Air regional aggregation methodology

When you search a trade lane, Xeneta first looks for compliant data on the exact origin–destination pair you asked for. If there isn't enough data to maintain anonymity, we widen the geography one step at a time (sometimes called a "bump up") until we find a data set that meets our compliance rules.

We bump up in small steps so the benchmark stays as close to your lane as possible. Where no meaningful comparison exists, we show no data rather than a market that is too broad to be useful.

We aim to only bump up to a level of the geo-hierarchy in the same catchment area as the airport originally selected. Because forwarders can truck cargo between nearby airports, rates in these areas tend to be closely related.

Rates and Cargo, Capacity, and Load Factor data follow the same first steps but stop at different points.

Step	Rates	Cargo, Capacity, Load Factors
1	Airport group	Airport group
2	Country	Country
3	Sub-region, where the origin or destination is in Europe, the United States, China or Canada	Sub-region, where the origin or destination is in Europe, the United States, China or Canada
4	No further aggregation - no data is shown	Region, then multi-region, up to one level below World

For rates, we never aggregate above country level, with one exception: Europe, where we bump up to a European sub-region (Northern, Southern, Eastern or Western Europe). Where both ends of the lane sit in the same region, we widen the destination first.

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Click here for more details on the geo-hierarchy structure for Xeneta's airfreight data.