alaska_flights: Alaska flights data

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Alaska flights data

Description

On-time data for all Alaska Airlines flights that departed NYC (i.e. JFK, LGA or EWR) in 2013. This is a subset of the flights data frame from nycflights13.

Usage

alaska_flights

Format

A data frame of 714 rows representing Alaska Airlines flights and 19 variables

year, month, day

Date of departure.

dep_time, arr_time

Actual departure and arrival times (format HHMM or HMM), local tz.

sched_dep_time, sched_arr_time

Scheduled departure and arrival times (format HHMM or HMM), local tz.

dep_delay, arr_delay

Departure and arrival delays, in minutes. Negative times represent early departures/arrivals.

carrier

Two letter carrier abbreviation. See nycflights13::airlines to get name.

flight

Flight number.

tailnum

Plane tail number. See nycflights13::planes for additional metadata.

origin, dest

Origin and destination. See nycflights13::airports for additional metadata.

air_time

Amount of time spent in the air, in minutes.

distance

Distance between airports, in miles.

hour, minute

Time of scheduled departure broken into hour and minutes.

time_hour

Scheduled date and hour of the flight as a POSIXct date. Along with origin, can be used to join flights data to nycflights13::weather data.

Source

RITA, Bureau of transportation statistics

See Also

nycflights13::flights.

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