By Austin Cory Bart acbart@vt.edu Version 2.0.0, created 3/27/2015 Tags: airplane, airports, travel, plane, air, flights, delays, national, united states, transportation
Overview
This dataset is all about flights in the united states, including information about the number, length, and type of delays. The data is reported for individual months at every major airport for every carrier.
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Explore Structure
Each row represents a report from an airport aggregated over each month since 2003.
The number of delays and cancellations due to circumstances within the airline's control (e.g. maintenance or crew problems, aircraft cleaning, baggage loading, fueling, etc.) in this month.
"Late Aircraft"
int
1275
The number of delays and cancellations caused by a previous flight with the same aircraft arriving late, causing the present flight to depart late in this month.
"National Aviation System"
int
3217
The number of delays and cancellations attributable to the national aviation system that refer to a broad set of conditions, such as non-extreme weather conditions, airport operations, heavy traffic volume, and air traffic control in this month.
"Security"
int
17
Number of delays or cancellations caused by evacuation of a terminal or concourse, re-boarding of aircraft because of security breach, inoperative screening equipment and/or long lines in excess of 29 minutes at screening areas in this month.
"Weather"
int
328
Number of delays or cancellations caused by significant meteorological conditions (actual or forecasted) that, in the judgment of the carrier, delays or prevents the operation of a flight such as tornado, blizzard or hurricane in this month.
Key
Type
Example Value
Description
"Names"
str
"American Airlines Inc.,JetBlue Airways,Continental Air Lines Inc.,Delta Air Lines Inc.,Atlantic Southeast Airlines,AirTran Airways Corporation,America West Airlines Inc.,Northwest Airlines Inc.,ExpressJet Airlines Inc.,United Air Lines Inc.,US Airways Inc."
The full names of the carriers that reported in.
"Total"
int
11
The number of carriers that reported flight information during this time period and at this location.
Key
Type
Example Value
Description
"Cancelled"
int
216
The number of flights that were cancelled in this month.
"Delayed"
int
5843
The number of flights that were delayed in this month.
"Diverted"
int
27
The number of flights that were diverted in this month.
"On Time"
int
23974
The number of flights that were on time in this month.
"Total"
int
30060
The total number of flights in this month.
Key
Type
Example Value
Description
"Carrier"
int
61606
The number of minutes delayed due to circumstances within the airline's control (e.g. maintenance or crew problems, aircraft cleaning, baggage loading, fueling, etc.) in this month.
"Late Aircraft"
int
68335
The number of minutes delayed caused by a previous flight with the same aircraft arriving late, causing the present flight to depart late in this month.
"National Aviation System"
int
118831
The number of minutes delayed attributable to the national aviation system that refer to a broad set of conditions, such as non-extreme weather conditions, airport operations, heavy traffic volume, and air traffic control in this month.
"Security"
int
518
Number of minutes delayed caused by evacuation of a terminal or concourse, re-boarding of aircraft because of security breach, inoperative screening equipment and/or long lines in excess of 29 minutes at screening areas in this month.
"Total"
int
268764
$MISSING_FIELD
"Weather"
int
19474
Number of of minutes delayed caused by significant meteorological conditions (actual or forecasted) that, in the judgment of the carrier, delays or prevents the operation of a flight such as tornado, blizzard or hurricane in this month.
