Freightos Air Index (FAX) is your price benchmark. FAX Pulse shows how the air market is behaving - so you can anticipate moves, not just react. It provides near real‑time signals on demand, supply, bookings, and tonnage to guide planning, timing, and negotiations.

FAX Pulse is built from anonymized, normalized activity across the Freightos network and trusted partners. Signals update frequently and are strongest on major lanes. Use FAX Pulse alongside FAX prices and your My Routes to connect behavior to actual rates.

What each Pulse signal means:

FAX:D - Demand Index: Measures change in buyer interest by counting unique forwarder searches (deduped by origin–destination–weight per 24 hours) from consistently active forwarders. Rising values indicate strengthening demand.

FAX:S - Supply Index: A proxy for airline capacity, based on the percent change in unique airline quotes to general‑cargo searches (standard passenger‑aircraft quotes only, deduped). Higher values suggest more capacity offered; lower values suggest cuts.

FAX:B - Bookings Volume Index: Tracks percent change in confirmed air‑cargo bookings on Freightos from verified, active forwarders and airlines. Rising values indicate stronger conversion and shipment volume.

FAX:T - Tonnage Volume Index: Measures the total weight (tons) of confirmed bookings. It’s useful for capacity utilization - e.g., if bookings are flat but tonnage rises, average shipment sizes are increasing (forwarder consolidation).

How to use it in Terminal:

Open FAX Pulse, choose your region or O/D pair, then select the signal (Demand, Supply, Bookings, or Tonnage). Compare week‑over‑week or month‑over‑month, and overlay insights with FAX price charts and your saved lanes in My Routes.

Use Pulse to time procurement when demand softens or supply loosens, prepare for price pressure when supply tightens or bookings surge, and adjust allocations when tonnage shifts across corridors.

Notes

Treat Pulse as directional market context that complements price benchmarks. Some lanes will have denser signal coverage than others; set a weekly review cadence for consistent, comparable reads.

Need more info or a quick walkthrough? In‑app chat is available to all users, or email terminal@freightos.com.