Assignment 3

Research Question:
This study proposes to rank domestic flight carriers in the United States based on
the percentage of each carriers total flights that arrived on time (before scheduled
time or on scheduled time is to be considered as timely arrival) in Jan 2016. The
study is also interested in finding the major reasons causing late arrival for each
flight carrier.

Data:
The dataset is at: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?
Table_ID=236&DB_Short_Name=On-Time
Properties:
Data Type- ASCII/Text
Size- 784 KB
Type- CSV file
Dataset Information: Screenshot of Flight web page

The Code book for the dataset is available at:

http://www.transtats.bts.gov/TableInfo.asp?Table_ID=236