A Tale of Two Airports: Exploring Flight Traffic at SFO and OAK

作者：Wickham Charlotte^*

来源：Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2011, 20(2): 291-293.

DOI：10.1198/jcgs.2011.4de

• Airlines
• Airports
• Big data
• Time series

Tackling the airline on-time performance data from the Data Expo 2009 can be intimidating due to its unwieldy size. This paper demonstrates that concentrating on small subsets of the data can still reveal interesting stories. I explore flight traffic at two of the San Francisco Bay Area's major airports. Simple graphical methods raise questions about differences between San Francisco International (SFO) and Oakland International (OAK) airport. Oakland International airport suffers a much lesser drop in traffic after September 11, 2001. This is found to be a consequence of Southwest Airlines accounting for most of the traffic out of OAK, the only carrier to maintain its flight volume after September 11. This article has supplementary material online.

• 出版日期2011-6