flight delay statistics

CrowdStrike Outage Effects on Worldwide Air Traffic

July 19, 2024 / airport delay index, crowdstrike, flight delay statistics, statistics

On July 19, 2024, a software update from CrowdStrike caused a major disruption by triggering blue screens of death on Windows machines globally. This incident led to a widespread IT outage that impacted various sectors, including grounding commercial airline flights worldwide, taking Sky News offline, and disrupting 911 emergency call centers.

We decided to take a look at statistics accumulated by AeroDataBox API during the day to see how much was the impact on the worldwide air traffic.

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Flight Delays with Percentiles

July 13, 2024 / flight delay statistics, new features

Our Flight Delays API endpoint now offering delay statistics across multiple percentiles, not just median. This update introduces insights into delay distributions at various levels, from the 5th to the 95th percentile. This way, you will be able to determine by how much the vast majority or minority of flights under a requested number were delayed/early, while “vast majority” and “vast minority” being the terms defined by you.

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Improved flight delay statistics, flight delay brackets and flight locations for FIDS

October 9, 2021 / adsb, FIDS, flight delay statistics, flight location, new features

We have updated our “Flight delay statistics by flight number” endpoint. Earlier delay records of the same flight number were grouped by origins and destinations. This way you could separately see how much the flight is delayed in each airport it departs from or arrives at. From now on, groups are as well segregated by

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