Row30 Data Desk

We use an organizational byline for this work rather than a personal one. That is a common convention for data and statistical reporting, and it is the honest description of how these pieces are made: the analysis comes from a pipeline and a published ruleset, not from one reporter’s notebook. Where a named individual actually writes a piece, that piece carries their name instead.

Editorial responsibility for everything published under this byline rests with Row30’s founder and editor, who can be reached through our contact page. Row30 is an independent publisher and takes no money from airlines.

• Every statistic is drawn from a federal dataset Row30 pulls itself, and stored with its source, period, sample size, uncertainty, caveats and licence before any article is written.
• Before a page can publish, an automated check matches every number in the draft against the stored source row. If a digit does not reconcile, the article is blocked. The same check confirms the period is stated, the citation is carried verbatim, the licence permits the use, and no comparative claim outruns its stated uncertainty.
• The check also enforces the rules on our editorial guidelines page: no causal language on a correlation, no ranking across overlapping intervals, no advice, no outcome promises, and no testimonials.
• The exact query behind each figure is named on the page, and the underlying government file is linked, so any reader can reproduce the number or show us we are wrong.
• Corrections are logged publicly and dated, and propagate to every surface the figure appeared on.

The rules those checks enforce are written out in full on our editorial guidelines page.

Stating the limits is the point. An organizational byline is only honest if the masthead describes what the organization actually is.

Row30 publishes guest analysis from people who work in or around aviation: reporters, former regulators, consumer advocates, and academics. Contributors get their own byline and their own profile page, and they keep editorial control of what they write. We will not put someone else’s name on our work, and we will not put our name on theirs.

If you have something you want to write from this data, get in touch.

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  July 25, 2026
• The airlines that collected over $1,000 in bag fees for every dollar they spent lobbying
  July 25, 2026

Data questions, corrections, and press: contact Row30. Every correction we make is logged in the public corrections log.