R: Flights data

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

  Actual departure and arrival times, local tz.

sched_dep_time,sched_arr_time

  Scheduled 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 scheduled departure broken into 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, 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, http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236

[Package nycflights13 version 0.2.2 Index]