Modeling the flight departure delay using survival analysis in South Korea |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics & Business, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;2. Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics & Business, University of Granada, Spain;3. Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics and TiDES Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, United States;2. Department of Civil, Materials and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, United States;3. National Key Laboratory of Air Traffic Flow Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China |
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Abstract: | The air transportation industry in South Korea has been growing since the 2000s. Although the number of air passengers has continuously increased, the flight delay rate has fluctuated from year to year. In this study, a survival analysis was conducted to compare each flight delay in terms of airport/time slot and to evaluate the actual impacts of major variables on flight delays. We performed multiple analyses using survival analysis methodologies, including the Kaplan–Meier estimator, log-rank test, and Cox proportional hazards model. In particular, we applied a turnaround buffer as a key variable in Cox proportional hazards model analysis. The survival curve showed that more international flights departed earlier than scheduled or with minimal delay than domestic flights. However, international flights tended to have more long-term delays. The log-rank test indicated that international flights had a wider distribution of delay times than domestic flights. In the Cox proportional hazards analysis, under the condition in which the actual flight turnaround time was less than 120 min, the results indicated that the longer the actual turnaround buffer was, the less frequently the delays occurred. By using these analyses, we could numerically verify the actual delay trends in South Korea. The results can be used as fundamental resources for political and economic decision-making processes in the aviation industry. |
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Keywords: | Flight delay propagation Survival analysis Kaplan–Meier estimator Cox proportional hazards analysis |
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