flights: Flights data

Description Usage Format Source

Description

On-time data for all flights that departed CA (i.e. LAX, SAN, SFO, PSP, SNA, OAK, ONT, SJC, ACV, BFL, BUR, CEC, CLD, FAT, LGB, MMH, MRY, RDD,SBA,SMF or SMX) in 2015.

Usage

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Format

Data frame with columns

year, month, day

Date of departure.

dep_time, arr_time

Actual 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 airlines to get name.

flight

Flight number.

tailnum

Plane tail number. See planes for additional metadata.

origin, dest

Origin and destination. See airports for additional metadata.

distance

Distance between airports, in miles.

Source

RITA, Bureau of transportation statistics, https://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236&DB_Short_Name=On-Time


denironyx/caflights documentation built on Dec. 8, 2019, 12:36 a.m.