Flights data

Description

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

Usage

nycflights

Format

A tbl_df with 32,735 rows and 16 variables:

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 in the nycflights13 package for more information or google the airline code.

tailnum

Plane tail number.

flight

Flight number.

origin,dest

Origin and destination. See airports in the nycflights13 package for more information or google airport the code.

air_time

Amount of time spent in the air.

distance

Distance flown.

Source

Hadley Wickham (2014). nycflights13: Data about flights departing NYC in 2013. R package version 0.1.

Examples

library(dplyr)

# Longest departure delays
nycflights |>
  select(flight, origin, dest, dep_delay, arr_delay) |>
  arrange(desc(dep_delay))

# Longest arrival delays
nycflights |>
  select(flight, origin, dest, dep_delay, arr_delay) |>
  arrange(desc(arr_delay))