airportLoc: US Airport Locations
In RobWiederstein/retirementData: US Retirement Location Data

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A dataset containing airport locations for commercial flights.

1	data("airportLoc")

A data frame with 445 rows and 13 variables:

lat: latitude of airport
lon: longitude of airport
location: a three character unique identifier of US airports
rank: an integer that ranks airport by passenger volume
ro: region
st: state
city: city
airport: airport name
s_l: a classification of either 'CS' for 'commercial service' or 'P' for primary
hub: an ordered factor variable specifying size of airport
enplane_2020: number of passengers boarded in 2020
enplane_2019: number of passengers boarded in 2019
pct_change: percent increase/decrease from 2019 to 2020

Data consist of "Enplanements at All Commercial Service Airports." A "commercial service" airport is a publicly owned airport "with at least 2,500 annual enplanements and scheduled air carrier service." U.S.C. §47102(7). "Primary airports" are a commercial service airport with more than 10,000 annual enplanements. U.S.C. §47102(16).

Commercial service airports are further classified by size:

Large Hub – Receives 1 percent or more of the annual U.S. commercial enplanements;
Medium Hub – Receives 0.25 to 1.0 percent of the annual U.S. commercial enplanements;
Small Hub – Receives 0.05 to 0.25 percent of the annual U.S. commercial enplanements;
Nonhub – Receives less than 0.05 percent but more than 10,000 of the annual U.S. commercial enplanements.

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