flights {nycflights23}

Flights data

Description

On-time data for all flights that departed from the given airports.

Format

A data frame with columns:

year, month, day

Date of departure.

dep_time, arr_time

Actual departure and arrival times, UTC.

sched_dep_time, sched_arr_time

Scheduled departure and arrival times, UTC.

dep_delay, arr_delay

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

hour, minute

Time of scheduled departure broken into hour and minutes.

carrier

Two letter carrier abbreviation. See get_airlines to get the full name.

tailnum

Plane tail number.

flight

Flight number.

origin, dest

Origin and destination airport. See get_airports for additional metadata.

air_time

Amount of time spent in the air, in minutes.

distance

Distance between airports, in miles.

time_hour

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

Source

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