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In MUCflights: Munich Franz-Josef-Strauss Airport Pattern Analysis

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Geographical information on (almost) all commercial airports in the world.

1	data(airports)

A data frame with 6344 observations on the following 11 variables.

AirportID: Unique OpenFlights identifier for this airport.
Name: Name of airport. May or may not contain the City name.
City: Main city served by airport. May be spelled differently from Name.
Country: Country or territory where airport is located.
IATA: 3-letter FAA code, for airports located in Country "United States of America". 3-letter IATA code, for all other airports.
ICAO: 4-letter ICAO code.
Latitude: Decimal degrees, usually to six significant digits. Negative is South, positive is North.
Longitude: Decimal degrees, usually to six significant digits. Negative is West, positive is East.
Altitude: Altitude of the airport in feet.
Timezone: Hours offset from UTC. Fractional hours are expressed as decimals, eg. India is 5.5.
DST: Daylight savings time. One of E (Europe), A (US/Canada), S (South America), O (Australia), Z (New Zealand), N (None) or U (Unknown).

A data frame containing information on commercial airports as provided by http://www.OpenFlights.org.

http://www.OpenFlights.org/data.html

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  AirportID                       Name         City          Country IATA ICAO
1         1                     Goroka       Goroka Papua New Guinea  GKA AYGA
2         2                     Madang       Madang Papua New Guinea  MAG AYMD
3         3                Mount Hagen  Mount Hagen Papua New Guinea  HGU AYMH
4         4                     Nadzab       Nadzab Papua New Guinea  LAE AYNZ
5         5 Port Moresby Jacksons Intl Port Moresby Papua New Guinea  POM AYPY
6         6                 Wewak Intl        Wewak Papua New Guinea  WWK AYWK
   Latitude Longitude Altitude Timezone DST
1 -6.081689  145.3919     5282       10   U
2 -5.207083  145.7887       20       10   U
3 -5.826789  144.2959     5388       10   U
4 -6.569828  146.7262      239       10   U
5 -9.443383  147.2200      146       10   U
6 -3.583828  143.6692       19       10   U