Basic, Standard and Flex on every route and date you name, with the ancillaries behind them: preferred and standard seat fees, bags, changes. Read from the booking flow, where the fare feeds stop.
Competitor fare monitoring tells a revenue management team what rivals charge on each route and date. Airfare intelligence feeds deliver that at network scale from filed fares and the lowest available fare. Branded fares changed what the number means: Basic, Standard and Flex are different products, and the ancillary fees behind them, seat selection first, decide the total price a passenger compares.
Lightfeed reads the booking flow for the routes you name: every fare family with its inclusions, seat fees by seat type from the seat map, bag and change fees, at the booking windows you set, with history and alerts.
Since change fees disappeared, the fare family is the product: what the seat costs, what the bag costs, what Basic takes away. None of that is in a filed fare.
Infare and ATPCO MarketView report filed and lowest available fares per market. They cannot tell you that a competitor narrowed the step from Basic to Standard on your route this week and threw in the seat, or that it had not last week.
Preferred, standard, extra legroom and exit row each carry a fee that varies by route, date and fare family. The only place it is published is the seat map, five clicks into a booking.
An analyst can shop three routes on a Tuesday. A revenue management team needs every competitor, every route, every departure date, at several booking windows, with a history.
Origin and destination pairs, the travel dates or day patterns, the booking windows (for example 3, 7, 14, 30 and 60 days out) and the competitors to shop.
As an anonymous shopper, per route and date: each fare family's price, what it includes, and the differences between them as the airline presents them.
Seat fees by seat type from the seat map, checked and carry-on bag fees, change and cancellation terms, per fare family. The flow stops before passenger details.
Per route, date and booking window, with the previous read next to the new one. Alerts when a competitor moves a fare family, a seat fee or a bag fee on your routes.
| Field | What we record |
|---|---|
| Fare | Fare family name, total price, base fare and taxes where shown, cabin, flight numbers and times, connection or non-stop. |
| Inclusions | What the family includes and excludes as the airline states it: seat selection, carry-on, checked bag, changes, refunds, loyalty accrual. |
| Seat fees | Fee by seat type (standard, preferred, extra legroom, exit row) from the seat map for that fare family and flight. |
| Bag and change fees | First and second checked bag, carry-on where charged, change and cancellation fee or credit terms. |
| Context | Read time, booking window in days before departure, availability shown, and the page as evidence. |
| View | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Fare family grid | Your families against each competitor's on a route and date: price, step between families, and what each step buys. |
| Seat fee benchmark | Preferred and standard seat fees by competitor, route and fare family, with the history, so the fee is set against the market rather than a guess. |
| Total trip price | Fare plus the seat and bag a defined traveller would buy, so a cheaper Basic with a $40 seat is compared honestly to a Standard that includes it. |
| What changed | Fare family moved, seat fee changed, bag fee changed, family added or removed, since the last read, per route. |
| History by booking window | How each competitor's fares and fees move as departure approaches, per route and travel date. |
| Delivery | The web app, CSV exports, a JSON API for your revenue management system or BI tool, an MCP server for Claude or your own agents, and warehouse delivery to Snowflake, BigQuery or Power BI. |
Fare data providers such as Infare and ATPCO MarketView, flight search APIs and OTA scrapers, and Lightfeed. Most airlines keep the feed and add Lightfeed for the routes where the family and the fees decide the sale.
| Fare data feeds | Flight APIs and OTA scrapers | Lightfeed | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest fare per market | Yes, network-wide | Yes | Yes, on the routes you name |
| Every fare family | Partly, as filed fares | Usually the cheapest shown | Each family with its price and inclusions |
| Seat fees by seat type | No | No | From the seat map, per family and flight |
| Bag and change fees | No | No | Per family |
| History by booking window | Yes | You build it | Yes, per route and travel date |
| Price | Six figures a year | Per request | Enterprise, per route set |
Send us five routes and two competitors. We shop them at three booking windows, read every fare family and the seat map, and walk you through the result on a 30-minute call.
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