Flights data

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

data(flights)

Format

A data frame with 3000 rows and 19 variables. The variables are as follows:

year, month, day

Date of departure.

dep_time, arr_time

Actual departure and arrival times (format HHMM or HMM), local tz.

sched_dep_time, sched_arr_time

Scheduled 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.

air_time

Amount of time spent in the air, in minutes.

distance

Distance between airports, in miles.

hour, minute

Time of scheduled departure broken into hour and minutes.

time_hour

Scheduled date and hour of the flight as a POSIXct date.

Source

RITA, Bureau of transportation statistics, <https://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236> "Flights data" in nycflights13 package <https://github.com/hadley/nycflights13>, License : CC0(Public Domain)