Independent by design.
AFID exists to give airport financial data the same quality of infrastructure the rest of finance already takes for granted, and to keep it honest.
AFID began with a simple observation: airport performance data is centralized, standardized, and everywhere, but airport financial data lives in scattered PDFs that only a handful of specialists ever read end to end. The analysts, airports, and advisors who depend on those documents deserve the same quality of infrastructure the rest of finance takes for granted.
So we built it: a corpus of every U.S. commercial airport's primary financial documents, an extraction discipline that preserves each airport's individuality instead of flattening it, and a terminal that makes the whole thing searchable, comparable, and citable. AFID is built and operated by an independent aviation analytics team. We sell the data terminal, and nothing else.
What AFID is
What AFID is not
The independence matters because the data does. A benchmark is only useful if the people it measures cannot lean on it, and a citation is only worth something if the party providing it has no reason to shade the number. AFID keeps its distance from the entities it covers on purpose.