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Friday, August 29, 2003

I gathered some airport statistics from Airports Council International, and drew up some charts which I found interesting. The first is a graph of total passenger activity by airport, (ranked in descending 2000 order) and the second is the percentage change thereof by year, and also for the whole timeframe (2000-2002). US airports with heavy Asian traffic suffered the most (LAX, SFO, MSP) during this period, with other domestic hubs also faring poorly. Airports with the highest increases were located mainly in Asia and Europe (HND, AMS, MAD, HKG, BKK). As the first chart shows, there's been a global slowdown over the past few years.

  

Posted by morland @ 03:32 PM

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One word: labels. X-axis, Y-axis, Title. Come on morland. Bob Parks, John Nye, Steve Fazzari...how would they react? Shame.

What is "total passenger activity" supposed to mean? Urinary activity, terrorist activity? Do you mean number of passengers in transit per period? Define you terms.

And finally in response to , "[I] drew up some charts which I found interesting." Are the charts really interesting, or is it the information you infer or derive from the charts that lights up your inquisitive mind? If so, why? To what conclusion do you push your reader? I have no clue how to interpret this crap apart from the obvious: "Chart Wizard! Wow, line graphs! Neat!"

I apologize if I come off as harsh, but I expect much from fellow wustl econ fellows.

Posted by: Al on September 1, 2003 06:44 PM

If you want, i can send some airline traffic data by geographic entity for the past twenty years...let me know post haste

Posted by: bobbo on September 2, 2003 09:50 AM

Sorry for being sloppy, but I was in a hurry at work.

The x axis is Airport name, the y axis for the first chart is total passenger activity (defined below) and for the second chart is percent change.

As defined by ACI,
"Total Passengers: Arriving + departing passengers + direct transit passengers counted once. "

In regards to interesting conclusions, I left it up to the reader to make inferences this time.

Sus - let's talk about airport data "offline".

Speaking of "offline", have you guys seen "Business Buzzword Bingo"?

http://isd.usc.edu/~karl/Bingo/

Posted by: morland on September 2, 2003 10:46 AM

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