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Editorial policy

How this site is written

Instajet publishes reporting on a market where most figures circulate without a source attached. This page sets out how our own are produced — including where a language model does the drafting, and what has to happen before an article is marked as checked.

Production

How an article is made

Each step below is a real stage in the pipeline, and steps three and four are represented by columns in the database rather than by an assurance on this page.

  1. 01

    Sourcing

    A piece starts from named published sources: manufacturer specifications, regulator notices and filings, operator announcements, trade press reporting, and open datasets such as OurAirports. Every source used is recorded against the article as a URL, a title, a publisher and the date it was accessed, and that record is what renders in the Sources panel on the page.

  2. 02

    Drafting

    Most articles in the archive are drafted by a large language model working only from the sources gathered in step one, under instructions that forbid supplying a figure the sources do not contain. The model identifier used for a draft is stored against the row. Some articles are written by a person; the process from step three onwards is identical either way.

  3. 03

    Fact-checking against sources

    Before an article can be marked reviewed, an editor reads it against every source cited and checks each factual claim back to the source that supports it. Any figure that cannot be traced to a cited source is removed rather than softened, and any claim that is contested between sources is either attributed to the source making it or dropped.

  4. 04

    Publication and review state

    An article can be published before step three has happened, and when it is, the page says so. The strip under every headline carries one of three states — unreviewed, approved, or flagged — and the state is a column in the database, not a badge an author sets by hand. Nothing about the layout changes between them, so an unreviewed piece cannot be mistaken for a checked one.

  5. 05

    Corrections

    A corrected article keeps its URL and records the date it was last modified, which is emitted as dateModified in the page's structured data and drives its entry in the sitemap. A piece an editor has read and does not stand behind is marked flagged, which is visible on the page, rather than being quietly unpublished.

Artificial intelligence

Where AI is used, and where it is not

A large language model drafts most articles on this site. It works from a set of sources assembled for that specific piece and is instructed to use no figure those sources do not contain. It does not browse freely while drafting, and it is not asked to recall facts from its training data.

A model is never the last step before publication for a piece marked as reviewed. Approval is a human act: an editor reads the draft against every cited source and either corrects it, removes the unsupported part, or declines to approve it. The review state is what records which of those happened.

AI is not used to generate quotations, to produce photographs of real aircraft or people, or to fill a gap in a dataset with a plausible value. The hero image on each article is a generated graphic derived from the article’s own identifier — it is deliberately abstract, so that it cannot be mistaken for a photograph of the subject.

Standards

What we commit to

No unsourced figures
If a number cannot be traced to a named published source, it does not appear. Where the reporting wants a figure we do not have, the article says the figure is not available rather than estimating it, interpolating it, or borrowing it from a comparable aircraft or operator.
No invented quotes
Every quotation is reproduced from a source that published it, and attributed to that source. Nothing on this site paraphrases a person into quotation marks, and no quote is synthesised to illustrate a point.
AI involvement is disclosed per article
The review state on each page tells a reader whether a human has checked that specific article against its sources. It is set per row, so the disclosure is about the piece in front of them rather than about the site in general.
Sources are listed, not just claimed
The sources panel on each article lists every source the piece was written from, with the publisher and the date accessed, and links out to each one. Outbound source links carry rel="nofollow", because a citation is a reference and not an endorsement.
Prices are never quotes
Pricing on this site is modelled from public data and presented as an estimate. Instajet does not sell flights, does not broker charter, and nothing published here is an offer capable of acceptance.
Commercial relationships do not affect coverage
No operator, broker or programme can pay to appear in an article, to change what one says, or to have one removed. If that ever changes, any paid placement will be labelled as such on the page it appears on.

Right now

The state of the archive

Queried from the same column the badge on each article reads, so this cannot drift from what the site is actually publishing.

Editor-approved

0

Read against every cited source by an editor.

Not yet reviewed

8

Drafted from cited sources, awaiting an editor.

Flagged

0

Read by an editor and questioned. Visible on the page.

8 published articles in total.

Corrections

Tell us we got it wrong

If a figure on this site is wrong, we want to know which one and what the correct value is. Corrections go to corrections@instajet.ai. Include the article URL and, where you can, the source that supports the correction — it is the fastest route to a fix, because it is the same check an editor would have to run anyway.

Other enquiries are on the contact page.