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Travel & Aviation · daily ban:medium tB

Cargo-only flight counts JFK/ORD/ANC

daily count of freighter (cargo-configured) aircraft movements at major cargo hubs

Feed detail
Measures
daily count of freighter (cargo-configured) aircraft movements at major cargo hubs
Source
FlightAware/ADS-B Exchange filtered by aircraft type + FlightRadar24 cargo view
Access
json-api
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
air-cargo volume is a fast-moving proxy for global trade/e-commerce demand, ahead of official trade data
Maps to
FDX, UPS, air-freight forwarders, semiconductor/e-commerce supply chain
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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