Aircraft Type

A segmentation available for Seat Capacity dataset, referring to the type of aircraft scheduled during the time period of interest, according to IATA’s official aircraft list.

Alliance

A segmentation available for Seat Capacity dataset, referring to the airline alliance to which the carrier belongs to. Four categories are available: Star Alliance, Sky Team, One World, and No Alliance.

Analysis (a group of parameters)

A group of parameters to be defined for the query result display details. It includes:Scale (for analysis time period), (Geographical) Granularity (for Trip Origin/Destination markets).

Arrival Dates

A date parameter for queries, referring to the time period during which the travellers arrive at the destination(s) as defined in the Point of Interest. It is the primary analysis period to be defined under Arrivals Module in all sections except Booking History.

Arrival Time

An advanced segmentation available in the Point of Interest group of parameters for queries in Arrivals module for Actual Air Reservations dataset and Seat Capacity dataset, referring to the local arrival time at the Destination(s). Categories are by hours and availability is subject to your contractual specifications.

Cabin

A segmentation in the Flight Attributes group of parameters, indicating the seating class booked for the traveller’s trip: Economy, Business, and First classes. The highest cabin class of the entire trip is displayed. ForwardKeys receives cabin code information for more than 400 airlines from a third-party company and applies it to the air reservations in their database. Cabin information is also available in Capacity data.

Calendar Heatmap

An interactive tool available in all analysis views. Calendar heatmap displays the time scale selected and is colour-coded with the performance of each of the time units (displayed in days, weeks, months, quarters, etc.). Selecting a specific time period in the calendar heatmap adjusts the query result display accordingly. When the time scale is daily granularity, specific days of the week can be included/excluded by checking/unchecking the boxes next to their names. When the time scale is daily or weekly granularity, calendar heatmap can be switched to a more aggregated granularity (daily, switch to weekly or monthly, weekly switch to monthly) using the drop-down menu in the top-left corner.

Capacity Changes (Events)

ForwardKeys processes the Seat Capacity dataset along with the air reservation query of your interest and displays important changes in scheduled flights to help you better understand the travel trends. This process is still a beta version and we advise you to analyse more details in Capacity section, if you have purchased the dataset.

Carrier Type

A segmentation available for Seat Capacity dataset, identifying airlines services status. Four categories are available: Legacy, Low Cost Carrier, Partially Charter, and Unknown.

Code Share(s)

A segmentation available for analysing Seat Capacity dataset. It only appears when a specific airline is selected in the top bar of your window, Code Shares will be available among the Segmentations. The Code Shares segmentation displays all marketing carriers of the selected airline on selected route(s).

Dates

Time period to be defined before launching a query. Depending on the section that the user is using, Travel Dates (Arrival Dates or Departure Dates), and/or Loading Dates need to be defined.

Departure Dates

The period during which the travellers depart from their Trip Origins. It is the primary analysis period to be defined under Departures Module in all sections except Booking History.

Departure Time

A segmentation available referring to the local departure time at the Trip Origin(s). Categories are by hours and availability is subject to your contractual specifications.

Departures

The number of travellers departing from their Trip Origin(s) (airport / city / region / country / sub-continent), according to the confirmed air reservations that are recorded in the reservation systems feeding ForwardKeys.

Destination

The locations (airport / city / region / country / sub-continent) where travellers stay for a certain length of time during their trips, according to confirmed air reservations that are recorded in the reservation systems feeding ForwardKeys. The Length of Stay can be defined from transfers, day trips, to truly staying one or more nights at the destination. ForwardKeys usually follows the UNWTO definition for destination: the location where travellers spend at least one night.

Direct Flight

A flight with the same flight number. It might include one or more legs/stops, but the pax does not change aircraft.

Domestic Arrival/Departure

The Arrival/Departure whose trip origin and destination are located within the same country.

Evolution

A mode available in the Capacity section to analyse the build-up of Capacity for the specific travel date or period. It shows how airlines add or cancel the scheduled flights/seats until the actual travel date.

Exclude Domestic

A useful option in any location filter (Trip Origin, Destinations, Inbound Getaways, and Further Destinations) to exclude domestic arrivals/departures. It is very useful when the analysis interest only focuses on international travel.

Flight Destination

The last location of a scheduled direct flight. Note that direct flights may have one or more stopovers in between flight origin and flight destination.

Flight Details

An advanced export option in the tool bar in the Capacity section. Flight details are exported in one excel file (.xls), including: flight numbers, Flight Origin, Flight Destination, flight schedule, Flight Duration, weekly frequency, code shares, etc.

Flight Duration

Time spent (calculated in minutes) from Flight Origin to the final destination, which can be either Leg Destination or Flight Destination, excluding stopover time.

Flight Origin

The first departure location of a scheduled direct flight. Note that direct flights may have one or more stopovers in between flight origin and flight destination.

Full List

A mode available in the Capacity section to analyse changes in Capacity for the specific travel date or period. It shows a summary and a full list of route information that can be filtered by airline, route, season changes and more

Granularity

An essential parameter to define the geographical granularity to what extend that the location information is shown. Options can range from airport terminals level to subcontinent level, subject to the contractual specifications. Granularity parameter is available for Trip Origin, Destination, Point of Sale, Inbound Gateways, Further Destinations, Combined Steps, etc.

Leg Destination

The first destination of a flight with no stopovers from your selected Point of Interest or the first stopover location after your selected Point of Interest.

Leg Origin

The first departure location of a flight with no stopovers to your selected Point of Interest, or the last location where they do a stopover prior to your selected Point of Interest.

Loading Dates

A date parameter in the Capacity section, referring to the period in which ForwardKeys updates the capacity database with the latest available schedule information of the airlines.

Mode

There 2 modes of analysis available in the ForwardKeys database for Capacity are Evolution and Full list.

Module

There are two modules available to display Seat Capacity dataset: Arrivals and Departures. There is one module called Routes POI to POI module, which usually is not shown for customers to use.

Point of Interest (POI)

The location where the query is focused on. It is also the name of a group of parameters to be set up to launch the query.

• In Arrivals or Overnights module, Point of Interest is the Destination.
• In Departures module, Point of Interest is the Trip Origin (equal to Source Market).

Scale

A parameter to define the time scale to what extend that the information is shown. Options can range from daily to yearly level of details, subject to contractual specifications.

Seat Capacity

A dataset and a section for analysing direct commercial flights, scheduled between two airports (or, as per ForwardKeys cities, regions, countries, subcontinents), displayed by number of total flights or number of total seats available on the aircraft. Updated on a weekly basis, Seat Capacity dataset includes information about legacy carriers, low cost carriers and some charter flights.

Segmentation

Available itinerary details in ForwardKeys that can be analysed. Essential ones for Seat Capacity dataset include: Leg destination, Flight destination and Nb. stops.

Stopovers

A segmentation and a parameter available in Seat Capacity dataset, referring to the stopovers in certain direct flights.

Traffic Dates

A date parameter for queries. It is the primary analysis period to be defined under Routes Module in all sections except Booking History.

Travel Dates

A general date parameter for the queries. It matches its more specific names under different modules: Arrivals Dates, Departures Dates, Overnights Dates, Nights Out Dates, Traffic Dates, and Stage of Trip Dates.

VAR% Y0 vs Y-1

Variation versus the previous period, expressed in percentage format.

Y0

The current travel or booking period that is being analysed. It corresponds to the time period defined in the first row in any date selector.

Y-1

The time period to be defined to compare with Y0. It corresponds to the time period defined in the second row of any date selector. This is typically the period one year before the period being analysed.

Y-o-Y (Year-over-Year, Year-on-Year)

When comparing the results of the selected period with the same period during previous year, the variation calculated is a year-on-year variation.
This is also an option of result display in ForwardKeys database in Travel History and Booking History sections for Actual Air Reservations dataset. It is the default option. Switch to Advanced parameter panel view can will show the Y-o-Y (Year over Year) label appear above all the query parameters and allows to choose the Time Series option.

Weekly Frequency

A segmentation available in the Seat Capacity dataset, referring to the number of times per week the flight is scheduled to operate under the same flight number.