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Unfortunately, it's fairly difficult to make any concrete conclusions from flight time, especially at a time resolution of one minute. The jet stream and other
by coherentpony 12y ago
Unfortunately, it's fairly difficult to make any concrete conclusions from flight time, especially at a time resolution of one minute. The jet stream and other weather processes affect flight time by more than a minute. This also holds for mechanical reasons as well, since airplanes that have squawked 7700 will almost certainly be given landing priority, leaving other airplanes in the air for longer while they wait their turn.
- nikhizzle 12y agoI agree. I did the best I can by using the median over all flights from the past 12 months. But yes, there are a lot of irregular operations which can throw any conclusions to the wind. That said, when I was exploring this data I found that delays etc were much less frequent that I perceived.