U.S. Domestic Flights by State* in 2015
Focus on an individual state by clicking the state's arc.
This chord diagram shows the number of flights between two states in the United States. The width of a chord is proportional to the relative frequency of flights between the two states. The chords are directional: the color of the chord matches the color of the state that has more going out of than into that state. For example, there are more people flying from Arizona (AZ) to California (CA) than CA to AZ. Units of the axis is in ten millions. All 50 states and Puerto Rico are represented in this visualization, but some states are trivial because there are significantly less flights coming from or into these states.
*Includes Puerto Rico.
Data source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics and United States Census Bureau
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Flight Prices over Time (1993-2015)
Hover over each point on the colored lines to Learn more about the selected airport in that year.
This graph depicts flight prices (inflation adjusted) over time for the top 8 airports in the US. The airports are Los Angeles, Chicago O'Hare, Denver Itn'l, Hartsfield Atlanta, Logan Boston International, Seattle Itn'l, and Dallas Itn'l. These airports were determined by outgoing passenger traffic in 2015. Hovering over each dot uncovers a pop-up box with the following information 1) The Aiport Name and Year 2) The Average Price that year for outgoing domestic US flights 3) The state GDP growth to depict the health of the state that year 3) How many domestic US flights left that aiport in that year to depict demand in that airport. Lastly, max and min lines appear with the max average flight price and min flight price of that airport from 1993-2015. This helps to see how the current dot relates to the min and max.
Data source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Flight Delays in 2015
In this graph the same 8 airports are plotted at their actual geographic coordinates. You can pan and zoom the map by dragging and using the scroll wheel. Click on an airport to see the outgoing routes. Click on that same airport again to hide the routes. The color and weight of the route indicates the average delay over the selected time period in 2015. To change the month you are viewing, drag the slider above the map. To switch from averaging over all flights in the same month to averaging over all flights on the same day of the week, tap on the radio buttons above the slider. You will find that generally in the colder winter months there is longer delay, most likely due to weather conditions; while in the summer and fall, the delays are relatively low. In addition, flights departing on Monday have slightly longer delays.
Data source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics