Aggregation and geo-hierarchy

Xeneta's Air freight platform uses a geographical hierarchy system to organize airports and provide rate aggregation on geographic regions of different size.

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To review our entire geo-hierarchy for air freight, you can access our interactive diagram, or download it in Excel format (132 KB).

Using this geo-hierarchy, Xeneta can help you see the average rate from an entire origin or destination city or country, rather than an individual airport.

How we group airports

Xeneta organizes individual airports into groupings based on how close they are to each other, how similar their rates are, or both.

At the lowest level of the geo-hierarchy is an individual airport, while the highest level is the continent that contains it.

For example, the geographical hierarchy for the Shanghai (PVG) airport in Xeneta looks like this:

World → Asia Pacific → China → East China → Shanghai (PVG)

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Our Advanced add-on has a different regional hierarchy that may not fully align with our main air platform.

If Xeneta doesn't have enough data to provide a rate between two individual airports, it will attempt to find similar valid rates by moving one or several levels up the geo-hierarchy. To learn more about how this process works, see our geo-hierarchy methodology for ocean freight ports.