US Air Travel Metric Model

by | Jul 8, 2022 | Airlines | 0 comments

Readers may be familiar with a valuable dataset from the US DoT called the DB1B. This is the famous 10% ticket sample dataset.  It is a huge dataset- our model is 688Mb.  Please be patient as you go through it, as reaction times might be slow.  There is a large amount...

Experimenting with a new metric

by | Apr 27, 2022 | Airlines | 0 comments

Regular readers know that several times we have focused on airline flight operations on a per-minute basis. We have especially focused on costs per minute.  You may recall that we previously estimated the US airline industry operated at $98 for flight ops/minute.  The...