flights {nycflights13}R Documentation

Flights data

Description

On-time data for all flights that departed NYC (i.e. JFK, LGA or EWR) in 2013.

Usage

flights

Format

Data frame with columns

year,month,day

Date of departure

dep_time,arr_time

Departure and arrival times, local tz.

dep_delay,arr_delay

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

hour,minute

Time of departure broken in to hour and minutes

carrier

Two letter carrier abbreviation. See airlines to get name

tailnum

Plane tail number

flight

Flight number

origin,dest

Origin and destination. See airports for additional metadata.

air_time

Amount of time spent in the air

distance

Distance flown

Source

RITA, Bureau of transportation statistics, http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236


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