Scrutinising airline efficiency by visualising public aviation data

Visualising UK airline data to understand drivers of efficiency and highlight aviation’s environmental impact

Source code: github

Listening to The Guardian’s Today In Focus recently, I was fascinated by the episode ‘The Scandal of Britain’s Ghost Flights’, in which the Guardian’s environment editor Damian Carrington discusses his investigative work looking into ‘ghost flights’. As defined in this piece, ghost flights are flights run at less than 10% of available passenger capacity, and …

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