Aviation Trends#
There are four international airports in Syria - Damascus International Airport (DAM), Aleppo International Airport (ALP), Bassel Al-Assad International Airport (LTK) and Qamishli International Airport (KAC). DAM and ALP are bigger than the other two.This notebook analyses trends of flights in DAM, ALP and LTK airports.
Data#
The dataset used for this update is from Aviation Stack.This data is purchased through their API subscription. The data was validated in Lebanon using FlightRadar and the resulting flight details were a close match although not entirely identical. The validation exercise for Syria is still ongoing.
Define a function to get a range of dates for the desirable date range
The following dates are not available in the data. The reasons are unknown.: DatetimeIndex(['2024-01-28', '2024-01-29', '2024-01-30', '2024-04-29',
'2024-04-30', '2024-06-07', '2024-06-08', '2024-06-09'],
dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq=None)
Analysing Number of Departures from Beirut International Airport in 2024#
Data is available from 2024-01-01 00:00:00 to 2024-10-15 00:00:00
Flight Status Legend#
Scheduled: A flight that we have a schedule or flight plan for that hasn’t departed or has been canceled.
Active: A flight that either left the gate or the runway and is on its way to its destination.
Landed or Arrived: A flight that landed on the runway or arrived at the gate at the destination.
Canceled: A flight that one or more data sources have indicated is canceled.
Redirected: The flight is being redirected to another airport.
Diverted: A flight that has landed or arrived at the gate of an airport where it wasn’t scheduled to arrive.
Unknown: We were unable to detect the final arrival status.
Findings#
Findings#
Findings#
Cross verifying AviationStack with FlightRadar data for 14th October shows one missing flight to Moscow and an additional flight to KWI in the early hours. Data Lab team to conduct further validation exercises to understand this discrepancy.