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Plan and indicators

What the project is working on and what comes next — and how the indicators behind the calculation change. Suggest work through the project's Telegram bot; accepted suggestions appear here credited to their author, if they chose to be credited.

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All series start in January 2025: the calculation rests on full-year 2025 data, and the series share one start date so they can be compared. Longer history is in the research articles.

Share on placeholders

Share of the reference flights' cost that rests on placeholders rather than documents, %

FRA–BCN A320: 31.4 (2026-11-11)SVO–LED A320: 41.4 (2026-11-11)DEL–BOM A20N: 51.7 (2026-11-11)JFK–LAX A321: 52 (2026-11-11)

Lower means more of the calculation stands on documents. The series starts in November 2026; today's point is calculated when the page opens.

Jet fuel

Into-plane jet fuel price by region as the calculation takes it: spot × regional multiplier, USD/t

latest: 2026-11 · click a region in the legend to show or hide it

* Russia: price after compensation to a Russian operator — the month's fuel damper plus the excise refund, at the exchange rate (decision 236), as the calculation takes it. The line is the Centre, the band spans Siberia to the Far East. The latest published damper is 58 421 RUB/t for 2026-09, the excise refund 3 024 RUB/t; until the next month is published the latest one applies.

The multipliers rest on one point or an assumption per region (decision 235): every curve has the spot's shape, only the level differs. A regional series of its own is on the plan.

Source: EIA · fuel research · _ru_damper.yaml

Airport charges by region

Reference A320 turnaround (78 t, 148 pax, July): median over documented tariffs and range, EUR · 2026-11-09

A snapshot at build date, not a series: tariffs change once a year, and the series grows with each new edition. Unofficial community data is not included.

Source: charges research

Air navigation

En-route charge per 100 km for an A320 (78 t), EUR: mean over the continent's zones; the label shows the number of zones

Europe (EUROCONTROL), 41: 80.4 (2026-11)Russia (FAS), 10: 18 (2026-11)

EUROCONTROL rates are not shown zone by zone under their licence — only as a mean. The calculation uses each zone's own rate. Russia — domestic flights of a Russian operator.

Source: EUROCONTROL CRCO · ФАС России

Maintenance by aircraft class

Total maintenance per block hour, US carriers (Form 41), quarterly, block-hour-weighted median, nominal USD

narrowbody: 1 049 (2025-10)regional: 684 (2025-10)widebody: 1 233 (2025-10)

Source: BTS Form 41 · maintenance research

Ownership by aircraft type

Rent + depreciation per aircraft per month, US carriers (Form 41), quarterly, median, nominal USD

B738: 166 524 (2025-10)E75L: 34 424 (2025-10)B38M: 136 986 (2025-10)A321: 214 904 (2025-10)A320: 169 932 (2025-10)B739: 139 468 (2025-10)

Not a single lease rate: owned and leased aircraft at book value together. There is no open series of lease rates by type — we are looking.

Source: BTS Form 41

Updated: 2026-11-11