When to fly to get there on time? Six million flights analyzed

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Every US flight in 2013 analysed

Nothing particularly unusual about the data, as time goes by delays accumulate. Its the reason you should pick a morning appointment for the doctors or why the Oscars overruns.

For an airport operator its best to maximise the utilisation of slots available and just let customers suffer the delays.

> Filtering out flights between midnight and 6AM that leaves us with [..]

Why do they do this?

Likely because there are very few flights between midnight and 6AM. This is because many cities have regulations on flights at early morning hours due to the noise generated.

Recently I did a similar project, except I chose to only look at flights from JFK to LAX (also only for 2013). I was looking more widely at flight time and what affects flight time. Despite these differences, I did come up with fairly similar data.

http://daviddworken.com/varianceInFlightTimeJFKtoLAX-2013.pd...

In my analysis I included the midnight to 6 am data on the chart, even though I had a grand total of 32 data points for that section.

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