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Article: A transaction price index for air travel: research on a price index estimator based on data from a U.S. Department of Transportation survey involves testing unique imputation and across-time matching procedures; the resulting experimental index is compared with the official CPI series and the consumer expenditure deflator series used in National Accounts computations.(Air-Travel Transaction Index)
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- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Special discount airfares, facilitated by the Internet and "frequent-flyer" programs, complicate efforts to measure changes in the price of commercial air travel. Endeavoring to fill their flights, airlines offer a variety of discount fares through several media (credit card points, supermarket coupons, and the like). The official Consumer Dice Index (CPI) for commercial air travel, however, is based on prices listed by the airlines in SABRE, a reservation system used by many travel agencies. Thus, the CPI fails to reflect price changes that may be effected through special discounted prices and frequent-flyer awards. This article reports on a study whose aim was to ...