The network of passanger flights between airports in the United
States. The data set was compiled based on flights in 2010
December. This network is directed and edge directions correspond to
flight directions. Each edge is specific to a single carrier aircraft
type. Multiple carriers between the same two airports are denoted by
multiple edges.
See information about the included meta-data below.
Usage
USairports
Arguments
Format
A directed igraph graph object, with multiple edges. It has a
‘name’ graph attribute, and several vertex and edge
attributes. The vertex attributes:
name
Symbolic vertex name, this is the three letter IATA
airport code.
City
City and state, where the airport is located.
Position
Position of the airport, in WGS coordinates.
Edge attributes:
Carrier
Name of the airline. The network includes both
domestic and international carriers that performed at least one
flight in December of 2010.
Departures
The number of departures (for a given airline and
aircraft type.
Seats
The total number of seats available on the flights
carried out by a given airline, using a given aircraft type.
Passengers
The total number of passangers on the flights
carried out by a given airline, using a given aircraft type.
Aircraft
Type of the aircraft.
Distance
The distance between the two airports, in miles.
Source
Most of this information was downloaded from The Research and
Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). See
http://www.rita.dot.gov/about_rita/ for details. The airport
position information was collected from Wikipedia and other public
online sources.