Which Flight Will Get You There Fastest?

By Ritchie King and Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight analyzed 6 million flights to figure out which airports, airlines and routes are most likely to get you there on time and which ones will leave you waiting.

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Updated Nov 24, 2015

Based on data from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The analysis includes U.S. airports that have at least one scheduled route at least every other day. For each airport, we included airlines that fly at least five routes from that airport.
Design and development by Ritchie King and Matthew Conlen. Statistical model by Nate Silver. Additional contributions by Dhrumil Mehta.

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