You can bet on airport delays now
Kalshi, a prediction market platform, just filed to let you gamble on whether airports will experience delays. They're using FlightAware and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics as the official settlement sources, so it's not completely unhinged.
Which is wild because we've now invented financial instruments for literally every observable phenomenon on Earth. Next you'll be shorting your own mental health.
AIRPORTDELAY from @Kalshi has been filed. They already have markets listed for individual airports, this is broader in scope and would allow for any airport along with - being based on % of total flights vs. number of flights - two source agencies for settlement, primary is @FlightAware and secondary is Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) making for more robust settlement criteria https://www.cftc.gov/IndustryOversight/IndustryFilings/TradingOrganizationProducts/61631
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