We build independent aviation intelligence.
RouteIQ is an independent aviation intelligence company. Our flagship, AFID, brings the financial data of every U.S. commercial airport into one sourced and verified database. RouteIQ also builds a tool that checks what airlines report against public federal filings.
Airport financial intelligence, in one place.
AFID brings the financial data of every U.S. commercial airport, audited financials, bond documents, rates and charges, and use agreements, into a single sourced and verified dashboard. Primary source documents, linked and page-cited, not summaries of summaries. It is RouteIQ's flagship product.
Checking what airlines report, against the federal record.
RouteIQ also builds a monitoring tool that cross-references public federal filings against the performance airlines self-report. Airlines file one set of numbers with the DOT and report another to the airport, and RouteIQ reads the gap between them, an independent picture built from public data rather than airline claims.
Three products, one independent data source.
The monitoring tool applies three ways, all running on the same public federal filings. This is what each one does.
EAS Reliability Monitor
- Monthly completion factor vs contracted DOT frequency
- Cancellation cause breakdown (carrier, weather, NAS)
- Enplanement eligibility runway projection
- Carrier cross-market benchmarking
ACIP Performance Verifier
- Monthly flight threshold compliance vs ACIP minimums
- Clawback documentation formatted for enforcement
- Down-gauge detection: seats cut without a cancellation
- OTP tracking against contract thresholds
Community MRG Audit
- Pre-invoice departure analysis before each payment
- Departure shortfall documentation with T-100 evidence
- Carrier vs weather cause attribution
- MRG payment exposure estimate
The information asymmetry it is built on.
Three structural facts about the aviation data landscape that RouteIQ's monitoring tool is built on.
T-100 is a parallel federal filing
Airlines file BTS T-100 segment data directly with the DOT every month, completely separate from what they report to you. It is free, public, and not covered by any NDA.
Audit rights exist but go unused
Most ACIP and MRG contracts include a right to audit airline performance data. Directors confirm it is almost never invoked, because it risks the carrier relationship. RouteIQ supplies the cross-reference without that risk.
Others cannot productize this
Bespoke studies run $40,000 to $150,000 per engagement and cannot scale into ongoing monitoring. RouteIQ gives smaller airports the same leverage for a fraction of the cost.
Independent data you can count on.
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One data source. Three use cases.
RouteIQ's performance-monitoring tool. Every tier runs on the same public federal filings; what changes is the contract it supports and the document it produces at the end.
Ongoing monthly monitoring rather than point-in-time studies, formatted for board presentations, DOT submissions, and contract conversations. Each tier maps to a specific kind of airline agreement.
EAS Reliability Monitor
- Completion factor vs contracted frequency
- Cancellation cause breakdown
- Enplanement eligibility projection
- Rebid preparation package
ACIP Performance Verifier
- Flight threshold compliance vs minimums
- Clawback documentation for enforcement
- Down-gauge detection
- Board-ready annual summary
Community MRG Audit
- Pre-invoice departure analysis
- Shortfall documentation with T-100 evidence
- MRG payment exposure estimate
- Renewal leverage documentation
EAS Reliability Monitor
For EAS airport directors. Early warning before reliability decline becomes an enplanement problem.
An Essential Air Service route lives or dies on completed flights. RouteIQ tracks the carrier's completion against its contracted DOT frequency every month, so a reliability slide shows up in your inbox, not in next year's enplanement count.
ACIP Performance Verifier
For mid-size commercial airports. A systematic independent cross-check, with clawback documentation ready when you need it.
Air carrier incentive programs set minimums for a reason. RouteIQ checks each carrier's actual flights and seats against those ACIP minimums every month, and packages the evidence in the format your enforcement conversation will need.
Community MRG Audit
For CVBs, chambers, and EDAs. T-100 is a parallel federal filing, and it is not covered by your NDA.
A minimum revenue guarantee is paid on departures the airline reports. RouteIQ checks those departures against the carrier's own federal T-100 filing before each payment, so you walk into the invoice with the independent number already in hand.
The information asymmetry that makes this possible.
Three structural facts about the aviation data landscape that most airports and community partners do not know, and that RouteIQ is built on.
T-100 is a parallel federal filing
Airlines file BTS T-100 segment data directly with the DOT every month. This filing is completely separate from the performance data they report to you. It contains departures scheduled, departures performed, seats, and passengers by route. It is free, public, and not covered by any NDA.
Audit rights exist but are almost never used
Most ACIP and MRG contracts include a right to audit airline performance data. Airport directors consistently confirm this right is almost never invoked, because doing so risks damaging the carrier relationship that took years to build. RouteIQ provides the independent cross-reference without putting that relationship at risk.
Others cannot productize what RouteIQ does
Many firms run bespoke post-implementation studies at $40,000 to $150,000 per engagement. They are structurally unable to offer ongoing monitoring subscriptions the way we do. RouteIQ gives smaller airports leverage in their contracts for a fraction of the cost.
The company behind AFID.
RouteIQ is an independent aviation intelligence company. We built a performance-verification product, learned from it, and then built AFID.
RouteIQ started with a simple idea: the airline that gets paid to fly a route is usually the same party that reports how well it flew. So we built a tool that cross-references public federal filings against those self-reports, an independent picture built from public data rather than airline claims.
We are also tackling another gap. Airport financial data, the audited statements, bond documents, rates, and agreements, was scattered, inconsistent, and hard to trust. So we built AFID. It is our flagship product, and RouteIQ is the company that owns and operates it.
Both share one discipline: verified answers drawn from primary, public sources, whether the subject is an airline's performance or an airport's finances.
What RouteIQ is
What RouteIQ is not
What has not changed
AFID
The Aviation Financial Intelligence Database, RouteIQ's flagship product.
Where RouteIQ's monitoring tool verifies airline performance, AFID verifies airport finances. It brings the financial data of every U.S. commercial airport, the audited financials, bond documents, rates and charges, and use and lease agreements, into a single sourced and verified dashboard.
The discipline is the same one RouteIQ is built on. Primary source documents, linked and page-cited, not summaries of summaries. Every figure keeps the document and the page it came from, and figures an airport has not published are disclosed rather than estimated. AFID is built for bond analysts, airports, and the consultants who serve them. Intelligence, not paperwork.
Get in touch with RouteIQ.
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Our flagship product. See it live at afidaviation.com.
A tool that checks airline performance against public federal filings. Ask us if it fits your contract.