Data Analysis on Dubai International Airport Flights
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Dubai International Airport is the busiest airport of the year! Is it a blessing or a curse?
As people might think that a busy airport and passengers traffic is a good sign about the country, sometimes the case is different. In Dubai, data shows the passengers traffic caused a lot of problems like flights delays, flights cancellations, passengers missing flights..etc. The questions here are: Is it possible to avoid these problems? Do airlines and flight schedules have impact on that?
A flight booking scraping project of Kayak.com was done to analyse the flights arriving to Dubai from 10 other busy airports in the world over a whole month (March 2018). The main target of the project is to know the main factors that are affecting the traffic and if there is a solution for that.
The Data Scraped
www.Kayak.com is a flight booking site that provides the user all the flights options he can have on a certain date and to a specific location. In this project, since it is about analyzing the traffic in Dubai International Airport, the destination was fixed to DXB (Dubai International Airport). As for the Departure, it was changed frequently to get the flights coming from 10 different airports which are: London(LHR), USA(ALT), Thailand(BKK), Singapore(SIN), Germany(FRA), Paris(CDG), Seoul(ICN), Hong Kong(HKG), Amsterdam(AMS), Taiwan(TPE). For each of these airports, the flights information gathered was from March 1, 2018 till March 31, 2018.
Two data sets were considered, the first one is for the total number of flights coming from each airport to Dubai through out the month and it consists of 311 rows. As for the second one, it was the details of each flight and it consists of 26,429 rows.
First Data Set Sample for first 5 rows
| Departure | Arrival | Total Number of Flights | Day (March 2018) |
| London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | 453 | 1 |
| London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | 522 | 2 |
| London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | 560 | 3 |
| London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | 525 | 4 |
| London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | 566 | 5 |
Second Data Set Sample for first 5 rows
| One-way | Departure Airport | Arrival Airport | Departure date | Class | Airlines | Departure Airport code |
| One-way | London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | Thu 3/1 | Economy | Multiple Airlines | LHR |
| One-way | London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | Thu 3/1 | Economy | Multiple Airlines | LHR |
| One-way | London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | Thu 3/1 | Economy | Multiple Airlines | LHR |
| One-way | London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | Thu 3/1 | Economy | Multiple Airlines | LHR |
| One-way | London (LHR) | Dubai (DXB) | Thu 3/1 | Economy | Multiple Airlines | LHR |
| Departure Time | Arrival Airport code | Arrival Time | Number of extra days | Total Flight Duration | StopOvers | Offer Website | Price |
| 8:25 PM | DXB (+2) | 3:05 AM | 0 | 26h 40m | BCN, SAW | Kiwi.com | $337 |
| 9:45 AM | DXB (+1) | 3:05 AM | (+1) | 13h 20m | CGN, SAW | Kiwi.com | $343 |
| 6:40 AM | DXB (+1) | 12:50 AM | (+1) | 14h 10m | ARN | Kiwi.com | $352 |
| 10:20 AM | DXB (+1) | 3:00 AM | (+1) | 12h 40m | OSL, HEL | Kiwi.com | $382 |
| 8:05 AM | DXB (+1) | 3:05 AM | (+1) | 15h 00m | DUS, SAW | Kiwi.com | $389 |
Data Visualization and Analysis
The following graphs will answer the following questions:
1. From which airport most of the flights are coming to Dubai?
This graph shows that the highest number of flights arriving to Dubai is from London.
2. In what days in March most of the flights come to Dubai?
This graph shows that the total number of flights coming to Dubai in March areon March 16 and March 30.
3. How does the number of flights that are coming from London to Dubai vary during the month? Is London always having the highest number of flights going to Dubai during the month?
From these two visuals and the previous one, it shows that most of the flights arrive in the following days: 8, 15, 16, 27, 30.
The data from these visualizations is filtered. Now, the analysis is applied on flights going to Dubai from London and mainly in the mentioned days.
4. At what time of the day, the airport is the busiest because of the number of flights?
This graph shows that flights coming from London on the busy days are mainly arriving at night (around 4 am and at 10 pm).
5. Does the airline type affect that?
This visualization shows that the airlines that have the highest trips to Dubai are : Alitalia, Etihad Airways, and Multiple Airlines.
This graph shows the variation of total number of flight trips using Alitalia, Etihad Airways, and Multiple Airlines through out the day.
Conclusion
One of the clear things is that the airlines with high number of trips to Dubai (Alitalia, Etihad Airways, and Multiple Airlines) arrive at the same time to DXB(around 4 am and at 10 pm). The solution is that these airlines have different arrival times to DXB during the day. This can be applied depending on the airlines schedules to find the alternative timings that are good for all airlines. In a later stage, more analysis can be done to different airlines, airports and timings for more results.
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