India's airfares, measured every hour.
FareSankhya turns millions of live fare quotes into one official airfare price index for the CPI Transport & Communication group.
A price that moves hourly, observed once a month.
CPI collection visits an airfare the way it visits the price of rice — once, on a fixed day. Airfares are not rice. By the time a surveyor records one, the fare has already moved, and the number entering the index is a coincidence of timing rather than a measurement of the market.
FareSankhya reads each route roughly many times a month per booking window, across airline sites and travel agents at once, so the published figure reflects what travellers actually paid.
How a fare becomes a statistic
- Step 01
Scrape
Five airline sites and six travel agents, four sweeps a day, on a fixed basket of six trunk city-pairs.
- Step 02
Clean
Taxes, fees and fare classes normalised to one comparable all-in price; error fares caught by cross-source checks.
- Step 03
Compute
A Jevons index per route, aggregated by a Modified Laspeyres weighted on passenger traffic.
- Step 04
Deliver
Daily, weekly and monthly series published through dashboards and a public API into MoSPI and RBI workflows.
Four audiences, one series
MoSPI & RBI
A defensible input to CPI Transport, and an early read on transport inflation between monthly releases.
DGCA & regulators
Evidence on route-level pricing behaviour, surge patterns and competition on trunk corridors.
The travelling public
A published, independent record of what flying actually costs — and when fares move most.
Researchers
Open historical series and a documented API for academic and press analysis.