US Domestic Flight Records with Passenger and Capacity Data, 1990-2009
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Description
Over 3.5 million records of US domestic flights from 1990 to 2009, sourced from OpenFlights. The dataset includes origin and destination airport codes, cities, passenger counts, seat availability, flight frequency, distance, and city population data from the US Census. The original data was collected by Jacob Perkins.
Use Cases
Modeling passenger demand between city pairs based on population and distance.
Analyzing airline route network efficiency using flight frequency and seat capacity data.
Studying long-term trends in US domestic air travel volume over the 20-year period.
Correlating city population size with air traffic volume for urban planning.
Strengths
Contains over 3.5 million records, providing substantial scale for analysis.
Covers a 20-year time range (1990-2009), enabling longitudinal studies.
Includes derived metrics like passenger count, seats, and flights per route.
Limitations
Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
OpenFlights website, with original collection credited to Jacob Perkins.
Collection Method
Likely aggregated from public transportation records or government sources.