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The Airline Intelligence panel (internal id airline-intel) is the dashboard’s civil-aviation command surface. It tracks a user-curated watchlist of airports and routes, surfaces delay and cancellation severity, tracks specific aircraft, and can quote real-time flight prices across a date grid. Built as six tabs so each aspect renders on its own without cross-panel context switching.

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What the panel shows

Six tabs under a shared airport + route watchlist control:
Tab idShows
opsAirport ops summary per watchlist airport — delay / cancellation severity via FlightDelaySeverity (normal / minor / moderate / major / severe, colour-bucketed).
flightsLive flight instances at watched airports, with per-flight status badges (scheduled / boarding / departed / airborne / landed / arrived / cancelled / diverted / unknown) and delay stats.
airlinesPer-carrier ops: CarrierOps — delay rate, cancellation rate, on-time performance.
trackingLive aircraft positions (PositionSample[]) for tracked tails, plus an individual-flight status lookup.
newsAviation-relevant news items (AviationNewsItem[]).
pricesGoogle Flights quotes for a specific itinerary and a date-grid of cheapest-day prices across a range.
TABS is declared as ['ops', 'flights', 'airlines', 'tracking', 'news', 'prices'] as const in src/components/AirlineIntelPanel.ts:54. Watchlist comes from aviationWatchlist.get() — the first 8 airports and the first route are seeded on mount. Panel id is airline-intel; canonical component is src/components/AirlineIntelPanel.ts. Title resolves from i18n (panels.airlineIntel).

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How you reach it

  • Cmd+K: type airline, flight, or an IATA code.
  • Availability by variant: registered and enabled by default in the full/geopolitical (priority: 2), tech (priority: 2), finance (priority: 2), and commodity (priority: 2) variants. Not present in the happy variant. Source: 'airline-intel' entries in FULL_PANELS (:104), TECH_PANELS (:280), FINANCE_PANELS (:471), and COMMODITY_PANELS in src/config/panels.ts.

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Data sources

Eight RPCs back the six tabs via @/services/aviation:
  • fetchAirportOpsSummary, fetchAirportFlights, fetchCarrierOps
  • fetchAircraftPositions, fetchFlightStatus
  • fetchAviationNews
  • fetchGoogleFlights, fetchGoogleDates
All are backed by the Aviation service (/api/aviation/v1/*) — see the API reference below.

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Refresh cadence

Three distinct refresh paths in src/components/AirlineIntelPanel.ts:
  • Auto-refresh timer — the panel constructor sets a 5-minute setInterval (5 * 60_000) that calls refresh(), which reloads the ops tab and the currently-active tab. Source: the constructor around line 173 (setInterval(() => void this.refresh(), 5 * 60_000)).
  • Tab switch — switching to ops, flights, airlines, tracking, or news triggers loadTab(tab) only when that tab’s cache is empty. Repeated switches to an already-loaded tab repaint from memory without a refetch.
  • Prices tab — explicit fetch only — the prices tab is deliberately excluded from both the tab-switch and auto-refresh paths. Prices load only on an explicit search-button click (the refresh() helper skips prices with if (this.activeTab !== 'prices') void this.loadTab(this.activeTab) around line 291; the tab-switch guard is commented prices tab: never auto-fetch — only on explicit search button click around line 287).

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Tier & gating

Free. No premium flag in any variant registration. RPCs are public.

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API reference

  • Aviation service — 11 RPCs: airport delays, ops summary, airport flights, carrier ops, flight status, aircraft tracking, aviation news, Google Flights search / date grid.
  • Related map layer: Military & Civilian Flight Tracking for the live flights overlay that the tracking tab complements.