Analysis of NYC domestic flights in 2023

Aim

An analysis of the on-time performance of all the NYC domestic flights within the United States in 2023 with following objectives:

1. To investigate the various reasons for delays.

2. To understand the geospatial patterns in the delays.

3. To analyse time-series patterns in the delays.

Data

The anyflights() from the anyflights package is used to obtain data of the domestic flights such that:

• the flights that depart from or arrive at any of the airports that serve NYC region (i.e. LGA, JFK, EWR).

• the flights that were scheduled for throughout 2023.

The steps to download the data are explained in data/README.md.

Important Links

Rendered Quarto book: https://gaurav0502.github.io/us-domestic-flights/

References

• anyflights: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/anyflights/anyflights.pdf