flights

Flight turbulence on the Singapore Airlines flight, visually explained

Infographics / flights, Reuters, Singapore Airlines, turbulence

Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight experienced turbulence that led to one person…
Passenger planes flying too close

Infographics / flights, New York Times

Sometimes passenger planes get a little too close to each other on takeoff…
A year of flight paths, for someone with an unlimited pass

Maps / flights, Tom Stuker, United, Washington Post

United Airlines sold a lifetime unlimited pass in 1990 for $290,000. Tom Stuker…
Southwest flight cancellations

Statistical Visualization / CNN, flights, Southwest

There were a lot of flight cancellations this week, but Southwest Airlines is…
Finding illegal airstrips in Brazil

Maps / airstrip, flights, mining, New York Times

Using a combination of satellite imagery, crowdsourced databases, and analyses, The New York…
Shifting flight paths for wealthy Russians

Maps / flights, New York Times, Russia, wealth

For The New York Times, Pablo Robles, Anton Troianovski, and Agnes Chang mapped…
Empty Ukrainian airspace

Maps / flights, invasion, Reuters, Russia, Ukraine

As you would imagine, Ukrainian airspace looks empty right now. Reuters mapped flights…
Rerouted flights to avoid Russian airspace

Maps / Bloomberg, flights, Russia

Many countries have banned Russian aircraft from entering their airspace. Russian in turn…
When the world shut down, seen through global flights

Maps / coronavirus, flights, Washington Post

Lauren Tierney and William Neff for The Washington Post used a rotating globe…
Canceled flights due to coronavirus

Maps / China, coronavirus, flights, New York Times

With an animated side-by-side map, The New York Times shows canceled flights in…
Mapping the cheapest flights to everywhere, given your location

Maps / flights, prices

Sometimes you really do need to get away. Escape, part search engine and…
Falling ticket prices for longer flights

Infographics / Economist, flights, pricing

Based on data from Expedia, this is an interesting one from The Economist.…
Aviation tracker with depth

Maps / flights

I’ve grown bored of maps that show commuter traffic, but for whatever reason,…
Machine learning to find spy planes

Statistics / BuzzFeed, flights, machine learning

Last year, BuzzFeed News went looking for surveillance flight paths from the FBI…
Economics of airline class

Statistics / flights, money

Wendover Productions explains basic economics of airline classes. The passengers in first class…
Composite photos of airplanes in flight

Data Art / compositing, flights, photography

Photographer Mike Kelley visited airports around the world, took pictures of airplanes leaving,…
Air transportation network

Network Visualization / airport, flights

Flight pattern maps are fun to look at and reveal the complexity of…
Thanksgiving flight patterns

Maps / flights, New York Times, Thanksgiving

Millions of Americans will fly home this Thanksgiving weekend. (Based on my morning…
Possible float routes for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Maps / flights, New York Times

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down a year ago, and with recently found…
Find the fastest flight between airports

Infographics / FiveThirtyEight, flights, travel

Flight arrival and departure times are often thought of in terms of “on…

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