Flights
Flights is a data page on the Travel desk of Glassbox Auditing. Flight search, the status of any flight or airport board, every tracked aircraft on a live map, the cheapest places to fly from a city, and how airfares are moving: BLS airline fares, DOT average fares by route, TSA checkpoint counts and the desk's own daily tracked fares. Airfares are a line in the consumer price index, and passenger numbers move with jobs and incomes.
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What is on this page today?
- Cheapest flight Atlanta to Orlando, 21 days out: $52, up 126% on a week — a week earlier $23 · Frontier Airlines (Frontier Airlines, 7 Nov 2026)
- Cheapest flight Dallas to Denver, 21 days out: $83, up 69% on a week — a week earlier $49 · Frontier Airlines (Frontier Airlines, 7 Nov 2026)
- Cheapest flight Dallas to Denver, 60 days out: $34, down 55% on a week — a week earlier $75 · Frontier Airlines (Frontier Airlines, 7 Nov 2026)
- Cheapest flight Houston to Mexico City, 60 days out: $150, up 58% on a week — a week earlier $95 · VivaAerobus (VivaAerobus, 7 Nov 2026)
- Cheapest flight Singapore to Sydney, 60 days out: $541, up 130% on a week — a week earlier $235 · AirAsia, AirAsia X, Jetstar Airways (AirAsia, AirAsia X, Jetstar Airways, 7 Nov 2026)
- Cheapest flight Singapore to Sydney, 60 days out: $547, up 51% on a week — a week earlier $363 · AirAsia, AirAsia X, Jetstar Airways (AirAsia, AirAsia X, Jetstar Airways, 7 Nov 2026)
- Florida (Fort Lauderdale, FLL): 7 FAA ground stops and ground delay programs in the last 7 days — 5 ground stops, 2 ground delay programs · 64.8 hours with a stop, program or delay listed, longest spell 15.7 hours · 7 since 14 Oct · Most common reason: thunderstorms (FAA National Airspace System status, 8 Nov 2026)
- New York (New York, LGA): 6 FAA ground stops and ground delay programs in the last 7 days — 5 ground stops, 1 ground delay program · 37.2 hours with a stop, program or delay listed, longest spell 12.6 hours · 12 since 14 Oct · Most common reason: thunderstorms (FAA National Airspace System status, 8 Nov 2026)
- Washington (Seattle, BFI): 6 FAA ground stops and ground delay programs in the last 7 days — 4 ground stops, 2 ground delay programs · 18.8 hours with a stop, program or delay listed, longest spell 6.6 hours · 6 since 14 Oct · Most common reason: other (FAA National Airspace System status, 8 Nov 2026)
- Cheapest flight Chicago to Rome, 21 days out: $308, up 38% on a week — a week earlier $224 · TAP Portugal (TAP Portugal, 7 Nov 2026)
- Massachusetts (Boston, BOS): 5 FAA ground stops and ground delay programs in the last 7 days — 3 ground stops, 2 ground delay programs · 28.2 hours with a stop, program or delay listed, longest spell 9.8 hours · 14 since 14 Oct · Most common reason: thunderstorms (FAA National Airspace System status, 8 Nov 2026)
- California (San Diego, SAN): 4 FAA ground stops and ground delay programs in the last 7 days — 0 ground stops, 4 ground delay programs · 65.0 hours with a stop, program or delay listed, longest spell 13.5 hours · 25 since 14 Oct · Most common reason: VOL:Compacted Demand (FAA National Airspace System status, 8 Nov 2026)
- Florida (Miami, MIA): 4 FAA ground stops and ground delay programs in the last 7 days — 3 ground stops, 1 ground delay program · 51.9 hours with a stop, program or delay listed, longest spell 10.7 hours · 4 since 14 Oct · Most common reason: TM Initiatives:MIT:WX (FAA National Airspace System status, 8 Nov 2026)
- The FAA lists 5 U.S. airports with a closure notice, ground stop, delay or deicing now — 5 closure notices · closure notices include partial closures such as no transient general aviation (FAA National Airspace System status, 8 Nov 2026)
- Airline fares up 22.4% on a year in September 2026 — consumer price index 315.9, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted · +23.4% in August (BLS, 29 Sep 2026)
- Flights arriving 15+ minutes late: 26.9% in August 2026, +4.3 points on August 2025 — 608,389 scheduled domestic flights of the airlines that report to BTS · 1.86% cancelled · 22.6% in August 2025 · cancelled and diverted flights are not counted as late (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 30 Aug 2026)
- Flights from the 15 busiest airports arrived 15+ minutes late 29.6% of the time in August 2026, +5.0 points on August 2025 — Chicago (ORD) was highest at 35% · 1.8% cancelled · cancelled and diverted flights are not counted as late · 24.6% a year earlier (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 30 Aug 2026)
- Southwest Airlines: 29.9% of flights arrived 15+ minutes late in August 2026, +8.5 points on August 2025 — 116,362 flights, 0.8% cancelled · ranked 9 of 12 airlines with 5,000+ flights, lowest late share first · 21.4% in August 2025 (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 30 Aug 2026) LUV
- On the busiest route, Los Angeles (LAX) to San Francisco (SFO), 48% of flights arrived 15+ minutes late in August 2026 — 1,132 flights · bars: the five busiest routes' late share · 24% on this route a year earlier · one direction, all airlines; a route with few flights swings widely (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 30 Aug 2026)
- Delta Air Lines: 21.6% of flights arrived 15+ minutes late in August 2026, +4.6 points on August 2025 — 91,186 flights, 1.0% cancelled · ranked 2 of 12 airlines with 5,000+ flights, lowest late share first · 17.0% in August 2025 (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 30 Aug 2026) DAL
Where does the data come from?
Items on this page come from Frontier Airlines; VivaAerobus; AirAsia, AirAsia X, Jetstar Airways; FAA National Airspace System status; TAP Portugal; BLS; Bureau of Transportation Statistics; U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report. Each item links to its own source. All sources, how items are checked.
What does this page lead to?
- Prices & Inflation (Macro): Airline fares are a line in the consumer price index, so a broad rise in fares adds to services inflation. (moves the same way; the next monthly report; economy scale) Source: BLS consumer price indexes (food at home and away, airline fares, core goods, gasoline, all items), via FRED.
- Company (Companies): Fares times passengers is most of an airline's revenue, so higher fares at steady TSA traffic tend to lift carriers' results. (moves the same way; the next quarterly report; company scale) Source: Yahoo Finance, U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS).
- Stays (Travel): More people flying to a destination means more nights booked there, so busy routes tend to go with higher hotel and Airbnb rates at the destination. (moves the same way; same season; sector scale) Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Budget & Spending (Macro): Each domestic ticket carries the 7.5% federal ticket tax and per-segment fees, which fund the FAA's Airport and Airway Trust Fund, so more flying raises those federal receipts. (moves the same way; months; economy scale) Source: U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement.
What feeds this page?
- Service Outages (Companies): Airlines' booking, check-in and crew systems run on these clouds and software, and the July 2024 CrowdStrike failure grounded thousands of flights. (moves the other way; same day; sector scale) Source: OutageDeck public API (cloud and SaaS provider status, normalized from official status pages).
- Cloud Outages (Global Intelligence): Airlines' booking, check-in and crew systems run on software and cloud providers; a failure there can delay or cancel flights for hours, as the faulty CrowdStrike update of 19 July 2024 did for thousands of flights. (moves the other way; same day; sector scale) Source: Yahoo Finance, U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS).
- Oil & Tankers (Global Intelligence): Jet fuel follows crude and is one of airlines' largest costs, so a supply squeeze at sea raises carriers' fuel bills and, with a lag, fares. (moves the same way; weeks; sector scale) Source: EIA, daily spot prices (Brent, NY Harbor ULSD, Gulf Coast jet; NYMEX futures to April 2024).
- Health (Global Intelligence): An outbreak that brings travel warnings or border health checks cuts bookings to the affected region, as SARS did in 2003 and COVID-19 in 2020. (moves the other way; weeks; sector scale) Source: Yahoo Finance, U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS).
- Military & Airspace (Global Intelligence): Closed airspace over Russia, Ukraine or parts of the Middle East forces longer routes that burn more fuel and time, which adds to carriers' costs and fares on affected routes. (moves the same way; days; sector scale) Source: Yahoo Finance, U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS).
- Wildfires & Hurricanes (Global Intelligence): Airports in a hurricane's path close for a day or more, cancelling passenger flights and holding cargo at hubs such as Miami. (moves the other way; same day; sector scale) Source: FAA, all-cargo airports: landed weight of cargo aircraft by airport.
- Visas & Green Cards (Immigration): Most temporary-visa entries are tourists and business visitors arriving by air, so the count moves with international air travel and airline revenue. (moves the same way; months; sector scale) Source: DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics.
- Oil Stress (Macro): Jet fuel is one of an airline's two biggest costs, so tighter crude or jet refining raises carriers' costs and, with a lag, fares. (moves the same way; weeks; sector scale) Source: EIA, daily spot prices (Brent, NY Harbor ULSD, Gulf Coast jet; NYMEX futures to April 2024).
- Oil to Prices (Macro): Airfares in CPI tend to follow jet fuel within a few months, as carriers adjust fares and capacity. (moves the same way; 1-3 months; sector scale) Source: BLS consumer price indexes (food at home and away, airline fares, core goods, gasoline, all items), via FRED.
- Trains (Travel): Trains and short flights compete on corridors such as Boston-New York-Washington, where Amtrak carries more travellers than the airlines, so higher train fares tend to send some of them to fly. (moves the same way; weeks; sector scale) Source: BLS consumer price indexes (food at home and away, airline fares, core goods, gasoline, all items), via FRED.