated. Page text is written and reviewed by people. Nothing on the site is generated prose dressed up as analysis.