ArticleScientific reports2021
Statistical characterization of airplane delays.
Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Quantifying Deviations from Gaussianity with Application to Flight Delay Distributions.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Analyzing spatio-temporal dynamics of dissolved oxygen for the River Thames using superstatistical methods and machine learning.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Airport time profile construction driven by flight delay prediction.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neural complexity through a nonextensive statistical-mechanical approach of human electroencephalograms.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Characteristics of flight delays during solar flares.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Additional flight delays and magnetospheric-ionospheric disturbances during solar storms.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aviation industry is of great importance for a globally connected economy. Customer satisfaction with airlines and airport performance is considerably influenced by how much flights are delayed. But how should the delay be quantified with thousands of flights for each airport and airline? Here, we present a statistical analysis of arrival delays at several UK airports between 2018 and 2020. We establish a procedure to compare both mean delay and extreme events among airlines and airports, identifying a power-law decay of large delays. Furthermore, we note drastic changes in plane delay statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, we find that delays are described by a superposition of simple distributions, leading to a superstatistics.
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