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Forecasting The Daily Percentage Of Delayed Flights Based On The National Weather Data, Parto Mahmoudi
Forecasting The Daily Percentage Of Delayed Flights Based On The National Weather Data, Parto Mahmoudi
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Flight delays cost airlines and affect passenger’s satisfaction. In this research work, we predicted the daily percentage of delayed flights based on the national weather data using the multiple linear regression and the random forest models. We extracted the passenger flight on-time performance data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the weather dataset from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information for the years from 2015 to 2019. We used the flight dataset for Seattle airport as the origin. We predicted the daily percentage of delayed flights for the Seattle-originated flights based on the features such as weather conditions of …