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# Airline Intelligence

> Six-tab aviation surface — airport ops, live flights, carriers, aircraft tracking, news, and cheapest-date pricing on a user-curated watchlist.

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.

## What the panel shows

Six tabs under a shared airport + route watchlist control:

| Tab id     | Shows                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `ops`      | Airport ops summary per watchlist airport — delay / cancellation severity via `FlightDelaySeverity` (`normal` / `minor` / `moderate` / `major` / `severe`, colour-bucketed).                                 |
| `flights`  | Live flight instances at watched airports, with per-flight status badges (`scheduled` / `boarding` / `departed` / `airborne` / `landed` / `arrived` / `cancelled` / `diverted` / `unknown`) and delay stats. |
| `airlines` | Per-carrier ops: `CarrierOps` — delay rate, cancellation rate, on-time performance.                                                                                                                          |
| `tracking` | Live aircraft positions (`PositionSample[]`) for tracked tails, plus an individual-flight status lookup.                                                                                                     |
| `news`     | Aviation-relevant news items (`AviationNewsItem[]`).                                                                                                                                                         |
| `prices`   | Google 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`).

## 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`.

## Data sources

The panel uses `@/services/aviation`, which wraps the generated
`AviationServiceClient`. Flight-delay alerts can arrive through bootstrap
hydration first; the tab-specific calls below are direct REST RPCs.

### Backed by endpoints

| Capability                           | Endpoint                                            | Panel path                                                                                |
| ------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Airport delay alerts                 | `GET /api/aviation/v1/list-airport-delays`          | Bootstrap-backed disruption layer and service fallback.                                   |
| Airport ops summaries                | `GET /api/aviation/v1/get-airport-ops-summary`      | `ops` tab for watched airports.                                                           |
| Airport flight instances             | `GET /api/aviation/v1/list-airport-flights`         | `flights` tab for one watched airport.                                                    |
| Carrier delay / cancellation rollups | `GET /api/aviation/v1/get-carrier-ops`              | `airlines` tab for watched airports.                                                      |
| Specific flight status               | `GET /api/aviation/v1/get-flight-status`            | `tracking` tab lookup.                                                                    |
| Aircraft position tracking           | `GET /api/aviation/v1/track-aircraft`               | `tracking` tab and civil-airspace map workflows.                                          |
| YouTube live stream metadata         | `GET /api/aviation/v1/get-youtube-live-stream-info` | Service RPC for aviation live-stream metadata; not part of the six-tab auto-refresh loop. |
| Legacy flight price quotes           | `GET /api/aviation/v1/search-flight-prices`         | Direct quote search path with provider/degraded-state metadata.                           |
| Aviation news                        | `GET /api/aviation/v1/list-aviation-news`           | `news` tab.                                                                               |
| Google Flights itinerary search      | `GET /api/aviation/v1/search-google-flights`        | `prices` tab explicit search.                                                             |
| Google Flights date grid             | `GET /api/aviation/v1/search-google-dates`          | `prices` tab cheapest-date grid.                                                          |

## 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).

## Tier & gating

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

## API reference

* [Aviation service](/api/AviationService.openapi.yaml) — generated OpenAPI for the 11 RPCs above.
* Related map layer: [Military & Civilian Flight Tracking](/military-tracking) for the live flights overlay that the `tracking` tab complements.
