Airlines Departure Delays from 1987 to 2013

A subset of a larger dataset containing information about airline departure delays from 1987 to 2013. The data includes temporal, carrier, airport, and distance features, with preprocessing performed on time-related columns. It is published under a CC0 1.0 license on the OpenML platform.

Use Cases

• Predicting departure delay duration based on month, day, and scheduled time.
• Analyzing delay patterns by airline carrier using the UniqueCarrier code.
• Investigating the relationship between flight distance and departure delays.
• Modeling seasonal or weekly trends in airline punctuality.
• Comparing delay likelihoods between specific origin and destination airport pairs.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range from 1987 to 2013.
• Includes key operational features like carrier, airport codes, distance, and scheduled times.
• Time features have been preprocessed into separate hour and minute columns.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

OpenML

Collection Method

Subset of a larger dataset on airline delays; original source not specified.

Time Range

1987 - 2013

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Likely United States, based on the FAA carrier code reference, but not explicitly stated.